McCall, Idaho

We went to McCall, Idaho for Labor Day weekend. It was great. We've never visited McCall before. It's a couple hours North of Boise. It was nice weather the first couple of days and then it cooled off quite a bit. We swam, hiked, rode horses, swam in the hot springs, and played some golf.

Probably the most memorable part of the trip was church on Sunday. There are two wards in McCall and they both meet in the same church. There building is being renovated and one ward has been having separate meetings between four houses and the other ward has been meeting in a barn. We thought it would be most exciting to have church in a barn. Well, it had been in the high 70s on Saturday, but on Sunday morning it barely reached 50 degrees. We didn't care because we knew church was going to be in a barn. We expected the barn to have walls and a closed doors, maybe even a big, fancy barn with heaters or something like that. We dressed warmer, but not warm enough for the barn we met in. It had no doors or walls in the front or the back. It was like meeting in a freezing, wind tunnel. It was dirt floors and there were two horses in there with us. We expected around 100 people to attend, but since it was a holiday weekend in McCall, there were a lot of visitors. 650 people attended church in the barn that Sunday. We froze, but heard some good talks from the local missionaries. The church services were suspended several times until the generators could be restarted. It was a memorable experience. I don't always remember what happened in church the week before, but we will all remember church in the cold barn in McCall.