A Day at the Draper Temple

Matt went through the Draper temple this morning, June 16th. Merrill, Patty, JoAnne, Diane, and Randy accompanied him. It was a beautiful morning.

President Sorenson's Farewell

Matt, Patty, and Merrill were able to go to Matt's mission president's farewell Sunday in their ward in Sandy. President Darwin Sorenson and his wife Lee Ann spoke in their ward, and afterwards we got to meet them. President Sorenson is an executive at Holiday Oil. He seems like a real straight-shooter, not hesitating to tell Matt what he thought of his goatee.

President Sorenson gave Matt several directives:
1: Lose the goatee!
2: Go to the temple as often as possible.
3: Study Preach My Gospel
4: Read Elder Bednar's talk from the April Conference http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1032-30,00.html

President Sorenson becomes the mission president on July 1st.

Cleveland Ohio!

The call was just opened, and Matt is called to the Ohio, Cleveland mission, English speaking. He leaves on July 29th!

And the winner is.....

MATT!

What are the odds? According to MapQuest, Matt was off by 561 miles. Maddie's guess of North Carolina was a close 2nd at 573 miles, and Sarah's Boston was 3rd place at 639 miles.

Click here to see a map of everyone's guesses: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&vps=1&jsv=160h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115613268860458301664.00046b7350de6a2963fa4&mid=1244044041

Matt: St. Louis
Merrill: Japan
Patty: Australia
Delaney: Thailand
Cody: Bolivia
Peyton: Ecuador
Alex: California
Katie: Ukraine
Savannah: Russia
Maddie: North Carolina
Sadie: Brazil
Karen: England
Sarah: Boston
Fred: Taiwan
Louise: Bourdeaux, France
Kerry: Paraguay
Cole: Brazil
Lori: Spain
Mark: Austria
Randy: Chile
Diane: Albania
Alyssa: South Africa
Lauren: Arizona
Brynlee: Eastern Canada (Quebec)
Grandma Wilson: Ecuador
Louise Wilkinson: Brazil
Butch: Guatemala
Clay: Argentina
Jackie: Singapore
Cassidy: Denmark
Nick: Brazil