We are now just 7 days away from when we enter the MTC.  We had our "farewell" in our ward and all of our children (Andy & Cretia, Leslie and Coy, Emma and Rich, Jamie and Gaylen, Cami and Nate, Adam) and grandchildren, (Dakota, Bodhi, Riley, MacKenzie, Ellie, Ashton, Casey, Eli and Ava) were there; Kelsey's sister and brother-in-law - Sandra and Don were there; Kelsey's uncle from Florida - Darrell and Nancy were there; my cousins daughters- Janeal and Rebecca, and daughter in-law Melissa were there and Yvette, Shawna and Lincoln were there from work.  It was so nice of everyone to come.  Emma, Rich, Tegan and Brian and baby Beckett flew in from San Francisco and Darrell and Nancy were in Utah visiting family.  After sacrament meeting, we met at Cami's for a lunch before Emma had to fly home.  We had a great weekend and hated to see Emma and Rich leave.

We have enjoyed all the time we could with family and you will see a video that Kenzie and Ellie put together yesterday.  They sang it to us at the park last night and Cami posted it on this blog - show make sure you watch it.  It is a farewell to Grandma and Grandpa.  So cute!

We finished reading the Book of Mormon together.  It took us 1 month and 26 days!  We enjoyed reading the scriptures together and read it at the park or in Andy's beautiful backyard.  After reading the Book of Mormon again, we started reading Preach My Gospel and only have about 100 pages left to read in that and we will have that done before we enter the MTC.

This last Sunday we wanted to go to the Spoken Word on Temple Square and decided to ask Kenzie and Ellie if they wanted to go. Ellie just turned 8 and you have to be 8 to go.  Kenzie's primary has a CTR bear that they give to families and ask that the CTR bear experience good things with the families.  Well last weekend the McAffee family had the bear. So Leslie and Kenzie thought it would be fun for the CTR bear to experience Temple Square and have a field trip.  So, he went with us.  When we arrived at the parking lot of the Conference Center, Ellie said, "I sure hope they don't think that I am 3 years old!"  Well, the first senior missionary that we saw told us where the theatre was and we said we were going to the broadcast and she said that children under 8 can't go to the broadcast.  We told her that Ellie was baptized 2 months ago and she is 8.  The next senior missionary told us the same thing - and 2 more missionaries told us the same thing.  We thought that was funny. Ellie ended up being right! Then one missionary asked us about the CTR bear and we told her what Kenzie's primary does and she thought that was a wonderful idea!  Here are pictures of us at Temple Square with the bear.  The broadcast was wonderful and the girls loved it.  It was a wonderful experience for us and them.  And the primary said that was the first field trip for the CTR bear!