Sunday night and all is well here in Salt Lake City.  We have just finished another week and continue to be grateful for the opportunity to serve here and for our new friends we have made over the last couple of months.  Its refreshing to have so many friends that you can rely upon to help you out when needed and just to meet and greet them as often as you can.  Its also nice to be able to borrow things that you don't have here but need to use for a dinner such as an extra chair or a crock pot or potatoes and a roast in order to feed the young Missionaries.

We both had positive experiences on the British Floor this past week helping the guests that were here doing family research.  Its always brings a smile when you either able to help them or to hear about their successes with their own research.  We are feeling a little more confident and I am sure we will as time goes by.  It seems that each week brings a new group who have traveled from long distances to use the resources of the library.  In time we will feel more positive about our own skill levels, but in the meantime there are many other Missionaries in our zone that are willing to help us.  We also are starting to develop a relationship with our zone leaders and appreciate their patience with us, but more importantly to befriend us.  You can never have too many good friends.

In addition to going to the our assignments last week we also traveled to the Bountiful Temple and attended an Endowment Session there.  Its a very beautiful temple and we are glad to have had the means to go there.  We traveled back to Bountiful over the weekend to attend the reception of the daughter of our Financial Adviser, Mark McKell, from California.  Mark is connected to Lorene's family via two Sisters. You'll have to wait for her to get the connections correct.  We also discovered today that one of the Sister's in our Mission is as we figured out so far a third cousin to Lorene.  She has way too many relations here in the Mission.

We had a scare late last week when we heard that my adopted Mom, Sister Sharon Walker, here in the Mission was considering planning on getting released and returning home to Rigby, Idaho.  She is still recovering from here breast cancer surgery and this week marked the one year anniversary of her husband's death.  She is such a sweet lady and we all love her dearly.  We think she has made the decision to finish her Mission here in Salt Lake City. We just need to let her know of our love for her and support her as often as we can.  Its hard to watch her struggle so much.

Its almost time for the editor-in-chief to do what she does best, edit my work.  However, she does not point out my mistakes as much now days, rather she just makes the changes and sends the messages out.  Alas I have been given a reprieve.  The Editor is on her way to get her beauty rest and has ordered me to publish this post.