We finished our first week at the Temple, working Tuesday through Saturday; we were on the afternoon shift - starting at 2:20 for prayer meeting and beginning our shift at 2:50 and working until 9:00 or Friday night until 10:00.  Today, Tuesday, July 10th, we started the AM shift having prayer meeting at 9:10 a.m. and working until 3:00.  The morning shift goes quicker and has more people attending.  We are getting used to finding our way around the Temple - still getting a little confused, but not all the time in a state of confusion!

We have Mondays off so we decided to try taking the bus to East Grinstead which is about 7 miles away.  They have the grocery stores and other small stores - such as the "pound store" which is equivalent to our dollar store - only their store is more organized.  The stops outside the Temple gate twice a day - 6:45 a.m. and 1:10 p.m.  We caught the 1:10 bus - it cost us 4.90 pounds each for a round trip ticket.  Each pound is equivalent to 1.30 or thereabouts. It took 20 minutes to get to East Grinstead.  We were the only ones on the bus going and coming back.  We walked through every store for 3 hours and then sat at the bus stop for an hour.  We returned at 5:45.  We were very tired by time we got home.

There is a couple here, the Lamoreaux's from Orem.  They have 14 children and this is their 7th mission!  They sold their home and they keep going on missions.  They've been to Romania, Mongolia, Samoa, Nova Scotia and some I can't remember.  They go home for 2 months staying with their kids until they tire of them and then on to another child!  They usually apply while they are still on their mission but this time they have to go home for physicals.  They were in our Stake when we were in the Orem Stake and Gene Gibbons was our Stake President.  Small world.