Elder Moretti is our "mission photographer" and is always taking pictures of everyone. He wanted us in our Sunday clothes and with this picture in the Trek Center. Elder Howard is getting more obvious "raccoon eyes" and I am getting fluffier hair (from a perm.) Not our best picture, but it will do.
This week's trek was with the Magna East Stake, from Magna UT. During staging, this brother walked up to us and asked if we knew who he was. Elder Howard was not sure, but I recognized him right off as being a Saxton from Emmett. His name is Drake and he was one of our son's, Shay"s, friends. We know his family well. It is always a small world, especially in the Church.
As the trekking group left staging, they had a kneeling prayer, which is always awesome to me.
Each family had a "flour baby." They tried to take good care of them, but some of them had a lot of duct tape around them by the end of the trek, from "injuries" that occurred on the traill!
They did a vignette about the Jens & Elsie Nielson story, where Jens could walk no longer so Elsie ended up pulling him many miles in the handcart by herself. In her journal she says that when she could go no further, she felt someone pushing from behind. When she turned, she saw no one. Here, the "angels" are running over to help her. It is a very emotional vignette and always brings the Spirit.
We had a great medical team on the Magna East Stake Trek. They did such a good job. It is really nice when they wear something that shows they are medical. Their aprons were great. At each camp, they had a medical tent and area all ready for those that needed them. They were super people.
Sometimes the trek groups ask that the missionaries call a hoedown for them. The first several weeks of our mission, before the trekking starts, we practice dancing and calling hoedowns. I was a little nervous calling this one because I hadn't done one since last year. But it turned out fine and the kids had a great time.
The girls had an unusual activity after the boys went up the hill before the Women's Pull. They had a watermelon seed spitting contest (very lady-like.) Their leaders said they had a very hard time finding watermelons with seeds in them, since most places sell only seedless watermelons these days. I was standing across the road from them and they promised they wouldn't hit me with a watermelon seed, which they didn't.
The first round winners of the watermelon seed spitters had a "spit-off" to choose the ultimate winner. It was a fun, even though an unusual. activity. And, the watermelon was very refreshing before the girls started their devotional. The theme for the devotional was "Doubt Not, Fear Not." They had two girls come up and were each given a short rope, one end in each hand, and were told to try to tie it in a knot. Of course, they couldn't, without letting hold of one end. Then they were told to fold their arms as if praying, take a rope end in each hand, then unfold their arms. A knot automatically formed. They were told that they could always do hard things, to fear not and doubt not, if they pray. They had a great women's pull.
We train the trekkers to put brake ropes on the backs of their carts. When they go down steep hills, no one is in the front except one guide person on each side (no one in the kill zone, which is the middle front) and the rest on the ropes in the back. This family is all set to go down the hill!
The last night of this trek, they served Hawaiian haystacks for dinner. It was fun because the food crew dressed up and we all got a lei. We had a fun time and the dinner was delicious.
This was a fun trek with Elder & Sister Moretti. They are from Lyman, Wy, and this is their first year as missionaries at DL&L.
There are beautiful flowers on the Ranch, but these looked like they were a little out of place. Cacti like these should be in Arizona! I don't know how they survive the cold, snowy winters in the mountains of Utah!
Now this little flower belongs in Utah. It fact, it is the state flower, the Sego Lily. It is always just a single flower, but is very dainty and pretty.
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