This morning we finished initial prep for Institute on Friday. We will be studying Helaman 10-12 with a concentration on receiving personal revelation through pondering scripture and the words of our living prophets.

We then attended our weekly District Development Meeting, which was held at our apartment. Our district consists of us and four Elders. We met in our apartment because one of the missionaries forgot the keys to the church house. After meetings we drove two of the missionaries back to their apartment and on the way we stopped off at Checkers, a drive through hamburger joint, very popular here.

This afternoon we met with on family and this evening we met with two families. As we meet with them we get to know each other and we also find out if there are any deployments in their future. We will have many families with husbands and father who are deploying in the next six months. We are considering starting a support group for the ladies and their children. Also, as we get to know them we try to leave them with a scriptural thought that would be appropriate for them and their current circumstances. It has been a very enjoyable day.

P.S. We took our new phone back to Sprint today and found out that the new one we picked up yesterday has the same problems that the old new one had that we just got rid of. They both have had serious difficulty in connecting when we try to call out or text. We are going to get another new one, but this time a different model.