Well, it's been quite a week. Here's a brief overview of some things that happened:
-FHE at the Grandin Building: last Monday was the 182nd anniversary of the publication of the very first Book of Mormon. To celebrate, they had a mission-wide family night at the Grandin. There were like 500 people there; it was crazy (not a very big building). The senior couples all dressed up as people who played a role back in 1830, and people were able to go through and take tours where the senior missionaries recited parts in their role. I was asked to prepare one musical number and ended up having to sing for like 30 minutes... almost lost my voice. It was a good experience though. :)
-Grove tour: This morning, Bob (the man who takes care of the sacred grove) took the 4 of us in my apartment on a 3 1/2 hour tour of the sacred grove. he taught us all about the different kind of trees, and who owned what land, and the history of the grove. So cool! I love the sacred grove and feel so lucky to be able to be there so often. :)
-Training updates: Sis Aiello is learning very quickly. Miraculously so. And I am learning a lot as well. The language barrier is still hard for both of us, since missionaries have a lot more to learn than just the language, and it's frustrating sometimes, but we are both doing fairly well.
-Site shifts: We have been working at the sites 4 days a week now. Sis Aiello is learning the tours very quickly, and we are really enjoying it, especially now that it is spring break season and we have more guests :)
-General conference: AWESOME. We missed Sat afternoon because we were working a visitors center shift, but we will catch up. LOVED the talk on sacrifice by I think Elder Oaks (end of Sat morning session), and quite a few others.
-Proselyting time: Dwindling now that we are at the sites so often. Our investigators have been gone a lot, our appointments keep getting put off, and still we are very busy just because our time is so limited. I actually miss tracting, believe it or not.
Well, as always, the time goes too fast, so I think that will have to be it for this week.
Sister Schank
