One week from today we will be in the MTC. Our house has still not sold. We have had a number of showings just today.
Brent arrived in St. George, along with the Randalls, sans Craig. They were happy to get out of the house. Their remodeling has begun in ernest and the jack hammering was noisy. Craig woked hard in Bountiful while we all played hard. Needless to say, the Sullenger girls were excited to see their cousins. Anne brought Brigham Baggett with them, as he had never had a chance to come down. He was pretty excited and seemed to love everything we did, which was mostly the kids playing. This morning we went and played miniature golf and rode in some bumper boats. They had a ball. I hope that Anne posts the pictures on her site. I hope that the pictures turned out good.
At any rate, on the the preparations. We will arrive home on Thursday and Friday the movers will come and move everything out. Saturday we will have a small open house at the McFaddens. I do home someone comes. It should be a nice visit with all our children and some of the relatives and friends. Sunday we will speak in church and then be Set Apart by our Stake President. Monday morning we will be off to the MTC. We are not sure who will be taking us, but I am sure that one of our children will do it. If Liz and Brian stay over till Monday, perhaps they will drop us off on their way home.
We have been without cars for a week or two and it is interesting. I guess we will have to get used to it as we probably will not have a car in Hungary.
We continue with our Hungarian lessons, but I am not sure how well we are doing. Brent got a lot of packing done after I flew to St. George a week ago. The problem with not being home, it doesn't seem like anything unusual is going on, except that Liz and Brian are off having a wonderful time.
Brent brought my little piano down, and are the girls ever excited. Over the weekend it has hardly been off. Already I can see an improvement in Emily's playing. She has hauled out her old books and been doing really well. Even Ashley, who says she will not be playing the piano, has taken her music out.
Tonight we are going to dinner with Brent's family that are in St. George. That will be nice. Some of them may fly up for the farewell on Sunday, but no one knows for sure about it. It will depend on how Grandma feels. Brent was very anxious to spend some time with his mother while down here. I hope that he will spend a little more time with her during this week.
We have our itinerary for our flight. We willl leave SLC and go to JFK in New York and then on to Vienna where we will board a small plane and go to Budapest. We did find out that we will be finished at the MTC on Friday, rather than Sunday. That came as a surprise to us. I hope that we are ready for that. We still have to finish up our talks for Sunday. We also have to be sure that we have our weight distributed correctly among the suitcases. We have one suitcase that is not looking as sturdy as I would like it to be. I am trying to decide what to do about that. Can't do anything until Thursday.
I hope that we have more interesting things to say after next week. I am beginning to think that we aren't much fun at the moment.
