Sunday

We found a ward building where we were able to attend sacrament meeting. The girls were embarrassed to come wheeling in with our bags but we were not the lone visitors, in fact it looked to me like half the congregation was visitng. They had everyone raise their hand in the beginning to be welcomed if they were visitors. Both of the talks were on visiting teaching/home teaching. I am a terrible visiting teacher. I enjoyed the talks and felt very motivated to improve. It was really nice to go to sacrament. There is such a feeling of belonging to me. I love the simplicity of our chapels and the sacredness of taking the sacrament. There is joy in singing the hymns and peace in participating. 

The chapel shares the building with the temple. It was such a sharply contrasting feeling seeing the angel Moroni as we were walking down the street looking for the building. We were all excited and looked up and smiled. Yesterday we walked around Times Square and saw tons of ads for every product, show, and form of entertainment. That was fun, this was joy.

Point of interest: the high council speaker was Robert Comstock, the fashion designer. 

After church we hurried and caught a cab to the bus...and then waited 2 hours outside in the cold since the bus was late. The silver lining was that we ended up with the best seat on the bus. We have a table so the girls can do their homework and we are all seated together.

I hope Hannah thinks this weekend was as special as I do. It's very much a treat to spend one on one time with the children. This trip especially was a once in a lifetime!