Monday 21st July 2014
Pictures and manicures
Cycled
Family walk.
Toured conference centre
Lunch at the blue lemon
Shopping at Deseret flagship store with 25% discount thanks to kindly gentleman and our SA status.
Dinner at Oak, pizza. Kids remember the soda that just kept coming. Again with Micah and Tanya, great company.
Ice cream at sub zero, where you watch your ice cream being made with liquid nitrogen. Just yesterday I found myself craving the cookie dough ice cream. Long line of people waiting patiently. Americans are patient. South Africans are patient in banks, not much else.
Family home evening, lesson was given by Micah, Noah chose hymn 186 for opening song, really? We were expecting a primary song, but ok, we all thought and sang the hymn thoughtfully.

 

 

Friday 18th.
Cycled with Luke, was super impressed with the neighbourhood and cycle paths. More shopping, discovered Eddie Bouwer, pink lemonade, and had corn dogs (not overly impressed and kids wasted theirs). And swimming again.



Saturday 19th July 2014.
Morning cycle into the mountain pass along cottonwood drive, I love waking up so early each day still being on SA time.
Visited a butcher with Wayne and enjoyed an awesome 40th birthday party.

Sunday 20th July 2014
Walked to church and enjoyed dramatic talks and good lessons. In hp group a page was sent around for members to write their names to clean Salt Lake Temple on 2nd August, what an awesome experience that would have been if we were still around. The list came around, and then came around again. Not too many names on it though.
Dinner with Scholes and Tanya and Micah. Wayne cooked up a perfect roast rubbed with truffle oil.
Phase 10, a card game.

Moaning about something

Smile for photo..

Jonah - always keen to help someone.

Chick-Fill-A

Being taught by Granny

Noah

Thursday 17th July 2014
I woke up around 4 am and moved to the dining room to check emails and write of our travels. As soon as it was light I walked around the neighbourhood. Strange being in a distant land, I took in everything and appreciated the views, the crisp air, the tidy homes, the cars, the motor homes, the chapels and the fragrance of the plants and trees.
Sometimes, in Durban , when driving around, I'll have a conversation with God, just about this and that, things that I'm grateful for, things I'd like... and in Durban my prayers feel quite leisurely as in my mind I don't know how many others are competing for attention. Not many I reckon, so we can just kick back and shoot the breeze. But on this morning, walking around a neighbourhood in Salt Lake City my prayer felt harried and drowned out by the many people waking and each calling on Gods attention.
Amber, Luke and I Mtb’d around cottonwood trails and I uploaded this to strava.
Temple Square. I have thought about this experience .for a long time, what it would be like, the sights, sounds, architecture. It was for me more impressive than I imagined.
The temple was locked for renovations, so we took photos from outside the locked gate.
Nice that we had a surprise meeting up with granny Judith in the visitor’s center, special for the kids to be taught by her around the mini temple replica.
Chick fill a for lunch in the city creek mall, which felt like a stake activity.
Swam all afternoon perfecting my back flip and had papa john’s pizza for dinner and unblocked a toilet. Chatted to Wayne who was driving to Heathrow in a hired bmw and who was feeling tad sleepy after being awake for to long so we chatted about stuff till he was safely arriving at the airport. Melissa and I watched a bit of world war z but m turned it off when she saw me falling asleep. 'Chicken' was the last thing I said before I fell asleep.

Papa Johns- ticked and awsome.