HOT HOT HOT

Here we are in St. George with Rick and his family. They got a condo and treated us since thye 22nd! We saw Sound of Music and Les Miz at Tuachan and Les Miz was fantastic. It's interesting to see the same performers play different parts in the two shows. Janae had a hard time with Jean Valjean because she says he has a face just like her picture of Christ at home!!!! And I guess he kinda did!!!!

Of course our mission call came Wednesday while we were down here as we thought it would. Scott has a key to our house so we left the mail key there and on his way home from work he stopped by. So we sat here with Rick's family and Janae's sister and her family waiting and waiting and waiting---OH! So patiently---that isn't spelled right!!! FINALLY he called and the first thing he said was we had to be in the MTC on Sept 1. That's pretty soon. Then he said we were going to HIS hometown. I always thought Riverton was his home town. Then we thought St. Louis, as that's where he went on his mission. Then it hit----Boston---where he was born, where Dick was baptized. We were there from 1963-1965 while the Air Force sent him to Harvard Business School. It was a very fun time in our life!! It immediately answered lots of questions regarding how, when, what, why....but we all went out dinner.

We feel like it makes our life much simpler, to stay in the states. Scott read that our assignment would be as Welfare Services Missionaries with other assignments as the mission President feels inclined!! THAT leaves a lot of play room!!! We really don't know what all that means but I guess we'll find out. Next step is to get home tomorrow, read the paperwork, send in our acceptance and then wait for a packet from the mission.

You'll all invited to plan a trip back east. Better wait til we find out what our living situation will be before we offer a place to stay!!

We're looking forward to this next week when Rick's family will be with us all week, then Dan's family comes on Wednesday, we'll do birthday parties for Lauren, Taylor, Brianna, Steve and Kaden, go to Lagoon, go ride the Alpine slide in Park City, have Austin's baptism, go see High School Musical, at the Capitol Theater and just enjoy having every one around. Mindy and family are in Disneyland this week and will be home tomorrow. Then it's clean out the house so Steve and Catrina can move in while we're gone and get ready. So much to do but so much we don't know yet. Somehow it's not real yet!! But I guess that will change rapidly!!!

Enjoy reading ALL your blogs---tell Bear he is little to us!!!