"We will survive"

We survived the first week of our actual temple service.  We have two really hard days, Tuesday and Friday.  Both start at noon and end about 9:45.  We are busy the entire time.  We are doing all kinds of things, things that at the Twin Falls Temple, our shift coordinators' worried about.  Durg is very confident, but me, not so much.  I am learning though. 

On Thursdays, our summer temple missionary coordinators have planned great outings or excursions for us.  We went to the Corning Museum of Glass and loved watching the glass blowing exhibit.  We loved it so much, we went to it three times.  Every time a different vase or cup or goblet was formed by people blowing and shaping the glass.  It was fascinating.  Very entertaining too.   We had lunch in the town of Corning and ice cream at the Old World Café, an old building.    On our way back to Palmyra, we stopped at Sauder's.  It is Menonite Store where they sell everything.  Durg wanted to buy everything; all types of flour for his dutch oven bread, nuts, candy, (Oh I guess I wanted to buy that), sandwich meats, eggs from the local farmers, and so much more.  We are going back there for sure!  Our excursions remind me of cruise excursions.  We are looking forward to the next one. 

We are surviving the humidity.  Wow, I had no idea.  We take a shower and dry off, but we don't dry off.  You still feel like you have shower water on your body.  Kind of hard to get used to.  We did have a terrible storm last night while we were working in the temple.  We could hear the thunder and the rain and the power went out.  Fortunately, the temple has a generator, so everything just kept on going, except for one spurt of darkness.  I was assigned the laundry and was doing laundry when it happened.  I seriously thought I had blown a fuse.  When Sister Cahoon, one of the assitants to the matron, came to check on me, I told her I thought I blew a fuse.  She started laughing and said, no it's a rain storm and the power went off because of that.  Like I said, we get to do everything, even the laundry. 

I helped with a baptism Tuesday night too.  It was so different from our early morning baptisms, that I wasn't too sure I was any help.  But I did know how to keep the girl's locker room floor from having water all over.  And that's what I did, and then the laundry, of course.  Sure appreciate the laundry ladies at the Twin Falls Temple.  That is a lot of work!

We need to leave now to work today from 12 noon until 5 p.m.  A short day, but the temple is getting busier and busier as summer begins.  So, I will leave you in Palmyra, going to the temple.

Love, Durg and Kathy

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