BYU Football Recruit Joins Us at the MTC

This giant young missionary was hard to ignore at the MTC. 

As soon as we saw him in the cafeteria, we recognized that he was the new BYU recruit that had been all over the local and national news just the week before. He is Motekai Langi, a 6'7" 410 pound lineman from Tonga, who has never played football. He left a few days later to begin his mission in Phoenix, so he will join the team in 2017.  He was such a good sport to let us take a picture with him. We weren't the only ones. We saw him being pestered everywhere for pictures. He seemed to take it good naturedly though. Would you let him in if he knocked at your door?

Our Mission Begins

We're in the Provo MTC! Its where three of our sons began their missions, so we posed by the famous map just as they did so many years ago (21, 19, & 15 years ago). It was great to experience the things that they did when they were there — yes, the food affected us too :). We LOVED feeling the spirit of all the missionaries at the MTC and interacting with the young Elders and Sisters in the halls, in the cafeteria, and in our classes each day. 

It was fun to see the familiar faces of the Sampsons from St. George in our Senior Couples classes. They are off to Vanuatu near Fiji. 

And we got a few hours off to hit the famous BYU Creamery close to the MTC. The best part was hanging out with the nieces and nephews, Andrew, Ashley, and Tawni. They each had been gone all day in classes and work, but they still made time for us! Love those cute Barretts!