One of our main CES missionary responsibilities is to conduct the BYU-I Pathway program for a cohort of 26 young adults at the Anchorage Institute.  In this photo part of our group is putting on a skit for class last week.  We meet each Thursday evening for 2 1/2 hours.  We missionaries teach a Book of Mormon class; then the students (directed by a "lead student") review together what they have been learning in their BYU-I online class.  These are dedicated students who are eager to try out college, and we hope to help them feel confident and successful in pursuing their education.

 

 Our tradition is to invite all the Anchorage YSA's to the Institute Building to watch the Saturday sessions of General Conference together.  They start arriving about 7:30 am to eat breakfast cereal before the first session starts at 8:00 am.  Between sessions we serve taco salad.  Here are some of our young men assembling some amazing creations from all the ingredients we have laid out.  There has been an enthusiastic response to the announcement of lowering the age for missionaries.  In the mission preparation class, we had two new 19 year-old young women who had already seen their bishop.