On Tuesday evening we picked up Abe early from work and drove to Temple Square for a tour of the mission. We got to see old friends and explore the mission. Everything was pretty much the same except the missionaries are waaaaay more technologically advanced (no more pagers…sniff!) and there is a giant new tech room in the North Visitor’s Center.
Here I am with Lindsay Carlson Evans being wowed by the new room:
I actually had a lot of fun reconnecting with Lindsay. We ended up visiting with her and her family a LOT because she had a boy Ammon’s age, although not quite as crazy as Ammon. At one point one of Lindsay’s sons came up to Abe and said, “Excuse me, sir, is that your son? [pointing to Ammon] He keeps chasing me and I don’t want him to.”
At that point, Abe firmly sat Ammon down on a chair, at which point Ammon started howling. Abe took him out of the mission theater and onto the square, where two lovely sister missionaries calmed him down. The one from Nigeria said Ammon reminded her of her little brother who she helped raise and who she missed a lot. As they amused Ammon, Ammon looked up at them and said, “Are you a pwincess?” They laughed and said no. At the end when they said goodbye, Ammon called after them, “I KNOW you a pwincess!!!”
Then we visited with Lindsay’s family by the shell fountains. They took pictures of us and we took pictures of them.
Then I returned some stuff in City Creek and took all of the girls while Abe waited with Ammon. Somehow Ammon still managed to fall into the fountain (the one that is choreographed to music and has fire shooting out of the middle).
After that excitement, we drove through Crown Burger and headed home.