Spring, Certificates, and More Flowers

I told you last week that I thought summer had finally come but was I every WRONG.  We had some really cold days the first of the week and 2 days of really nice rain. Imustn't complain as I know at home they are already suffering with the heat and most likely wishing they could enjoy some of our cool weather.

Our missionary training is moving forward and we have made great progress this week.  Not only have we completed our certification for England and Scotland but we also completed Ireland but won't get our certificates until next month when they have the award ceremony. We will now be assigned to help the patrons on a more frequent basis. Monday morning we have an assignment to go to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building to the Family History Center there to help a tour group who will only be there for about an hour.  The goal is to help them find a record of their people and hopefully spark an interest for them to do their family history work.

For those of you who have been following the story of the falcons you may want to go to the link below to see the update on our baby birds.  There were four eggs but it appears that there will only be one new falcon to survive this year.

http://slcfalcons.blogspot.com

Our cultural event for the week was attending the Bells on Temple Square; their performance was "Bells in Motion." As you can see from the picture, some of the bells they use are very large.   Several times a year they do a concert separate form the choir. Along with the bells there were string instruments added to some of the numbers including a violin and harp duet accompanied by the Tabernacle organ and several string quartet numbers, a cello solo (Delainee you would have loved it). It's probably too small to actually read but you can see from the flyer below a sampling of the events that are available on Temple Square.

The Bells on Temple Square

Monthly Flyer of Temple Square Events

Some of the flowers blooming on Temple Square this week

If you look close you can see a bee

Yellow peony with orange center

Pink rose

 

White peony bush

Row of rose bushes

We took a picture of this tree that is on the southeast corner of the Salt Lake Temple on April 28 and again on May 25 just so you could see the progression as it got its leaves. We took one again today with us in front of it.

"Naked Tree" taken on 4/28/2013

 

Byde and I in front of the same tree 6-2-2013 the picture above is on 5-25-2013