On Friday, they literally flew into the waiting arms of Selwin and Simeon who picked them up from their “red eye” flight into McCarren Airport in Las Vegas.
On Saturday, we gathered all the Lovell’s, Brianna’s family, along with Ed and I for a “mystery trip” to Silver Reef where we saw a gunfight between the Marshall and a bank robber, toured the museum where the Smithsonian display “How They Worked” was drawing a crowd, and experienced a walk deep into a “pretend” mine (in the basement of the museum).
On Sunday, we got together to listen to a conference session then enjoy an American dinner in the backyard including hamburgers and Dutch oven potatoes, then visited Stacy’s family (Tasiley had been injured in her cheer practice and was in a lot of pain).
On Monday, we drove them up to Zion, stopping briefly at the little Western village for pictures. In our spectacular national park, it took a minute, but eventually Sherlock exclaimed “wow!” and “amazing” and took his share of photos while Granny was in quiet awe of the scenery. Then Selwin and Bri took them to the Temple Visitor Center for FHE.
On Tuesday, I was heavily involved in setting up for the HWSG’s welcome bag assembly assignment, so was unable to spend much time with Granny and Sherlock.
On Wednesday, the longest and most grueling day of assembling welcome bags, Sherlock and Granny came to help. He walked the tables stuffing bags and she had a sitdown job. In the evening, we went on another “mystery trip” to the new Family Search Discovery Center. Fun, fun, fun.
Thursday the welcome bags were completed in just a little over an hour so I picked them up for an afternoon visit to our beautiful Snow Canyon State Park (again lots of pictures to take home to Guyana); a stop at Tuacahn Outdoor Amphitheater; and, without even having to convince them, we went for a tour of Brigham Young’s Winter Home.
They flew back to Neward, NJ on Friday, but called before they left so say thank you. It was a delightful visit and we hope to see them again one day.
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