Today was a momentous day for us. We were set apart for our mission to Ecuador by the Stake Presidency. We enter the MTC in Provo tomorrow. We're not really sure what to do with ourselves tonight. We've been getting ready since December, putting things away, taking myriad trips to the DI, making endless arrangements for our finances, mail, etc. I worry about our yard--so hard to leave it right now with it looking so pretty and green with the advent of Spring. We sold the Porsche and have rented our house--tender mercies for which we are very grateful. Tutoring via Skype with the MTC has been a blessing. Plus, I read the newspaper from Quito nearly every day and a talk from General Conference in Spanish most days. Sandy spoke a little Spanish in her talk last night at Stake Conference and that was exciting.

The house is looking empty. Most of the furniture except for a few big pieces has been moved out; no plates or flatware left. We enjoy eating out and today, Ainsley made a wonderful dinner and we loved eating at her house.

We had a wonderful Easter dinner at Hilary and Sam's house. Whitney surprised us and came all the way from Durango for our farewell and Tom and Dana came from Albuquerque. Plus, so many dear friends came--so humbling and touching.

We had decided that we would not be weepy from the pulpit during our farewell. We took advice from Cher's Moonstruck, i.e., whenever we felt like crying we would just say "snap out of it!" It worked great for me until I saw 2.5 rows of my dear Apple peeps sitting in the chapel. Wow! So humbling.