Syndey-Our Second Saturday July 28, 2007

Elizabeth & Jay with Opera House in background

Sydney Harbor

Darling Harbor

Didgeridoo Show
Sydney Opera House
Sydney Harbor Bridge
Ferry Boat from Rydalmere to Circular Quay

Arrived in Australia at last!!!

Just arrived yesterday. We are eating lunch in the Carlingford Shopping Center. Do we look a bit jet lagged? We were!!!













This is Peggy and Ken Stevens, our predecessors. He is Rozanne's uncle, Marva's brother. They were very nice to us. We will live in their flat










What is a didgeridoo? It is an Aborginal musical instrument that is the craze with tourists and senior missionaries alike!
This is the kiosk at the Paddy Market in Sydney (which is a huge flea market) where they sell "the best" didgeriedoos. Ken Stevens took home a bunch of them. You blow into one end and this mournful sound comes out of the other end.














Senior Missionaries, Elder Anderton, Elder McMullin and Elder Keyes playing their didgeridoos.


















Queen Victoria Building has upscale shops and restaurants and houses the largest rail station in the Sydney train network in the basement. The inside is very beautiful.














International clock inside the Queen Victoria Building.















Details of the International clock.














This was where we ate lunch on Friday afternoon in downtown Sydney in the China Town area. This was a large room with tables and chairs. Around the perimeter of the room were kiosks that sold different oriental food. Some were Chinese, or Japanese or Thai. You would order from whichever kiosk looked the best to you. It was good food and not too expensive. Sort of a fast food Oriental food court.

MTC July 2-July 8, 2007

We were housed in the Jacob Hamlin building. This is a picture of the ramp and the entrance to the building. Our room was on the 3rd floor. We entered through this entrance which was the 2nd floor.









This was the sign outside of the cafeteria at the MTC. The menu for each meal was posted outside the door.










Lunch in the Cafeteria. It is huge with six stations where you can get your food. No one could possibly go hungry in the MTC! The biggest problem in fitting into your clothes when you leave the MTC!










It was so fun to meet old friends at the MTC. This is President and Sister Hudson from the Denmark Mission. He was the mission president when we served in Hamburg.









I had a wonderful surprise on Sunday as we were waiting eat dinner. We had decided to sit in the lobby of the MTC until the cafeteria opened. I looked up and who should walk into the lobby but Georgia Blanchard McIff, my very best friend and neighbor from Woodland Hills. We were both so pleased to see each other again. She is very happy with her life and it shows.

MTC

We entered the MTC in Provo, Utah on July 2, 2007.
We spent one week doing a comprehensive study of 3 of the 5 lessons in Preach My Gospel and interacting with the other senior missionaries. There was a large group of senior missionaries, probably 60 in number. When we left someone told us that they thought we were the most prepared group of seniors they had had at the MTC.

This picture was taken in the lobby of the MTC.