First Week After the MTC

¡Hola a Todos! (Hello All!)

Well…we suppose the big question in everyone’s mind may be, “What are you going to do now that you have completed your MTC training and don’t have travel plans for Peru yet?” We were wondering the same thing, but it turns out that there is a lot of work that we can do remotely. This week we started “Zooming” with the mission office elders in Lima and they began training us on their office procedures.

Highlights:

Meeting and working with the office elders: Lane and I were both pretty apprehensive and wondered how well remote training would actually work. We weren’t just worried about being trained over Zoom, but also knew that our Spanish language skills would pose a significant challenge. Luckily, Lane’s Spanish skills proved sufficient (Yay for his mission to Bolivia and his mad translating skills!) and we were able to start learning the mission office processes. The two elders that we are working with are fantastic…so patient, enthusiastic, and willing to talk slow and repeat things!

Reconnecting with MTC Language Tutors: While Lane is able to study Spanish independently, I have been very thankful that the MTC language tutors are available to help me one-on-one. My tutor is fantastic!

Scheduling our Covid vaccinations: Our state opened up the Covid vaccines to those ages 50+ and we are now scheduled to receive the vaccine. Although we feel somewhat like guinea pigs in this process, it’s going to be necessary to get the vaccine to go to Peru.

Lane’s broken tooth update: He had his broken tooth extracted and the implant process started…and he’s still alive!

Visiting Utah Lake: On p-day, we decided to do something a little more adventurous after we did our Saturday cleaning, so we hit the donut shop and drove to a park that borders the north side of Utah Lake. We walked out to the lake’s shore and along the sidewalk that borders the lake. We’ve never really been “down to the lake” in the 5+ years we’ve been here.

Thoughts: We hit a bit of a snag this week when our internet went down on Wednesday. Apparently a construction crew accidentally cut the cable that services our neighborhood. We are so dependent on having a good internet connection that it becomes a real problem when things don’t work. We are thankful that we don’t have to rely on an internet cable when we need to communicate with Heaven. If we keep our side of the “prayer line” open and in good repair, we can always access God.

“Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another.”

~D&C 90:24

¡Tengan una buena semana! (Have a great week!)

Love,

Lane & LeAnn