Driving to West Virginia

We finally have wifi and I can post something.
   We left the MTC on Feb 15. We were finished with our training by noon and decided to pack up and get on our way as opposed to waiting until Thursday to start out. That was a good decision as we were able to drive to Grand Junction, CO (242 miles) the first night. We saw lots of fairly unattractive country.
   The rest our our travels went as follows.
Grand Junction to Hays, Kansas then (585 miles)
Hays, Kansas to Mt Vernon Illinois then ( 591 miles)
Mt Vernon Illinois to Huntington, West Virginia ( 400 ish miles).
   We arrived at about 4:00 PM and were met by the full time Elders, the zone leaders. Zone leaders are two missionaries that keep track of and help put a group of about 30 other missionaries both Elders and Sister missionaries in a geographical area. So the Elders met us with our keys to this little apartment and helped us unload the car. They also went with us to Walmart where we bought groceries and other needed items. We then took the Elders to dinner and returned to our place where they helped us unload the car again. We are so grateful for their assistance.
   Pat and I worked to put stuff away and settle in for several hours. By about 11 PM we thought we should go in and make our bed.
   Now that's an interesting story. It was set up with no box spring, just 3 slats each with 2 posts holding them up. Not very secure looking. So for three nights we slept very carefully until on Tuesday our mission office apartment guy from Charleston, got us hooked up with a secure base and we are now comfortable.