Just gotta make time for exercise...

Wonderful thing about all the days since the last post:  Sometimes there's just too much to do!  We have our "normal" occupations, teaching institute and now a missionary preparation course; doing our weekly home evening; meeting with the institute presidency weekly and following up throughout the week; going to institute in Florence at least once every couple of weeks; going to missionary district meetings every week, alternating between Prato and Florence; attending lessons taught by missionaries; attending ward council meetings weekly in either Florence or Prato; visiting members, particularly young adults, in both wards...Thank heaven we're serving full time, because now we've been asked to do training meetings in three areas of the stake for YM/YW; we've been called as training specialists in the same; I've been called as stake YW (Young Women auxiliary of the church) secretary; we've been asked to expand our work with young adults to Pisa, Livorno, and La Spezia; AND we're acquainting ourselves and others with the Pathway program, which right now means visiting the ward/branch councils in the stake twice in the next few weeks, once to inform the leaders, and once to recruit interested members.  Every night we're out late and every day we're working on these programs.  Love it, it's happy work that invites the fruits of the Spirit!
p.s.  If you don't know anything about Pathway, check it out on pathway.lds.org.

Fun thing:  Blaine's biggest worry about this mission was that we wouldn't have enough to do...