Too Much New to deal with the Old

I want to fill in the activities of the past 4 months as we got ready for our move, but first I have to mention a couple of encounters that have happened since we left Utah last Thursday.

1. Julie and I were sitting in the Salt Lake airport waiting for our flight to Atlanta and a neighbor of ours (flight stewerd for Delta) walked off the plane we are going to leave on.  We talked and he took a picture.  We seldom have a picture of Julie and I together.

2. As I finished washing my hands in the Atlanta airport bathroom I glanced up and in the mirror behind me I saw a face I recognized. It is Gonzalo Pena, the Venezuelan Stake President when we lived in Caracas 30 years ago. I was on the High Council under him. We were so involved in catching up on things that we forgot to take a picture.

3.  Last night while eating dinner in our hotel 3 men walked in.  They had the typical calm Mormon spirit about them but we were not sure.  To start a converstation with them, when we walked out we mentioned that it was nice to hear some English.  We quickly discovered that they were from Utah, Mormon, and 2 of them had friendship connections with our family.  One was Home Teaching companions with one of our sons-in-law and Bishop to a lady that Julie worked for for 13 years.  The other is married to a girl from our home Stake in California that Julie knew.  I knew the older brothers.