Temple Trip Mini-Reunion

In my last post, I mentioned that Palu, Godfrey, and I had arranged while at our mission reunion to go to the Salt Lake Temple together.  Last weekend, we went.  Palu, who I really should get used to calling Enna, is an early riser and Godfrey, aka Hayley, has little kids, so the latest I was able to push the session back to was 10:00 AM.  This may not seem really early, but I'm a little jealous of my Saturday mornings since I don't get to sleep in very often and I knew that we'd need at least an hour to actually get to the temple with extra time to get ready for the session, meaning I'd have to get up to shower and all about the same time I do for work.  This wasn't my version of the ideal, but I went along with it for the sake of the others.

Mission Reunion Joys and Woes

While Gerrit, Elisabeth, and Mom attended a concert on the Friday before Conference, I went up to Salt Lake for a mission reunion.  I went to a reunion about a year after I returned home, but this is the first one that has been held for my President since then, so I was very excited about seeing everyone.

Conference with Mom

Mom came to visit over Conference weekend recently.  She was here for about a week and we managed to get some different things in during that time.  A lot of the time was taken up by Conference, of course, and some of the other time was taken up sitting in the blasted traffic that always seems to exist around the point of the mountain.

Passport to Provo

Taking a selfie in the Google Fiber store was our first task

Still playing some catch-up.  A couple weeks ago, I had a great time participating with Gerrit and Elisabeth's family in Passport to Provo, which was an effort to break the world record for largest scavenger hunt.  The event was sponsored by a number of partners, most notably Google Fiber, Cotopaxi, and some downtown Provo association.  I hadn't heard anything about it until Elisabeth mentioned it when I went to babysit the kids the Fri before.  They were already all signed up thanks to her diligence, so when they invited me to join them, it was a pretty simple matter for me to register on their team last minute.  I'm really glad they told me about it, because I had a great time!