May was spent mainly on our trip to Australia and New Zealand.
The people that we spent time with were the absolute highlight of our trip!
Elder and Sister TEMPLETON were our angels, allowing us to make their home, our home base to stay part of our trip!
We went to the Hamilton Temple while we were there too...beautiful place!
When we returned, we held our May APM HIKE...this time back to Stewart Falls, a favorite!
We had Joseph Barley, Nicole Barton and Amelia Johnson join our daughter Breanna and her boyfriend Elliot on this one.
As you can see, it was a beautiful day! Started out a bit chilly, but we soon ditched the jackets.
This time we also hiked up to the top of the upper falls...a bit tenuous with slippery rocks, but we did it and it was pretty awesome!
We got some individual shots of our RM's
Joseph
Nicole
Amelia is hard to see because yes, she braved going UNDER the falls and it was freezing!!
Me?? Well, I got CLOSE but not soaked!
And the entire crew!
It was the perfect way to start off our Saturday morning!
As we saw crowds of people going up as we came down we realized that earlier really IS BETTER in hiking popular trails!
And i love the random running into RM's...as I went to Zions Bank to make a deposit, who was my teller?
Alex Janzen!!
I was so excited to see him!
Early June I was on the road again for 2 more weeks and President T was on his own for one of those weeks where he got to meet up with some RM's...
Alex Harline was in town from Texas, so glad they got to meet up in SLC!! Sad for me that I missed it!
And, I missed out on Alex Cordero's sealing and reception as well!
So glad President T made it to congratulate them!
And of course, he got to see other mission friends...John Kroeger, Kaila Harris and Dallin Anderson.
Then I also missed out when Tyber Parsons was in town and went to the MTC along with Blake Mullenix to visit our Italian Branch with President T.
How cool is that to have them come share their testimony with our current missionaries! THANKS GUYS!!
Our JUNE APM HIKE was a unique place we had just been dying to go...ANTELOPE ISLAND!
We were bummed that Logan Longhurst got stuck at work in Idaho...he was our planned tour guide from the area, but we found our trail and really had the best time!
We were entertained by the sign at the entrance...
But we DID see a lot of buffalo there, and some pronghorn antelope (fastest mammal in N America BTW) and snakes and birds.
We actually watched a gopher snake for a long time up on top of the knob!
We were hiking Dooley Knob partway up the Frary Peak trailhead.
Me with Breanna and Elliot...we love our new trekking poles! They were super helpful!
Colton Robinson
Lexie and Shae Morgan
Maria Garcia
Julie and Jenny Greenwood(It was their birthday!)
Jesus Castro
Chad Alvey
Conner Albrecht
And the whole group up at the top of the knob where the view was spectacular!
OK, when I posted earlier, WHO KNEW that I would run into 5 more APM missionaries before the end of the month??!!
Braden and I were at the City Center Temple ready to serve and ran into Dax Gerber and his girlfriend Kylie. We ended up deciding to go do sealings together and it was really great! Can't think of a better place to run into you all!!
Then, the next AM when I go back to my RIP class, who do I see but Rachel and Alex Ure ready to sweat. Seriously kill that class!! They are awesome!!
That night I went to help our dear friends, the Thurbers, from Peoria with a wedding reception down in Mapleton and who do I see??
Dan and Alexis Jensen, Yes, Alexis is cousin to the groom!!
So fun to see them there!!
And then Breyton Barber comes walking in as well...he was friends with Vanessa Thurber in his YSA ward!
SMALLEST, BEST WORLD EVER!!
