Here is our little district group picture with our instructor. He is a history major with asperations as a lawyer. The people on the left are going to Mongolia, the ones on the right of us are going to Chile, and the people on the right to Omaha, Nebraska.
This is our intire class of senior missionaries. Three couples are going to Russia, three others to LDS vistor centers. The shortest Sister in the front is going to Macon Georgia and is from Germany. 
Here are some of our instructors. It is beautiful to see what a spirit they bring with them. The one is the middle has been a member 5 years and went to Houston, Tx. The one closest went to Russia. Sorry I didn't get any of the Sister instructors. They were amazing and beautiful. The one most impressive was a Sister from Hawaii who was half Hawian and Tongan.
We had the pleasure of walking up the hill to the Provo temple three times. On Thursday we were able to take in a session at 6:00pm. We have just finished our training at the MTC after just 5 days. We will wait until tomorrow at 1:30 pm to take the shuttle to the airport and be off at 5:00 pm. We fly to Los Angeles where we catch a New Zealand Air flight at 9:30 pm. It will be a 12 ¾ hour flight. Our travel will take us over the international date line so I will miss Sunday and Fathers Day completely.
It has been a wonderful experience here to see that we really can teach and bear testimony. Our young returned missionary instructors have been so good and we so much enjoy seeing the Elders and Sisters. There are 1700 of them this week and next week they expect there will 2,200. They open doors for us and even on occasion take our trays to the bussing station. We are going to miss their exemplary looks, character, and enthusiasm. One evening we were doing our laundry and four Elders came up to us and began a conversation. Before they left they all wanted to bear their testimonies. It was great. They come here from all corners of the world. It is so fun to see South Americans coming to teach in the US, and Americans learning Spanish and Portuguese to teach in South America. The same is true everywhere.
We see in the cafeteria each day two identical twin sisters from Guatemala, dressing and putting up their hair exactly alike each day. They will be going to two different missions in the US. One Elder from Korea is going is going to California to teach in Spanish. I do have a question about that. Will he role his L’s since they don’t have an R in their vocabulary. It is inspiring to see what great strength this gives the church to have so many young people give up these years to serve the Lord. Another strength is the multiple languages we will have in the church.
