Thoughts from a missionary mother
I recorded this podcast eight years ago while both of our sons were serving as full time missionaries
We took a trip to Yellowstone when Jeff was a Senior in High School.
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This is from 2011.
A couple weeks ago Jeff and Andy started making noise about wanting to take a road trip to California. Paul and I talked it over and we told the boys that they could take the trip, but two conditions had to be met first:
1. They had to take the trip north to Montana
2. Mom had to be sitting in the back seat
We had a great time traveling to Jackson Wyoming and then up to West Yellowstone Montana, hitting the Rexburg Temple, BYU Idaho, the Playmill Theatre (Where I was an actor the summer of 1987), and most of the west side of Yellowstone Park in the process.
It was a great time with my two boys and I am so glad we said yes. I truly tried to stay a fly on the wall as Jeff did most of the driving and I just offered little bits of Motherly advice….like, “Hey Boys, A blizzard is blowing outside the tent and we have no source of heat…maybe we should bail and find a motel room.”
As I tried to get warm the third night of our trip with a blizzard blowing and ice caking on the inside of the tent walls, I had the thought that I could wake up to 2 dead teenagers in the morning.
So that night we stayed at the Best Western in West Yellowstone and then upgraded from the tent site to a cabin at the KOA.
It was a once in a lifetime trip that I will never forget.
Jeffrey and Andrew took most of the photographs on our trip, but all of the videos and a few of the pictures were mine.
Jenny Hatch