Leaving the MTC in a few hours to drive to the airport. We should be in Guatemala City at 8:00 or 9:00 where Larry Wilken and his wife (the AMA there now) "will be in the airport to whisk us away and deposit us in our snug little apartment" (Larry's words). We should be in our beds by 11:00. We wonder what tomorrow will bring and we are so eager to see what our duties and jobs will be. I guess the first thing we will do is to call each Mission President and tell them we are here and ask them what we can do for them. Next week, we will go to Panama with the Wilken's and get our first observation of a Zone Conference. A couple going to Ethiopia and the two of us are the last of our 40 couples to leave the MTC and our wing of the building is very hollow sounding and empty. We have met extraordinary coulples and have made friends with many. When one is such an intense learning environment with such close and intimate tasks such as preaching and teaching and bearing testimony over and over, it is hard not to see the very soul of one another. We have major butterflies in our stomachs and as we got out of bed this morning we looked at each other and said, "this is it!!!" We hope we will be able to do a good job. Dad taught a lesson in Spanish last night and I bore testimony. We visited a class of missionaries who were going to San Diego, Spanish speaking and had to speak to the whole class. Dad did well, I hope I did esta bien. We visited the laundry for the first time last night. Now there is an experience never to be forgotten. Hundreds of machines, hundreds of missionaries, tabnernacle choir music playing over the speakers, missionaries on computers, 110 degrees and 100 per cent humidity. Everyone was laughing and talking. As I was working on a washing machine two lady missionaries came over and started putting their hands here and there all over the places where the two machines met. Just before she left home a week ago one of her friends who had been in the MTC some months ago had left a letter between L14 and L16 machines. Sure enough, they found it, and it had been undisturbed for 4 months. The reason I mention it is because we see this sort of thoughtful thing all the time. Well, gotta chatcha plane.. Carolyn