Week 4

This mission is great!  We miss everyone at home so much but the experience here is great.  We work a lot, we socialize, we are learning a ton about what happened to the people this place is honoring.  Monday was very cold again.  Selby thought being on top of a bluff in 40-50mph wind and 20 degrees not counting wind chill may have been the coldest he ever felt.  He fixed the repeater for the radios though.  
I was able to work in the kitchen cleaning and organizing, just my thing.  We enjoyed some getting to know you activities in the evening.  4 of our couples are from Canada and are the most delightful people.  So are the Americans .  We learned the square dancing that we will be having the Trekkers do.  We are a good group, everyone seems anxious to do well.  The next day we moved 43 log benches to a better location to create a new amphitheater . Yes it was freezing again.  Wednesday I went into town with another missionary to order food for a big training we are putting on April 25-26. I was happy to not be outside so much.  Selby helped build an inclosure for porta potties and is traveling all over the property doing jobs. ( we would guess the area is maybe 5 square miles that is included in Sixth Crossing).  Friday was our p-day (preparation day) and we are able to get reception when we go into town.  We went to Riverton.  We got to talk to several of you or at least texted you.  Sat we washed all the work trucks (8) and did paper work.  Our motto here is err on the side of kindness, and everyone has taken it to heart because everyone is so nice.   We went to church at Martin's Cove, it will be our regular place.  It is different listening to talks without drawing pictures and answering questions, but I'll just have to be patient.  Oh and the weather has finally gotten warm. It was 68 when we were driving home from Martin's Cove today.   We are seeing a different kind of beauty in this country side.

Here is a story that I heard this week and I loved it.
Whatever it takes.  Whatever it takes to get me safely home, whatever it takes to save the ones I love, whatever it takes to bring us so close to You nothing can get between us, that is what I pray for, Lord.  That's always a frightening prayer because when we pray it, we imagine all sorts of awful events coming into our lives to bring us closer to God.  Unfortunately, that is often whatever it takes because we tend not to look up until we're knocked down. The thing is, God already knows whatever it takes.  For Him, "what ever it takes" was the cross. That's the length He was willing to go for us to make it safely home.  He is willing to do whatever else it might take to bring us close to Him, to save us, not just for a better, longer life here but to save us for an unbelievably awesome eternal life.  
God would rather lose His son's life than for us to lose ours, and He would rather we lose our physical life than lose our eternal one.  He is willing to do whatever it takes.  

view of Sweetwater river

at training in Willie meadow

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