He's off to Italy

It was a long trip to Italy that began Tuesday morning at 2:30 am. Zach, along with about 17 other missionaries began their journey to Rome at the Salt Lake City airport. The first leg of their journey took them to Dallas. Here they were anticipating a 5 hour layover. This turned into nearly an 8 hour layover. We were fortunate to talk to Zach on the phone while he waited. Macee Morey and Tristen Martinie (2 of Zach's good friends from high school) came over to share in our conversation on the speakerphone. At one point Zach spoke to us in Italian and it sounded absolutely amazing. After finally making it to London, their connecting flight had already departed so they waited for the next available flight to Rome. After nearly 36 hours of travel, Zach arrived in Rome around 4pm Rome time on Wednesday. We did get a nice picture of him at the Mission Home letting us know he arrived safe and sound. We are looking forward to getting his first email sometime this next week and getting his thoughts on his first impressions.

All the new missionaries in the Mission Home with President and Sister Waddoups