Provo Temple Week

Well everyone, again a great week. We arrived back in at the MTC Monday morning just in time for breakfast and then to the temple for a three and one-half days there. It was been really fun. Our time is short, we leave tomorrow for Morgan and our final packing experience before we leave.

This picture is of our temple training group this week. They are a wonderful "bunch" of people and we are going to miss them. Elder and Sister Hammond have been our hosts this week and they have been fantastic.

Plenty of food still. Lunch at the temple has been exceptionaly great, probably because it is different than the MTC food.

Week One is Over

Well, as you can see from the picture we have been to the MTC this week. It was a fantastic week and so well-planned and carried out by the MTC leadership. From the get-go it was a great experience meeting with all the senior couples, seeing all the young missionaries, and many other things that impressed us. The young returned missionary teachers were very outstanding and the respect that is shown the senior missionaries is heart-warming.

We learned to teach from Teach My Gospel and use many of the concepts taught from there. Certainly we were out of our comfort zone, but it was good for us old dudes and we did learn a bunch. Tuesday evening at the weekly devotional, Elder Russell M. Nelson spoke to us about the Book of Mormon and it was great to hear him about two rows back from the pulpit.

Lynne and I are still trying to figure out how they feed so many people in the MTC everyday. We certainly didn't go hungry the whole time we were there. Our sleeping accommodations were great also-they put us up in the Marriot Hotel downtown Provo.

One of the highlights for me this week was that Lynne bore her testimony in Finnish last night at a multi-language testimony meeting. Our Finnish teacher met with us three times this past week and spent all his time working with Lynne. He is a great young man with a super spirit and speaks great Finnish.

All in all, the week at the MTC was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it has to be experienced to know what it is like. Next week we spend in the Provo Temple.

Two Days Before the MTC

Well, it is only two days before the MTC and we are almost ready. We have just about everything ready for us to leave the house and turn everything over to Becca and Phill. We have had a really busy schedule lately but it has been a wonderful past week with a great Wiscombe Family reunion last Saturday in Porterville. We spoke in church Sunday and later had a number of folks over to the home after. It was a great day. This past Tuesday friends in the neighborhood gave us a fun going away party at Mynon Deru's home. All the children and grandchildren have been during the past several weeks and it has been fun to have them all around.

We are getting ready!

Well, it is almost zero hour for us before we go into the MTC on 19 Sept. We have been really busy getting ready for our mission with buying clothes and taking language lessons, let alone trying to get our home in some type of condition so Becca and Phill can take over. I am still trying to figure out what to do with all our cars and trucks, but I am sure they will be taken care of. Hopefully we can keep this blog up todate during our mission and let you all know what is going on in Finland.