The first 2 months of the year the Elder's Quorum (hereafter referred as EQ) Presdency consisted of Tylor More (President), Anthony Burgi(1st Councilor), Thad Jones (2nd Councilor) and Tanner Milne (Secretary). Anthony Burgi moved out of the ward and Steve Lesueur was made 2nd Councilor and then Tanner Milne moved out of the ward and Jeff Brummer became the Secretary. In September the EQ Presidency was reorganized and the following were called - Jeff Brummer (President), Brian Stephens (First Councilor), Steve Lesueur (2nd Councilor) and Jon Graff (Secretary).
We had a great year as a Quorum and enjoyed the blessings of the gospel and comrodary of the Brethren. Early in the year we had an Ice Cream Social at the Gissels home and had 20 show up to enjoy some frozen dairy delights with toppings. In November we had a EQ BBQ in which the Elders (and wives) made chili and we had a competition to see who had the best chili (Rachael Earl), hottest chili (Ryan Moats), most unique chili and best desert. We had 40-50 people show up including some non members and lesser actives. The Elders have enjoyed also playing basketball all year long on Tuesday nights. To date we have had no fights or major injuries so it has been a successful year.
We have had many great teachers instruct us in the hour we meet together as a Quorum including Brian Lawrence, Tylor More, Steve Lesueur, Thad Jones, Matt Tidwell, Jeff Brummer, Tanner Milne, Darren Peterson, Ryan Moats, Steven Powell, Brian Stephens and others. We also enjoyed seeing Levi Germaine receive the Melchizedek priesthood. Some new Elders that moved into the ward this year were Keith Hardy, Matt Sloan, Art Sherwood, Ed Clark, Joseph Hardwick, Bobby Pitts, Eric VanAusdal, Andrew Watts.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Rain Rain
Once again it is easy to talk about the weather and begin there. It has run quite a bit lately for Arizona and this is good news for our new beautiful lawn. Yes. After a year and a half of putting it on the back burner we have officially got the sprinklers to work. Dean actually was the mastermind and came over to help me finally do the electrical work and flush out the valves. He is pretty handy and we got it done in a couple of hours. We paid about $70 for parts and valves and another $100 for the sod. It is probably about due to be mowed, but it is so small it isn't worth buying a mower so I think Brian Stephens or Nick Perry is going to hook me up with their mower.
Nick Perry and I played ping pong yesterday in the garage of his place. It was so fun because we are pretty close skill wise and the garage was big enough to play and move around and the weather was perfect pong weather - 60 degrees. We played for an hour neck and neck and he ended up coming on top and winning the overall match.
Last night we went to the ward Christmas Party and it was pretty neat. We had ancient Mediterranean dishes like chicken and pitas and cucumber salad. We then got to see a version of the Nativity and the birth of Christ. I am not sure why but I haven't see a Nativity production in a few years. It was very peaceful and Cloe Nielson sang beautifully. Some of the kids from our Sunday school class that Lindsay and I taught were also in it and were Shepard - TJ Goodman, Dallin Johnson and Mitch Allred.
Lindsay and I also went to the Rockets last Saturday with Thad and Patsy Jones and Honey Milius and her daughter Corbin. It was pretty fun. We went to a Tapanyaki restaurant called Ichi Ban first and watch our chef from Brazil. It was really delicious. Lindsay looked beautiful. We had a blast. We went to Gammage theatre and by the time we got there 10 minutes before it started we realized that we were at the wrong theatre. We sped across town to the correct theater and showed up just on time for the big show. It was pretty awesome. I didn't have huge expectations for the show but I thought it was well done. The Rocketts did like four or five musical skits and then they did a pretty cool Nativity scene. I though this was the best part of the show because of how well it was done. There were even real camels that the wise men brought. Can you image that? In the middle of downtown Phoenix there were these huge camels. It was pretty neat to see. Anyway that wasn't the only thing I thought was cool. I was caught up in the Nativity and imagining how cool it would have been to see the Savior after he was born.
