General Conference weekend!
We picked up Elijah on Saturday night and then headed to the Provo Creamery. Fortunately for us, Elijah's friends had also all just arrived there. Unfortunately for him, we asked Sybil to please call Elijah "dad" in front of his friends. She didn't rise to the occasion, but he got her back anyway: Elijah told Sybil that all food is 100% likely to contain fecal matter. She didn't eat breakfast the next morning and barely touched her lunch.
Elijah wanted to shake hands with the GA with whom he had a personal scripture study session in Puerto Rico. Elijah was impressed with his extensive cross-references and that they spent 45 minutes on one verse. They snapped a pic in the GA lunchroom after conference.
We attended conference with the youth who committed to finishing the Book of Mormon.
They got a tour of missionary headquarters:
On Saturday night, Elijah went to a mission reunion; I shadowed Lex for a telemedicine shift, and the rest of the group went for a hike and got chocolates at the Hatch Family store.
The tween who hates selfies:
Iris gives weekly lectures to her FFA club on types of cheeses in preparation for the state competition in the Spring. She will go to nationals next month.
Elijah and David are in Nola for a Saints game.
They visited lots of family: Macu and Daniel, Aunt Ruthie, and the abuelos:
David's headed to NYC for the rest of the week and today I got official notice that I will start my job in one week. My original goal was to study like a madwoman in order to brush up on my clinical skills, but life gets so dang busy: relief society visits, fixing cars, attending cross-country meets, kids' doctor/dental visits...just life.
3 Spanish updates:
- Claire experiences anti-American sentiment on a daily basis.
- She was told a sure-fire way to identify a tourist in Spain: they are the only ones who eat while walking.
- I was severely disturbed that Claire repeatedly said, "GraTHias." Spain has worn on her!
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