A New year- A New Experience

     We began moving back to the mountain on April 11th.  Our first surprise was that we had been moved to a different cabin!?!  We are no longer down by the lake, but are up by the Guest Services where you first come into camp.  We are also on the opposite side of the cabin- so- we are living life backwards.  It's so fun to try and figure out where the bathroom is in the middle of the night!

The view from our new digs

                 More pictures of our beloved lake

     We made two trips to move our stuff and got mostly settled in our new home. We attended several fun get-togethers in the evening with the other missionaries.  It's fun to see the missionaries we love, and meet the new missionaries we will be serving with.  
     We headed down on Saturday, after our interview with the managing directors. We went to g-kids games, spent the night at Robyn's and attended church with them on Sunday.

     Monday we started our MTC.  We rotated through several different workshops learning about the rules and guidelines, different areas that we might be called to serve in, and Tuesday we spent the day being spiritually fed by our leaders.  

Grounds Maintenance/Service Projects

Challenge Course

Lake

Lake

     We had dinner together up at camp on Monday night.  Tuesday the managing director's wives spoiled us with breakfast, lunch and dinner. Decorations were based on this years theme- Press Forward with a Steadfastness in Christ...

Monday, after dinner, we had our first "Marbles" game of the year!

                   We usually play on Sunday nights.

     Friday morning is the big moment..... that is when we find out what our assignment for the summer will be.  They announce it from the pulpit. We had  hoped to be back at the lake this year.  Imagine our surprise when they announce that we will be serving on the- 

Grounds Maintenance/Service Projects Team!!!  

This will be a new challenge for us.  The Elswood's will be our team leaders.  We LOVE them!  We will love working with them.  We have 5 couples on the team.  We know the Scotts from last year.  We are excited to get to know the others. We don't know a lot of the specifics of our new assignment.  We do know that I will be driving a dump truck?!?, and Granger will be using a chain saw!  We will get to work closely with the girls on service projects around the camp.