2nd Week

Wait...has it only been 2 weeks?  Actually, this past week went by quickly.  We really are enjoying our work in the office.  Marc has a hard time getting things done because missionaries are constantly stopping by to talk.  We love it!  they treat us like their long-lost grandparents.

Friday I had to help feed 40 missionaries for a Zone Leader meeting.  That part was easy after years of pot lucks and church dinners.  I told Marc, "It's just Relief Society stuff,  I can do this."  I find myself saying less and less, "I can do hard things" (bless the person who gave that lesson in Relief Society before we left) and more and more saying, "this is fun."  We especially love that we get to live a whole different life for 2 years.  Marc still says "I can do hard things" a couple of times a day.  His job is much harder than mine.  Whenever his phone rings he hopes it isn't a missionary calling to say they've had an accident.

Also, Friday, we did our first Activity Day.  We had a "record turn out" of 6 kids--2 Hispanic, 2 Chinese, and 2 Korean.  We are told there are usually only 3 that come.  We think the curiousity got the better of them.  They wanted to see the 2 new old missionaries.  It went well, thanks to ideas from my family and friends, and the kids were engaged the whole time.  We love them already.

Yesterday we braved the subway and did a dry run to Lincoln Center in Manhattan.  In a couple of weeks we will be responsible for taking 12 missionaries to the temple and have been given instructions not to lose anyone.  Well, we lost ourselves on the dry run and never made it. Our app put us on a train that didn't stop there.  Although we did get to go to Times Square and had ourselves a little adventure.

Had to check the background to make sure there was nothing objectionable.