Week 65
Today was our last Sunday dinner with Elder Riffenburg and Sister Smith.  He's going home and she's being transferred to Cleveland (OK, not OH).  Sister Allred and Elder Rounds are both going to be training missionaries straight from the MTC, so it will be fun to meet them when they get here on Wednesday.

Good-bye to Elder Riffenburg and Sister Smith

Lately we've been seeing a lot more hawks than usual, and for some reason I really love these birds of prey.  One was sitting on a car in our parking lot when we left yesterday!

Hunting for mice

In addition to our cardinals and jays, we've spotted a pretty woodpecker near our apartment several mornings.

Of course we enjoyed our classes this week--teaching institute has been a wonderful experience for us.  Our days are numbered, however.  Three months from today we head back to Utah.  We'll teach our last two classes on Thursday, May 4th, and leave on Friday, the 5th.

Friday we went to the temple with Heidi again.  Her mom was going to come down to be sealed to her parents, but an aunt got really ill on Thursday, so she stayed with her in Kansas City.  We went ahead with the sealing of Heidi's grandparents to each other, and it was a very special experience. Now we'll just see when her mom can come down to complete her sealing to them.   We had not realized what a big part the temple would play in our mission, but we're so grateful it has.