This morning I had an unusual opportunity to serve. The missionaries were being visited by a traveling General Authority and needed a wireless microphone set up. Heavenly Father has blessed me with some flexibility in my work schedule so I was able to go and help them out.
This evening we had the special treat of going to see the lights around the Mesa Temple. We also got to see the Roche family and Matt, Lucy and Alex. Sharon wasn't feeling well and stayed home.
For the most part this was a fun occasion. We learned that getting there at 6:15 allows you to beat the crowd and find good parking.
Joseph enjoyed the lights and the chance to run around. He made me nervous that he would get lost but he did not.
Lauren acted like a good big sister for cousin Alex and kept him always in sight.
David helped to light the tree you see here in red when the troop did service a month ago.
The other lessons we learned were to coordinate plans ahead of time and designate a place to go if you get separated. Rebecca was briefly separated from the group and we didn't know it because the whole group got fragmented. Happily she quickly found Heather and we all got back together. It was a scary moment though. We'll want to make sure we learn our lessons before we go on an outing like this again. This is not I lesson I want to have to repeat the hard way.
When we were grad students at BYU we got tickets for the four of us (Jon, Kel, Gramma and me) in the card section. Our fun turned to panic after the game when we couldn't find the kids. We had no plans for such a thing. They actually left the stadium and walked with a couple of kids to their nearby house. Long story--when we finally got back together we made a plan "When separated Stay Put and tell an adult"
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