Scera Pool: A nice place to have a Stake Activity

We recently had a Stake Activity at the Scera Pool.

 The activity was really fun. We had pulled pork sandwiches with coleslaw, beans, watermelon, and apples. They had a punch, water, BYU brownies, and cookies. It was certainly a nice treat. They also had a dunk tank set up along with a volleyball net and a soccer area.

Bro. and Sis. Mower were there helping preparing the food, and we saw many familiar faces around.

I then had to leave, unfortunately and fortunately, for it was time for our softball team, the Good Sports, to play in the tournament. They played really well and held up strong against the opposing team, but alas it was not meant to be. They had a lot of fun though and they grew together as a team.

The Most Talented of Talent Is Here for Us Tonight

And Here Are Our Hosts Bob and Bob:

Tyler Mower and Ben Haymond were our hosts for the evening (AKA Bob and Bob), but little did we know that the Bobs had many faces, as seen from these series of pictures.

 They also got really enthusiastic about their roles as Bob. The first up on the program was Kelsie Everson, sorry that I didn't get a picture of you. She did a fabulous job on her guitar. She sang a song about the Death of a Salesman. We then had Nathan Oaks and Grant Myres doing a sea shanty and a duel between a violin and a recorder. It was quite fun.

From there we got the special treat of hearing Jacob Selman serenade us with his fabulous piano skills. He performed a nice montage of several songs that were anything from pop songs to classical pieces. It was truly a treat to listen to.

Justyne Willets then gave us the privilege of hearing some of her original work, along with letting us see her fabulous baking skills. The chocolate ganache cake with raspberry filling and butterflies was wonderful to eat and to look upon. The song itself was also fabulous, much like the cake. It was extremely nice to listen too and left everyone happy.

Next up was Josh Guerrero and his fabulous singing voice. He was accompanied by Dan McIntosh and had some help from Jacob Selman in turning pages. Josh blew the house away with his piece. I hope that if you didn't get a chance to hear him at the Talent Show then you at least heard him in Sacrament meeting where he sang in a quartet.

The two goofballs of the ward were next. Dan McIntosh and David Wilde played a guitar and piano piece in which they had their own lyrics and a movie to go along with the song. It was all about our times in the ward and brought a tear to many an eye.

Our last official performance was done by Sheridan Merkley, Brittany Richards,  Josh Guerrero, and Heath Sanford. I know that my pictures did not do this skit justice, so look for the video off of the Facebook page. They did a fabulous job and it was so funny to watch them. It was like watching Who's Line is it Anyways? all over again.

 We then had a little surprise for Bro. Lee. We were told that he was going to give us a solo, so we got him up on stage.

We couldn't let him sing alone though, so Bro. Hubert was invited to come up on stage also.

But then we were leaving Bishop out of the loop, so up he came on stage.

But the Bishopric didn't think this was very fair, so it turned into a whole entire Priesthood musical number. The boys all did a very good job with a Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief.

It was then time to say who won the dessert competition. The Lee kids were very gracious in announcing that Nick Jones won with his bean empanadas. Thanks to the participants of the food competition and our judges for making it fun. Nick walked away with a pretty nice water gun and managed to get the girls before they got him.

Also thanks to Rachel May, Michelle Hagfeldt, and Matea Trevino in their contribution to the art section of the Talent Show. They all did a fabulous job.


As a side note, there have been several pictures posted from the Ward Camp Out, the Ward Temple Trip, and a Bonfire. Please check the ward Facebook page to see these wonderful pictures.
 

Trivia Night: The Greatest Knowldege Test Against Peers

Tyler Mower gave us a really nice treat for trivia night this week. It was really good! We had a lot of people come and join us over at the Mower's. We ended up being on their lawn and Tyler did a quiz type Trivia Night. He would say the question and how much that question was worth. We then wrote down what we thought the answer was and then grade ourselves based off of the honor code. It was a great way to go about testing our knowledge on our great country! Dan McIntosh ended up winning with a close call between Ben Haymond and Bro. Mower. It was a really exciting ordeal. Dan ended up winning one of Tyler's T-shirts, as in one that he made. The rest of us enjoyed Bro and Sis. Mower's famous homemade cobbler and some lemon bars. We then had our own firework show, also provided by Tyler. It was really fun and we all enjoyed each others company.
Trivia Night is a great tradition in which the person who hosts gets to pick the topic, the prize for the winner, and how the questions are going to be answered. It is a great time for each of us to get to know each other better and to test our knowledge. If you guys would love to join, including the Bishopric and their families, we have it every Wed. at 9pm in All. 14. So tell your friends and come and join us for a night of fun and learning.
(PS. Sorry for the lack of pictures. I forgot to take pictures. T-T)

