Park City - A Mission Vacation!

We wanted to share our mission 'vacation' with you. Part of our mission is the Family Tree Center in Park City. Occasionally (we hear its 2-3 time during our mission) we will be assigned to that venue for a week. Such was the case in June. We were assigned to cover the center from June 22 - June 28. What a treat!!!

For those of you who have never been there, the Family Tree Center is a small version of the family history library. Anyone can walk in and we will teach them how to look up family ancestors. It's a very fun place to serve. Park City is a very big tourist attraction in the winter because of the wonderful skiing available. We found out that it is also a big attraction in the summer as well. There are art shows and other venues that come to Park City on a continual basis.

The Family Tree Center is right on Main Street so multitudes of people walk up and down the street every single day. It is open to the public from 10:00am until 9:00pm. It is a 3 story building with a basement. The center is on the main floor and the basement level and has about 10 computer stations where the guests can look up their ancestors. It's very exciting to watch someone come in and find a grandparent or other relative that they never knew about before. They are thrilled to pieces!

The 2nd floor is an apartment for the 2 sister missionaries who are assigned there for a 6 week period of time. There is also an office on that floor. The 3rd floor is an apartment for the missionary couple who is assigned there for the week. We have most mornings off until 3:00pm and work the 3-9PM shift with the sister missionaries.


When we went up we worked with Sister Bleazzard (from the USA) and Sister Gasmin (from the Phillipines). They were so fun to work with. We took them out on their p-day to Heber City (they chose where they wanted to go). We went to the Heber Creeper, the crater, up main street, ate lunch at the Dairy Keen (I said it right - it's not the Dairy Queen, but the Dairy Keen) The food was delicious and they always feed the missionaries for free. They gave us more food than we could eat so we took it home and had the rest for dinner. The sisters had a great time kissing the frog at the golf course to see if he would turn into their 'prince charming'. I didn't need to do that because I already have mine!

While we were in Park City Mike and I also went to the Olympic Park Village (where part of the winter olympics were held). It was very interesting. We took the tram to the top of the Olympic Ski jump. It is so high I don't know how anyone would have the nerve to go down and jump off................!!! We did ride the Alpine slide though. It was so much fun!! There's a picture of Mike on it but you can hardly tell it's him. It takes off at the top of the hill by the ski jump
and goes to the bottom. Each person rides it by themselves and can control their own speed. We did NOT ride the bobsled which is driven by someone else and goes anywhere from 60-70 miles per hour down the hill. I wanted to keep my sanity a little longer (at least what I have left).

Every morning we woke up and went for a walk through the city. They have a wonderful walking trail that is a few miles long and takes you though their beautiful parks. We also walked up into the hills and overlooked the city one morning. It was breathtaking. The walks were great but I still didn't loose a single pound. We also had the excitement of the city loosing all its power one evening. It happened a little before 8:00pm and after about 20 minutes without any power and then finding out that they were not going to be able to get the power on for several hours we decided to close up shop. We then went up to the balcony off our apartment and invited the sister missionaries up. We brought all our 'junk food' out and had a party on the balcony. We had so much fun and laughed like crazy. What a fun experience - one we'll never forget.


We had a great time. We just found out that we have been assigned to go again on September 28 for another week. YEAH!!! Here's an invitation to anyone in the area to come and visit us while we're there!!!