We've had a couple of really neat experiences this weekend. The first was that Jer and Sam were invited to go on splits with the missionaries. The slow cooker took a couple extra hours with our dinner so they weren't able to eat before they left and I randomly decided to cook 5 cups of rice instead of our usual 3. It turned out that the Elders hadn't had dinner yet and they were able to eat with us. They are cute young men and one of them had all the same interests as Sam and Jer. The spirit leads even when we don't know it is.
The next thing was that we had organized a temple weekend with McKay and Sophie's family. We drove up for a friday night temple baptism appointment at the Syracuse temple, then we played games and spent the night. In the morning, we had pancakes and drove to Logan for baptisms in that temple. A papusa lunch and the adults went to do an Endownment session while the kids drove back to McKay's. Then we watched a soccer World cup game (England and France) and played pickleball. (I took a nap). Altogether, we did 110 baptisms, 114 confirmations, 4 endownments..... and it was neat to be together. The officiator in our session was very obviously special needs, but he did his calling well and the prayer he gave was down to earth and beautiful. We were going to try to stop in at Sharon's, but I didn't want to storm her house with all of us right after her foot surgery. One of the things that comes to the forefront when you do the same ordinances in a new temple verses an old one is the fact that it is the same ordinances. Syracuse was quieter and Logan was more intimate. Both were good.