Funny story (if you weren't there): Friday night Lindsay woke me up and said that there was an alarm going off. In my half la la land state I realized that she was right. Not realizing that it was important I tried to go back asleep. Now unfortunately I was awake and couldn't go back asleep because of this high pitched alarm so I got up. Now keep in mind it was 2 in the morning and I was out of it. So I got out of bed and determined on the two brain cells that were functioning that it was coming from the hall outside our bedroom. So I had to get a chair from the office to get up to it. The chair was not very sturdy and I wasn't very stable in my sleepy state. I started trying to figure out one of the alarms and why it was beeping at an unusually loud tone. Now keep in mind that I have no home improvement skills and I wasn't sure what the heck I was doing. I worked on this one alarm for about 20 minutes and realized the beeping wasn't coming from that one but one further down the hall. By then I realized that I was going to lose sleep over this beeping and was beginning to get frustrated but I couldn't really blame the problem on anyone but myself because the next alarm I read that you are supposed to change those alarms batteries every year. By now it had been 2 years so they were due and probably going to die. So after another 20 minutes I just unplugged the alarm off the wall and picked up were I left off the next day after we went to sleep.
Nick Perry and I played ping pong yesterday in the garage of his place. It was so fun because we are pretty close skill wise and the garage was big enough to play and move around and the weather was perfect pong weather - 60 degrees. We played for an hour neck and neck and he ended up coming on top and winning the overall match.
Last night we went to the ward Christmas Party and it was pretty neat. We had ancient Mediterranean dishes like chicken and pitas and cucumber salad. We then got to see a version of the Nativity and the birth of Christ. I am not sure why but I haven't see a Nativity production in a few years. It was very peaceful and Cloe Nielson sang beautifully. Some of the kids from our Sunday school class that Lindsay and I taught were also in it and were Shepard - TJ Goodman, Dallin Johnson and Mitch Allred.
Lindsay and I also went to the Rockets last Saturday with Thad and Patsy Jones and Honey Milius and her daughter Corbin. It was pretty fun. We went to a Tapanyaki restaurant called Ichi Ban first and watch our chef from Brazil. It was really delicious. Lindsay looked beautiful. We had a blast. We went to Gammage theatre and by the time we got there 10 minutes before it started we realized that we were at the wrong theatre. We sped across town to the correct theater and showed up just on time for the big show. It was pretty awesome. I didn't have huge expectations for the show but I thought it was well done. The Rocketts did like four or five musical skits and then they did a pretty cool Nativity scene. I though this was the best part of the show because of how well it was done. There were even real camels that the wise men brought. Can you image that? In the middle of downtown Phoenix there were these huge camels. It was pretty neat to see. Anyway that wasn't the only thing I thought was cool. I was caught up in the Nativity and imagining how cool it would have been to see the Savior after he was born.
Funny story (if you weren't there): Friday night Lindsay woke me up and said that there was an alarm going off. In my half la la land state I realized that she was right. Not realizing that it was important I tried to go back asleep. Now unfortunately I was awake and couldn't go back asleep because of this high pitched alarm so I got up. Now keep in mind it was 2 in the morning and I was out of it. So I got out of bed and determined on the two brain cells that were functioning that it was coming from the hall outside our bedroom. So I had to get a chair from the office to get up to it. The chair was not very sturdy and I wasn't very stable in my sleepy state. I started trying to figure out one of the alarms and why it was beeping at an unusually loud tone. Now keep in mind that I have no home improvement skills and I wasn't sure what the heck I was doing. I worked on this one alarm for about 20 minutes and realized the beeping wasn't coming from that one but one further down the hall. By then I realized that I was going to lose sleep over this beeping and was beginning to get frustrated but I couldn't really blame the problem on anyone but myself because the next alarm I read that you are supposed to change those alarms batteries every year. By now it had been 2 years so they were due and probably going to die. So after another 20 minutes I just unplugged the alarm off the wall and picked up were I left off the next day after we went to sleep.
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