It has been a wonderful day.  We slept in and even took a nap in the afternoon after shopping, fueling both the car and the truck and making a Thursday reservation at the RV park. Today is Doyle's birthday and his request was to have sushi for dinner.  That was an easy request to fill!!  We went to the Wild Ginger not too far from the hotel..it was very nice and the food was very good.  Dessert was a chocolate dipped cone from McDonalds.

The photo is a picture of all our group.  From the left, the Chipman's, the Green's, us and the Diehl's.  We loved our group!!! We have been so blessed to get to know them. What a wonderful week we have had!  Friday was very hard and very emotional as we said goodbye to the Diehl's who left for Minneapolis.  What a delight they were to know.  They live in Montana and are rancher/farmers there.  Sister Diehl was such a wonderful lady.  We had several very touching conversations with her.  The Green's are going to France.  What an exciting adventure that will be. The Chipman's will be serving a CES mission at Southern Virginia University.

One of our teachers, return missionary Sister Reese.

 
We are pointing to South Carolina, where we will serve, on the big map in the main hall of the Wilford Woodruff Administration Building.

Our first week is finished.  It has been a wonderful treasure to add to the scrapbook of our lives.
Now we know firsthand some of the experiences of the young missionaries as they navigate the MTC and learn the teaching tools they will need.  What wonderful young people with such great enthusiasm! Our second week will be focused on the computers and training for financial forms and paperwork.  Final day will be Thursday.  We'll hit the road again on Friday.  Doyle has all of our stops mapped out at about 300 miles per day.