Softball: A Whoops and Some Fun

Sorry, for the image quality, the lights were really bright and this is my phone that I'm using. But over all our Softball team has great potential. They were doing great for it being 7 players against 10 players. It was a lot of fun to see our friends in action to try and stop the other team from getting onto base. We did have a slight accident. Josh Guerrero tried to catch a pot fly and ended up catching the ball with his face, unfortunately. Josh is fine though, just a couple of stitches and looking like a panda for a couple of days. This made it that we were down by two players though. We did really well though and hope to possibly win the next game. You guys should all go and support them and then support the Ultimate Frisbee team that was just put together. Here are some pictures from the game.

World Wide Leadership Training

Here is a recap for those of you who were unable to watch or would like a reminder of this spiritual event. The broadcast itself was done very beautifully. The choir was really big and they sang wonderfully. The Church even showed off what their technology can now do. Doing live phone conferences to Washington DC; Lima, Peru; and Hawaii. They also helped us to define what our Quorum of the 70 is around for. They are here to help preach the gospel and to be a witness unto the Gentiles. We are then to look at our area 70 for guidance in what we should be doing for Missionary work.
 Along these lines, Missionary work has moved forward in the fact that Missonaires can now use e-mail, Facebook, and mormon.org to contact people. They have even started to open up meeting houses, so then people can take a look inside of our churches. And this brings us to the main point of this meeting, that we as members all need to be ward missionaries.
What this means is that we should be willing to talk to people about our religion. I don't mean that we should go forth and try to convert someone on our own. I'm saying that if there is someone in your life that seems interested and asks you a lot of questions about religion then say, "Hey, I have these two friends that are totally willing to answer any questions that you might have about my religion. Would you like to meet with them?" Sounds simple enough but I know that you will need to have some courage, but if we pray for the strength and courage then we can all meet someone that will be willing to be spiritually uplifted. I believe that this was the main message that the First Presidency was trying to tell us, and so we should honor this request by trying our hardest to be Ward Missionaires. Let's put our best foot forward and strive to do our best. I know that we can do it.

The Peak of all Peaks: Seven Peaks

Hey Everyone!
I hope that all of you had a great time at Seven Peaks, but for those of you who missed it, here are some highlights.
We had a wonderful breakfast, courtesy of the Stake, and then got to play to our heart's content. I didn't see a lot of you, but what I did see looked like you were all having a lot of fun. I saw a huge dog pile on a couple of tubes in the wave pool. I also saw lots of people around the slide area. Overall, I had a blast though and I hope you guys did too. Oh, and I haven't seen anything else on the monster yet, but enjoy some of the pictures below.

The Great and Wonderful Slip 'n Slide

Hey Everyone! It's now time to talk about The Great and Wonderful Slip 'n Slide, and as you can see there is Nate showing off his mad Slip 'n Slide skills (Loud and Uproarious Applause). We all had a great time. We had a water balloon fight, Frisbee golf, Frisbee, soccer, volleyball, slip n' side, and of course lots of water! Here are some of the pictures of the activities. (To hear about the Mystery continue reading.)

But let's not forget that we also had a huge water target during the activity. Tyler Walke was a great sport and was the rabbit for all of the guys. David Wild gave a valiant effort but Tyler was just too quick for him. Tyler was caught though and then tried to go after David but failed also. Overall it was a great activity with a great ward, another ward (the 167th ward), great games, and of course great food (JDawgs). And of course what activity isn't complete without a mystery. While I was in my car I managed to find a creature that kind of looked like this.

He has a tail, is very fuzzy, black, has horns, and can swim. I was like it's either a monster, a yokai, or a goblin. I just didn't know what it was and of course I couldn't get a picture of it but if you wanna go look for it later then I'm game.Well that's it for this post. Look forward to the next one, and to more monster sightings. It will be the Peak of all Peaks: Seven Peaks.
Matea