Fred and Paula’s Most Excellent Adventure

  We have rode our bikes up City Creek Canyon several times for exercise.  The scenery is beautiful but the roads are steep.  This is a picture of the Utah State Capitol from this view point. President M. Russell Ballard President Dallin H. Oaks Elder Dale G. Renlund This week has been apostle week.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is led by revelation from a living prophet and apostles just like Christ’s day.  Living in Salt Lake City brings us in close proximity to the Prophet Russell M Nelson and the twelve apostles.  Last Sunday, we mistakenly went too early to church.   We ended up walking into the middle of a sacrament meeting.  We thought it was prelude music playing before our church started but it was actually an interlude piece.  It was hard to find a seat but we found one two rows from the front.  President Ballard was looking straight at us from the ...

We have moved to Salt Lake City while we wait for our visas to Japan. We are working remotely with the Kobe Japan Office from our third story apartment. The office is open from 6 PM to 3 AM our time. They are training us on our new responsibilities as office missionaries. We have already received assignments for evenings, nights, and early morning meetings. Flexibility is the name of the game. We wear church clothes everyday which creates all kinds of issues like wearing shoes that look good but we are still able to walk in them for miles.  How do you keep your good clothes clean while you cook and eat?  Our badges say, ”Elder/Sister Allan---Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints” in Japanese.  I’ve learned two things about wearing this badge.   1.       People you don’t know come up and talk to you without you even saying anything. 2.      When you have the name of Jesus Christ on your name tag, you better ...

 Our mission training has begun via Zoom. We will be taking classes for the next two weeks. We are learning many things about being a missionary. Our goal is to help others come to Christ.   Japan borders are still closed. We will be moving to an apartment in Salt Lake City to wait for our visas. We will be working remotely with the office missionaries currently in Japan to learn our new responsibilities. We don’t know how long we will have to wait but we move forward with faith praying that God will guide us as we wait.