More Fun in Utah, Returned Missionary
Today was crazy busy! We started off the day making our way down to Salt Lake City, visiting my uncle Marv along the way. He hasn’t been doing so well lately and is pretty sick. It was nice to see the family. We haven’t seen them in probably 12 years. That’s one of the drawbacks of living so far away… When you do come out to see family, it’s usually immediate family and there isn’t much time to travel around seeing all the extended family you’d like to see.
We then went down to Salt Lake to spend the day. We were going to go see Cliff Higbee (my Regional Leadership Forum leader) at the Church Offices but missed him. We went to the top of the Church Office building and the kids thought that was really cool. Brittany had been up there before and remembered a little bit, and Kirstyn had gone up when she was a baby, but the boys never had. We also got pictures taken at the same place that Angela and I had our wedding pictures taken 21 years ago!
We then walked around Temple Square for a bit and then went over to the Conference Center where we listened to an organ recital of one of the Tabernacle Choir Organists. It was really good and Kirstyn loved it so much, she took her program down afterward and had him sign it. 🙂
We took the full tour of the Conference Center (something we had not had the chance to do yet), and it was very fascinating. It’s amazing how far engineering has come to build something like that.
After the tour, we rushed over to the mall and had a quick bite to eat before high-tailing it to the airport to see Mark come home from his mission. We went to the baggage area that we were told to go to, but they ended coming in at a different terminal so I’m sure that Mark and the other Elder he came home with were pretty confused when no one was there! 🙂 They finally found us, and the reunion was very large and loud! It was good to see Mark and he had a great and successful mission.
After the airport, we went to Grandma Burns for a smaller reunion. It was really funny… She wouldn’t even hug Mark because he was still a missionary. 🙂 We had a good laugh over that! We also got the yearly 4 Sarah picture taken.
We are really tired and ready to hit the sack now! We’ll sleep great tonight!
