The MTC: Our adventure begins

As we pulled out of the driveway Rosemary had Dave stop for a "Canon" moment before heading up the freeway and on to Provo; destination M T C . As we neared we realized something was dramatically wrong with our car. Limping into Provo to pick up the requested plaques for the Mission Home in Romania we stopped at the downtown location and were met with sounds and smells that indicate trouble. Satan strikes again! Boy he has been busy lately! As we had been promised, one of the "angels" was not far off. Our son-in-law Ian was not 5 minutes away! He came, loaded our 6 big suitcases and ushered us off to a transmission shop just 4 blocks away. Okay we now have no car....... but he delivered us to the Worthington's (Rosemary's sister) who took care of us for the weekend and delivered us to the much anticipated MTC. All you have heard about that place is true! What a spirit and how inspiring to see 34 senior couples in our group and 2700 junior missionaries getting ready to leave for places afar. And places afar it was as we listened to the places our "group" of seniors were going. Siberia, Slovakia, South Africa, Poland, Spain, Peru, Chezk Republic, Romania, Taiwan, Finland and more......

Our days were inspiring, informative and the food was pretty good as well. We put in long days as we had 2 hours of language from 6-8 each evening on top of a full day of training and inspiration from great leaders and general authorities. The climax came on Friday Evening when we had our testimony meeting listening to testimonies spoken in the tongue of the country the missionaries were headed. Beautiful and humbling to see what the Lord can to with us "senior missionaries!" Marie and Ian picked us up on Friday evening and we spent Saturday running errands, visiting with friends and family and having Dave's "last supper" at IN AND OUT BURGER.

Monday morning we will give up our cell phones on the way to the airport and be "on our own" in the Lord's care to some place in Romania via Paris, France.

So, dear friends until we get internet service in Romania ...... Lada verdera, Iubim