TREK 2014

Dave and I were priveleged to be called as a Ma and Pa for our stake trek this year. It was awesome! It was a great experience for us to go. It was hard and we had some rough moments physically, but we did it! Boy were we blessed with a great "family" and we had some really awesome spiritual  moments learning about the pioneers and our ancestors! I had no idea of all of my Garner and Bertoch ancestors that crossed the plains. It was a great learning experience.

Our "family" Angela, Desiree, Ian, Logan, Jonathan, Jonah, Abby and Kaela

Lindseys "family"

Katie's "family"

waiting for the kids at the top of Rocky Ridge

Katie's group coming up Rocky Ridge

Sweet Lindsey

Our family starting the women's pull

Katie's family on the women's pull

Kate the Great deep in thought

Dave and I looking exhausted :/ yikes!

Someone caught this picture of Katie praying in Dans cove... I love it.

So, months ago when we were called to be a Ma and Pa Dave and I were actually really worried. We aren't in peak performance, as many know... but we really wanted to go and felt that the Lord wanted us there too. Dave went on scout camp just a few weeks before trek and really struggled physically with the hiking. Matt even told me he didn't think that Dave should go on trek. So we were praying really hard that he would be okay. Our kids were praying really hard too. We treked a total of about 28 miles and on the hardest day (13 hrs) we were amazed that Dave had no difficulty. It was hard for him, but he was not huffing and puffing like we thought he would be.  He was able to do it without much problem at all. He had a few blisters on his feet,  but cardiovascularly he was fine! We kept up and it all went so well. We felt like it was really a miracle on it's own. Incentive to get out there and get in shape too!! We loved it. I only share this story because it felt like a miracle to us. We got home and I told Ellie about how well he did and she said, "That's because I was praying for him the whole time Mom." :)