Still getting ready

April 25, 2011

Today we met for the first day of training as the Challenge Course missionaries. The training will last several weeks. We studied the rules and proceedures as an overview today. Then we went into Provo to get fitted for our harnesses. We will spend most of the day tied to ropes once the campers arrive so it is important these harnesses fit well.

Yesterday was Easter Sunday. Our first Easter as missionaries and the first Sunday meeting as our own ward group. In between Sacrament and Sunday School, the Stake President called Dale to be in the High Priest Group leadership. He will serve as the secretary. All the rest of the group are 2nd year missionaries. He is the greenie. They went into priesthood meeting, were set apart, and conducted the meeting. Isn't it amazing that the church organization can make order out of chaos immediately. The church is true. Now this group will organize our mission into Districts through which all our assignments will come. There is no such thing as VT and Home teaching. The Districts will be how we will be organized as far as church assignments and teaching. It will be interesting to see how all this works.

This weekend was our ATV training. I learned how to make sharp turns without tipping over. I drove winding around the cones without tipping the cones over. I drove over logs. (Actually I failed this part and had to do it again. I went too slow and the log just rolled in front of the tires pushing them along instead of going over them.) I did pass....finally.