Day one- "Preach My Gospel"

Highlights-

• Seeing about 40 or so couples and 9 single sisters who will be serving the Lord around the world.
• Brother Peterson informing 40 or so couples and 9 single sisters that there will be no heart attacks during this week of training.
• Meeting a missionary couple who are going to Richmond, Indiana. This is where Marcia and I served our first church service mission about 4 years ago.
• Learning how to strain insects out of our rice so we don't have extra or unwanted protein. Thank-you Elder Wells. He and Sister Wells are serving their third mission. This mission they are going to Fiji to serve in office support. Their two previous missions were in Singapore/Malaysia mission and in Russia. They learned how to strain out insects from their rice in Malaysia. It takes about six times to do an effective job!
• We met Elder/Doctor and Sister Jackson. They are serving in the Philippines with us as the Area Medical Advisers.
• Walking back to our dorm room and running into about 20 missionaries who were leaving for the Philippines this evening. They were excited and nervous at the same time. They were a great looking bunch of missionaries! We will be looking for them when we leave on the 29th. For those who have been keeping track of our itinerary that will be a day sooner than expected.