Saving the Best for Last

I think this last day at the MTC was the best.  Every day was spectacular, yet there was just something about it.  We had three more hours of instruction on teaching young single adults.  We were given many wonderful resources to help us help them stay the course.  Most of the senior couples in our group are in our age range, and I believe we are all eager to get to help these wonderful young people find the happiness we have all experienced throughout our lifetimes.  The world seems so much more unsettling than it was when I was 20.

We had an hour instruction on Pathway, a great program which helps anyone anywhere who has a desire to start and finish college.  It is more focused than a normal college and far less expensive, and is more driven to help each student find work, as well as receive an education.  There were several couples who will do that for their missions, and they are all highly motivated to help as many people as they can to use Pathway.

We ate lunch in the cafeteria, conversing with several couples we have enjoyed getting to know.  Throughout the day, all of the couples we started with on September 9 departed for their missions.  We met a few new ones who started training Monday.  It is just a magnificent process.  Everything is so well run.  

We repacked all of our stuff, and checked out, somewhat wistfully.  It has been an intense week and a half, but it has also been a refreshing little bubble where we have been immersed in things spiritual, and honestly - it was a joy.

See the little sign on the door.  It says "We have left for our mission!"  The cleanup crews are everywhere...college students, who do a great job freshening everything.  But there is something a little woebegone about that sign.

We spent a fair amount of time with this cute couple, because they will be serving YSAs too.  Turns out that she went to Bountiful High School and graduated one year behind me!!!!

Lia, Eliza and Bekah came to pick us up.  Eliza had a surprise for us....her front top tooth came out!!!  She was elated. SK was good to make the official diagnosis - yes indeed, she had lost her front tooth.  We got to Lia's home around 6:30, enough time for me to spend a little time with the two little girls.  We colored and told stories.  It was difficult for Eliza to settle down to sleep, considering she had a very special note to the tooth fairy beside her little tooth container.  It instructed the fairy to please leave the tooth along with the reward.  We'll see if that tooth fairy will grant her wish.

One more time of redistributing stuff in all the large suitcases.  They are all overweight by a couple of pounds or more, and I am trying to simplify.  I know I'm burning through the brain cells, because I still have too much stuff.  I'll start more culling in the morning.  In the meantime, I will drift off to sleep dreaming of that peaceful and happy campus in Provo.

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