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Before leaving Denver, we visited the Denver Temple.  We met Shalyn Larsen there.  She lived in our home in Murrieta while she was on her mission to our area.

As you can see, it was cold and cloudy.  Did you notice Shalyn has bare legs.  I wished I'd had sweat pants on under my skirt.  It was COLD!!

This is what the rest of Colorado looked like:

When we got to Kansas, it was snowing so hard that often we couldn't see 100 feet in front of the car.  The snow was blowing horizontally across the road.  We would get behind an 18-wheeler and stay there, letting them break the storm ahead of us.
We finally gave up in Colby, Kansas and hunkered down.  As we entered the little store by the hotel, looking for munchies, we ran into two sister missionaries.  How fun was that!!!!
This morning we woke up to blue skies and sun.  It was beautiful.

We got a call from our mission president.  We will be stationed in Rensselaer, Indiana (pronounced like rencil - eer.  Rhymes with pencil-eer)  It is a small branch made up of dairy farms and corn fields.  Two city-slickers like us will fit right in.

Most of Kansas looks like this:

You may think that it looks exactly like Wyoming AND Colorado, and it does a little.  But whereas Wyoming was just empty space, Colorado had grazing land, and Kansas had farms.  

We found the Kansas City Temple.  It is very beautiful.

The freeways here are crazy.  I'm so glad I'm not trying to read a map, but I'm using the GPS on the phone instead.  You'd think coming from Southern California, I'd be okay driving freeways, but these roads really intimidate me.

Tomorrow:  visiting Independence, Missouri and on to St. Louis.