Let's See....How Much Can I Squeeze In?.....

I wonder if we will be able to get all this stuff in our suitcases.

We are packing up as much as we can, and leaving out what we will wear in the next 4 days.  Isn't that crazy.  Basically 4 outfits and something casual to wear around home....something to wear on the trip through Paris and Salt Lake....from the time we leave our apartment here until we arrive at Sky Harbor Airport, over 24 hours will have elapsed.

We went into the mission office today for an interview with our new mission president....kind of a "hello, goodbye" interview....otherwise known as an "exit" interview.  He is a good man and seems like a real take charge kind of a person, efficient and businesslike.  He also is optimistic, and expresses his faith.  We enjoyed our interview.

President Sederholm has been gone 2 months now.  He was a marvelous mission president, and was our spiritual leader for nearly 2 years.  We love that man...and his beautiful wife.  I know President O'Bryant and his wife are marvelous....and they are going to do very well at heading up the best mission in the world.

This evening I started baking....desserts for Thursday evening.  I made pecan pie bars.  I also went visiting teaching.  I saw my dear friend Anna, who has translated for me for all this time in Amager.  She is the age of my daughters and I have enjoyed getting to know her.  She is very talented and also very fun.  She has assured me that she will come to Arizona at some point in the future.

It is interesting for the average Dane to visit America.....language is simply not an issue, since most of the them could pass for an American with their language.  Every one of our missionaries who has left to serve a mission in an English-speaking mission has been invited to attend the MTC for 6 or 8 weeks......until they call the missionary department and speak to someone.  It would be a waste of resources.

The next three days are going to be packed full.....possibly even fuller than those big suitcases on the couch!