Weston and Trenda
Today was Weston Hall's missionary farewell. He will be serving in the same mission his dad served in, the Argentina Buenos Aires South Mission. He brother Kendall is in Argentina right now serving in another mission.
Weston said there were two things that helped him prepare for his mission. One was scuba diving into the Book of Mormon instead of just swimming. He said Jacob 1:18-19 was especially meaningful to him. The other thing that helped him was attending missionary prep.
Weston is a very friendly guy and I think he will be an outstanding missionary.
Weston said that one of the things in his life that he was the most grateful for was his mom. He said that without her he probably wouldn't be going on a mission. It was a nice tribute.
Shelly Applegate was the youth speaker and she spoke on self-esteem and did a great job. Shelly is one of my favorite young women.
Elder White, one of our missionaries, spoke on service, and Bishop Miller finished up the meeting. I am excited for Weston and his family. He will be missed here in Vernon though.
Today in our Primary class we talked about the apostle Peter and his testimony. I gave the kids this handout on the five points of a testimony:
Jared had a date with Camie Burgi last night in Gilbert. They went to watch her son perform at a coffee house. He is the lead singer in a rock band. Today he is flying home to El Paso. Camie invited him to her house for lunch. Camie sent me this picture and message:
Elder White, one of our missionaries, spoke on service, and Bishop Miller finished up the meeting. I am excited for Weston and his family. He will be missed here in Vernon though.
Today in our Primary class we talked about the apostle Peter and his testimony. I gave the kids this handout on the five points of a testimony:
I had to make it bigger because it was so blurry.
I encouraged the children to include these five elements when they bore their testimonies and I asked Braylin if he would come prepared to bear his testimony next week in class.
These were the children who attended class today: Zemira, Braylin, Jolee, Kasey, and Ashten.
After the block John Wilhelm invited James and I into the bishops office. His father, Mel Wilhelm, who is the ward Sunday School president, was in the bishop's office waiting for us. John issued the call for James to be a Sunday School teacher and at this time be assigned to the Gospel Doctrine class. James said he would be glad to accept the call as long as he had a voice. He did say he was a little intimidated because he had never taught adults before. I am just sad that I won't be able to attend his lessons because I will be in Primary.
James came home and made us this for lunch:
A chili dog with onions and a salad.
Jared had a date with Camie Burgi last night in Gilbert. They went to watch her son perform at a coffee house. He is the lead singer in a rock band. Today he is flying home to El Paso. Camie invited him to her house for lunch. Camie sent me this picture and message:
"Jared came over for dinner. We wish you and James were here."
I sent this message back:
"You two look like you belong together. We wish we were there too!"
This afternoon we had a visit from our new home teachers, Dave Westbrook, and Austin Carroll. It was a nice visit. Dave is our age, and Austin is Maddie's older brother. He is probably in his early 20's.
When our home teacher's left we read our scriptures and from our book, "The Baron's Honourable Daughter." Afterwards we went on a Razr ride. Of course James blew his elk call but we didn't see any bulls, only a cow and a calf. Sorry, I didn't get any pictures.
We came home from our ride and watched a Hallmark movie.
The Galveston 3rd ward in Chandler has a new bishopric. The bishop is Eric Wanlass and his counselors are Brother Allen who was in the old bishopric, and Mike Ellsworth. There was also a boundary change and the ward lost several families to the Pleasant 1st ward, including: The McCook's, Max was sad because his best friend is one of the McCook boys, Brennan and Laurie Ray, Bishop Lewis, and Sister McAfee.
Church friends, Lynda Tanner, Sean Hunsaker, and Lorraine Vaught.
The Galveston 3rd ward in Chandler has a new bishopric. The bishop is Eric Wanlass and his counselors are Brother Allen who was in the old bishopric, and Mike Ellsworth. There was also a boundary change and the ward lost several families to the Pleasant 1st ward, including: The McCook's, Max was sad because his best friend is one of the McCook boys, Brennan and Laurie Ray, Bishop Lewis, and Sister McAfee.
Church friends, Lynda Tanner, Sean Hunsaker, and Lorraine Vaught.
Sister McAfee and her fans
Sister McAfee was the Primary chorister in the Galveston 3rd ward.
She is now in the Pleasant 1st ward and the Galveston 3rd ward has no chorister for their upcoming Primary Program.
These girls made it back to the south rim today. It wasn't easy, but they did it! Trystin hurt her knee and had to take the shuttle.
It looks like Sheri is smiling,
but she's really just gritting her teeth.
