Our last days at the MTC

Well we are on our last hours at the MTC. We are going to miss all the wonderful people we have met and the spirit we feel 24-7. I have included pictures of our computer class and the beautiful trees and flowers around the MTC. The blossoms are from a tree called a tulip tree. They look exactly like tulips. Hope to get one of those when we get home. Saturday Gene and I took a shuttle to the Orem Mall and I picked up some new shoes. EARTH shoes that is. I found out I can't wear thrift store shoes all the time. My feet were killing me.

I checked the weather report for Frankfurt and it said it is 67 degrees and will be raining when we get there on Tuesday morning their time. I need to figure the time out because we have to decided the best time to call and use the computer. Dad says Germany is 9 hours ahead of us. Someone with some brains please figure out when we could talk?

We will be signing out of the MTC at 5:00 AM and on our way by 8:15. I thought it would be wise to let you all know the details of our flight in case anything goes wrong. You know me.

Flying at 8:15 to Dallas Texas on American Airlines flight 1986 and will arrive there at 1155AM. We have a layover for 2 1/2 hours. We fly on American Airlines to Frankfurt at 2:40 on flight 70. We are to arrive in Frankfurt at 720 AM Tuesday. Our flight from Dallas to Frankfurt is almost 10 hours. We don't have very good seats. We are in the middle and people are on either side of us. They will be feeding us breakfast, lunch and dinner. Also for our enjoyment a movie or4.

Can't wait to get to Germany. We were told we could go to the Oberammgua Passion Play but tickets would be hard to get. You have to stay in their hotel for two nights and they pay for the meals plus the play which is 6 hours long. It has been presented every ten years since 1600. And this is the year it is on. Well the price is 1,100 per person. It is worth it but guess what you can't find tickets. People have reserved them since the last play. The whole town participates in the production. This is the story of why they stated the play.

When the black death(plague) hit Europe in 1633, killing 1/3 of the population of Europe, the people of Oberammgua prayed and promised that if God preserved the town from the plague they would do a play about Christ's life, crucifiction and ressurection. The plagued passed them by and they are still putting the play on.

When we get to Germany they will set us up with a land line and we will immediately get high speed internet service. We bought a device called Magic Jack. We are suppose to be able to plug it into our Internet service and call anybody for free. Hope it works. So hold on tell we get things set up. Need to go to bed now, have to get up by 3:30. Enjoy the pictures.