This is NOT a retirement field...It's the mission field!

Hello You All... Friends and Family,
The language is getting easier! Bet you could tell with our greeting! We anticipated that our time would be a little more flexible, and we might have a "P" (preparation) day to keep up a weekly blog site. However, this week was fairly typical, which means we were teaching or preparing to teach from 8:00am to 2:00pm Mon.-Thurs. at the Institute. Then on Fridays, we have training and administrative meetings with our director, Bro. Bills from 10:00 to 12:30. That is after we have picked up a donated grocery basket from a local market at 9:00am and delivered it to the Institute. Most days between 2:00 and 5:00, we are either buying food for the Wednesday lunches, visiting less active students, or picking up the sister missionaries and helping them with their transportation needs. This Mon. night, we went to the Bishop's for Family Home Evening with about 16 other University Ward members, Tues. night we cooked four pounds of sausage and gathered supplies for Wednesday's luncheon of French toast and smoothies (Peter's specialty, which everyone LOVED...what do you think about that Crismon?) and, of course, sausage. Wed. night, we returned to the Institute for an Activity Night (this week it was a gym/fitness activity on campus). Tonight, Thursday, we attended the Institutes's student council meeting and a class that Bro. Bills teaches. He makes the Old Testament LIVE, like nothing we've ever experienced. Tomorrow night, we travel to Springdale for dinner and an in service training meeting with other seminary/institute personnel within a 75 mile radius. Saturday, we'll visit less active students in neighboring communities and that night is a wedding reception for a student. Sunday, we'll have Church in the morning and a YSA (young single adult) fireside broadcast with Elder Hales that evening at the Institute (that reminds me, I'll be providing the brownies, that I'll make earlier in the day). Did we mention that it takes a four hour block daily(sometimes in the wee hours) to prepare for our classes that we teach. This isn't meant to sound complaining, at all, we are having a wonderful experience! We just thought it would be interesting to learn how our "retired" life has been put on fast forward. So fast, that today we realized (quite by accident) that on Sunday, we will have already been out on our mission for 2 months! Time flies when you're having fun! Now the hour is late; so, with a promise to be more faithful in the future...we'll say good-night and tell you we love and appreciate you!
Peter and Sharon