Letter from the end of the Trip

Dear Family,
How are you all doing this week? We think about you often and hope you are all well. We have been home from our little jaunt for a few days now and are feeling like we have finally started to get some of our energy back. Tomorrow we are back at the temple. We are expecting saints by the bus load this week from several stakes here in Spain. We have one new couple here to help us replace the two who have left. They are very sweet and very excited to be here. The wife has quite a history. She is of Spanish decent. Her father was a member of the Spanish secret service before Franco came into power. So the man had to leave his family in the middle of the night and flee to Morocco. For nine years his wife would try to join him. The authorities would arrest her. After nine years she was finally successful in escaping to Morocco where this sister was born. After WW II they moved to France, Switzerland and finally the U.S. She was born with a small heart. She should have died before she was five years old. Her condition was discovered when she had the physical for their mission. They took one look at her heart and sent her to surgery. Six months later they are here. They have little money. Don't own their own home but could afford a mission here in Spain. They have sacrificed a lot to be here. She said that to live in her parents home country has always been a dream of hers and now her prayers have been answered against great odds. A sweet story.

Sunday I played for the Primary because they don't have a pianist right now. So fun. They played the same games in Spain that they play in the states. Just a testimony that the gospel is the same all over the world. Also in Sunday school our lesson was on the Last Supper. When the teacher talked about the washing of feet as a gesture of the Savior's love for the apostles, one young woman in the class raised her hand and said that she thought that there was more to it because the Prophet Joseph washed feet in the school of the prophets. Then another brother said that it was an ordinance and that is why the Savior did that. I was so impressed that these sweet Spanish saints knew so much about the gospel. Wow!

Well, how are you all doing? How are Taylor's preparations coming for his trip and mission? Abby, have you started your stuff for seminary council yet? So fun to read Sarah's letters. How is football practice, Pete? What is going on with the rest of you? Riley, Lizzy, Rachel, Emma, Liza, Kate, Carter, Meri, Andrew, Benji, Collin, Isabelle, Mason, Henry, Jane, Alan, and Maggie?
We love you all. Call. We would love to hear from you. The Gospel is true! The Savior lives. Grandpa and Grandma