Well.....we're finally here at the DL&L Missionary Compound!

Wow, it finally came true. We're here. This is our first post to our blog. We'll see how this goes.

Spencer came up first on Thursday April 21st 2016 and Gaylene followed the next day. It was the day after finals at BYU and since she works in the Testing Center she needed to finish up.

DL& L stands for Deseret Land and Livestock Ranch. It is owned by the Church and is over 250,000 acres. We, the Trek Mission, uses about 20,000 acres on the south end of the ranch. We are 10 miles west of Evanston, WY in Northern Utah. The ranch boarders the north side of I-80 and goes to about a mile south of Woodruff, UT. The missionary compound is about 3.5 miles from the gate off of I-80 Exit 191 Wahsatch. (Yes, it is spelled with an "h")

The first day and second was all about setting up your trailer and getting all the hook ups and stabilizers set and leveled. They also provide propane so we disconnect our propane tanks and hook up to the big propane tank via underground pipes that are arranged at the 13 trailer plots. What was nice was once one missionary was finished they helped the others who just arrived. Some of the missionaries are not campers and never have stayed in trailers. So the more experienced ones help out and make sure they are safe and secure in there setups. Past missionaries have built porches and wooden steps for each trailer so you don't have to use the fold out steps on your trailer. So once you were done other missionaries would drive a flat bed trailer carrying the porches and steps and set them in place. So you were never idle and the whole compound was bustling.


I was one of the first ones to arrive so it looks like I'm alone, there are other rows.

 
Here are some of the others.


In the background, you can see the trek center. That is where we build and store (for the winter) the handcarts. We also park the farm trucks just outside the center. As you will see there were some free loaders during the winter in our trucks. So as we set about putting batteries back in them and servicing them we found this.

Pack rats made there nest for the winter. They pick up everything and place them in the engine compartment.

Welcome to our mission. This is what we now have to clean up.

Fun.
Here are some other pictures of inside the trek center.