Zone Meeting...and the Ride Home

This transfer cycle we had in-person zone meeting in combination with the Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale and Ft. Smith zones.  That makes a big size group of missionaries including the senior missionary couples serving in the office (bless them, I wouldn't want to do their jobs), and two other couples serving in the other zones. It was fun to gather together and to be taught by President and Sister Collins and the other missionaries asked to speak.  We were ask to BOLT--Be on the Lord's Time! as we serve as missionaries.

We ate lunch with our district and then headed home...but you know Gary by now, he had found another route for us to visit on the way home.......

First we got to take a wandering country road that took us underneath one of the bridges of I-49 which goes from Bentonville to 1-40 in the south.  We love bridges as you know......

This particular bridge we actually traveled under on our train trip back in September, but the road is also a nice drive....

Gary had taken this route so that we could stop in at the Lancaster Bridge which was an old train bridge across a road way and also a small river.....

I took a close up of the heart on the side of this wall and sent it to Sister Janet Newbold who collects heart shapes photos.

I appreciate the work that has gone into building these bridges for the train tracks and road ways throughout the nation (and the world, of course.)  People are quite amazing to figure all of these details out and make something that last for decades.

A look at the train track from below.....

I don't know why, but I love bridges, old or new...I love walking around and across them (not this one, however) and taking photos of them.  I have a bucket list item of six US bridges that I found in a magazine article years ago--still have three more of those to see to cross off the bucket list item (in New York, West Virginia, and Florida), but I always love to see another bridge anytime.  Thanks, Gary, for another bridge!