Sunday, February 8, 2026

Weekend Started Early at Lakeside

Andrew asked me if I wanted to play golf with Mark and Jerry and him at Lakeside on Friday.  Of Course I did.   It was the day after Parent Teacher and I was thinking I would never get a sub.  I did get people to cover my classes so I was out of there.

We headed to Lakeside and it was beautiful  Jerry couldn't go, so it was just the three of us.  We tried calling Nick and he didn't answer.  We didn't know if they filled the spot until we got there.

These are the only pics I got.  I thought I got more, but I must have been too busy in the moment to worry about pics.  This is Mark. 



Love a good Lakeside.  

Andrew 

And me.  I decided to ride although it was so beautiful and the course is flat.  My foot was hurting so ride it was.  Andrew and Mark both walked.  They are so tough and sporty.  


Then we headed to the El Matador for Lunch. Beautiful day, good golf, good food AND good company.  And missed work.  Best day we all had in a long time. We need to do it again soon

Abi and Brody also had an early start to the weekend. They headed to Waste Management Golf Tournament on Thursday in Arizona.  

They saw Tony Finau and Jordan Spieth


This is hole 16 which is the wild hole where people throw bottles and stuff when someone makes a good shot.  They said it was Super fun.  I wanted to go this year, but didn't get around to getting tickets.  Maybe next year!  




Basketball again and Sun Hills

Church Ball rolled around this week.  Andrew and Nick both showed up to play.  Nick came down from Utah State to play the game.  

                                          Andrew is 32 in the white


Nick is 33 white

I showed up a few minutes late, and as soon as I walked in, someone said that I missed his Three point basket.  He scored a few more baskets also.  Andrew also scored




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After basketball, I played some golf.  Yes, February we played at Sun Hills

Getting ready



It was a beautiful day.  Not too cold, but absolutely perfect.  This is the only pic I got.  I could put any pics of golf and no one would know if it wasn't Sun Hills.  



These pics were my friend Kim's photos she posted to Facebook.






There is NO snow anywhere.  That might make for a pretty dry summer.  We can't do anything about it, so might as well play winter golf.  

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Brooke and Andrew Visit and Abi is Official

Brooke and Andrew came to visit me on my prep one day.  I think we were figuring out my data breech and identify theft.  And they brought me a drink and some licorice.  

Then I found these notes all over my plan book and behind my sliding white board.  Love the Ton.   Love that they think of me.  It was fun to have love from the Ton when I turned the page of the plan book.



AND I looked up the Abi in Arizona.  She is Official.  She is accepting new patients and has just had her one year anniversary.  Way to go.  


Then this came up on my feed for memories a year ago.


Wow one year go we started the Mission thing and now he has been gone for almost 9 months.  I keep track by how many payments I have made...:)  And how many aspirin tablets I have left in my jar that I started on his first day of his mission.  The bottle came in a two pack and each bottle has 365 pills.  I have that black line left for one year count.  



I sure miss Jack AND Abi






 

Monday, February 2, 2026

Member giving us anti???? - Jack's email from Alaska

This week was pretty mid again. Our area seems to be slowing down but we have been trying to do our best and working our hardest to find those ready to hear the gospel. We had a couple lessons this week though that went really good. But let's get into the week!! 

 1/27: we had DC today so that was cool. Seeing the other missionaries is always super fun. We had zone lunch afterwards and that was also a blast. We did a lot of stop bys afterwards and then and then had some good dinner at our members house. Kinda awkward but it was pretty good.

 1/28: we had a lesson with our friend wess today we honestly just discussed the gospel and what it actually is. We talked a lot about the book of mormon and invited him to keep reading it. We then had dinner at the Polynesian ladies house. This time was good food so that was a shocker 

 1/29: we did weekly planning today and pretty much called our whole area book cus we are so desperate. We then did some stop bys and ended up helping a member move today. We got a text from a guy who said we can teach him so we hustled over there afterwards and had a pretty good lesson. 

 1/30: we had exchanges today so I went into another area which is always cool to just see the other areas. The guy i was with is definitely a slower worker. We had dinner and he got mad cus I didn't wanna break the rules with him so he was a little angry about that. But it was a good day overall.

 1/31: we went tracting today in the morning for a little bit. We then took lunch and got told the zls were coming with us on exchanges randomly. So we did that and I was with an old comp Elder Rhoades. We had a lesson with our friend Tammy and that was hecka powerful.

 2/1: Jeff came to church today! So that was a cool miracle! We went home and had lunch. Went and had Correlation meeting with the ward today. While we were at sacrement meeting a member found anti in a grocery store bathroom and gave it to us cuz he thought it would be funny. It was honestly such a wild story lol. We also had dinner with them and it was hecka good.

 Spiritual thought: I was reading in exodus when Moses is getting called as a Prophet and I think it was cool because he didn't feel adequate at all. He is also one of the best prophets we've ever had. It just goes to show when you are called to do something it's for a reason.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Church Basketball has begun

Nick heard Church Basketball was happening and they were short players.  He drove from Logan to make the 7:00 am game.  Andrew had something else to do that day so he couldn't go.

Nick took a lot of shots, but didn't make any.  Well, maybe one.  But the other team didn't have enough players so we won by default.

Look at these action shots

Most people have their wives there to watch and Nick and his mother.  Josh, his bff at basketball says he thinks its fun that his mom comes to watch and he wishes his wife would come...I'm sure he wants his mother to come too



Might need a bigger shirt for next week...:)