Monday - The roads opened so we could leave Martin's Cove and go "home" to Sixth Crossing. It was still miserable weather so everyone was asked to stay in the Missionary Village and spend our time studying the lives of the people of the Willie Company. We played pioneer games to help us with learning our stories for FHE. And just a note from home: our Brooke and Conner have both decided that reading is fun and they are taking off with that new skill.
Tuesday - was our P-day and the Woodbury's came with us. We went to Riverton and did some shopping before going to a presentation at the Riverton Stake Center by Sister Phister who is the Stake Presidents wife. The Riverton Stake has a room dedicated to the Willie Company and what is called the second rescue. They had a huge part in purchasing the properties of Sixth Crossing and Rock Creek Hollow for the church. The pictures ended up in last weeks blog so take a look at those again. We went on a little site seeing down in Lander at a place called the Sinks. The sinks is a place that the river goes into the side of the mountain and doesn't resurface for a quarter of a mile and then it comes up in a deep pool that was filled with giant trout.
Wednesday - the weather is much better. We heard a quote that said -winter is not a season in Wyoming but an everyday possibility. We are finding that to be true. We worked on the 2 mile stretch of highway cleaning up trash in the morning for the adopt the Highway program. I worked in the office for the afternoon being trained in my new assignment as scheduler. Selby worked on the well at Martin's Cove. We saw slides on the historical sites in Wyoming in the evening.
Thursday - was a warm and beautiful day. We had the former trek director from 2004 here today. Selby and I were asked to take them in the mule around the trails. Brother Walker was the person that established the trails we use today and wanted to see how they were being used. He was happy to see how much has been accomplished. Selby and I both spent the afternoon doing yard work.
Friday - another nice day and yard work again.
Saturday - was another P-day, although we went to Casper to pick up a new generator for the camp. We also ran errands and I got to talk to all the kids. We love our "free" verizon phone. Casper is a fairly normal city, although we saw an amazing number of mobile homes on regular lots in the neighborhoods.
We had another game night for our date night at the trek center.
Sunday - What a difference in the weather, so warm and no wind. I got to teach young women all one of them, but she is a wonderful young lady and we had a great lesson together. Her parents are hired to manage the ranch and they spoke in Sacrament meeting. Sister Seeley is a professional singer and wrote a song for her talk. It is called "standing on the shoulders of giants". It was beautiful! The giants she referred to in the song were her ancestors that were in the Martin company that showed so much faith and strength amongst so much suffering. Her husband talked of the little things in his life that have strengthened his testimony of Jesus Christ as the savior of the world. The Meetings were very inspiring and touching. After our potluck dinner we went to a fireside put on by two representatives of the Church Education System's history department. Brother Anderson and Brother Utey did an amazing job in getting us to have a better perspective of the people, places and timing of the Wilie, Martin, Hodgette,and Hunt companies that we are studying for our upcoming treking groups. The purpose of all of this is to see in history the hand of God in peoples lives. We love the understanding we are gaining.
We miss family and friends but we are making so many friends here and feel a closeness to God as never before. We should all work on being as good of people as those that showed such faithfulness as the people in the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies. We love you all, Selby and Cathy
At the 3rd crossing of the sweet water river 
View of Split rock
Castle Rock
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