Sunday, September 9, 2012

One of the perks that senior missionaries have is being able to have family come see us or if they are close by we can go see them. On Saturday morning we went to a session at the beautiful Sacramento Temple and then we went onto Amy and Alph's house in Walnut Creek which is about 80 minutes away from us. It was their Stake Conference and Sophie sang a duet with another young lady in the Sunday morning session. She did a wonderful job! This past week we got to know more people in the branch here. We visited with some of the missionaries and workers at Deseret Industries which is similar to Goodwill but different in that it is operated by our church and the employees are trained in many job skills so they can go out into the job market and find better employment. We have some classes set up this coming week to teach Daily Dose english classes. We also hope to teach some classes at Deseret Industries during the month.

I found some photos that we have taken since we began our journey in the middle of August. Enjoy!

                                    Our Journey began with no room left in the car for us!!

                                           How can two old people have so much stuff!!

         In Wyoming, some of the original trails where the wagon trains and handcarts went through.

In Wyoming where people from the Oregon Trail wagons carved their initials in the limestone bluffs. Many were dated early 1800's.

 Statutes at Willy's Handcart crossing in Wyoming depicting the rescue of those caught in the winter storms  with so little to exist on.

                             At the MTC trying to decide where we are going on the big map.

     "Graduation Day" at the MTC (Missionary Training Center). Sherrie and I were two of the 50 senior missionaries that week.