On November 20th and 21st I had the opportunity to attend the Priest/Laurel Conference with Kassie, two of our young men and our Bishop. (Priests are young men ages 16 to 18 and Laurels are young women ages 16 to 18.) Bishop Burton drove our big red van (a.k.a. Clifford!) to the Northumberland area for the conference. Our weekend started with dinner and a dance on Friday night. During the dance I met the woman whose home we would be staying in. She was in charge of our service project for the next day and still needed to finish preparing for it. I spent most of my evening helping her to get ready. Before the night was over Kassie joined me along with Bishop Burton and another member of our ward that had traveled up separately. We had a nice time chatting while we worked. That night Kassie and I stayed at a member's home in Bloomsburg, PA. I got the single bed in the room and Kassie got the floor!
Before finding out where we would be staying Kassie said, "I hope we stay with a family that has a hot son!" As it turned out, we did!! He was 15 years old, reminded us of Edward from the Twilight movie, and was a real sweetheart! Kassie and I got a laugh out of that!
Saturday morning after breakfast the youth made pre-reading skill games for underprivileged children. The Church will send these overseas.
After the service projects were complete we were blessed to hear from Coach Larry Gelwix as our keynote speaker. Coach Gelwix is the winningest coach in America. In his 34 years of coaching he has 392 wins and only 9 losses. That's a 98% winning record. In the 25 years since the high school national tournament was implemented, his rugby team won the title 19 times, coming in second 5 times and in third place only once. He is a member of the church, and uses coaching principles and techniques that incorporate church standards. A movie was made based on the high school rugby team that he coaches. Forever Strong is a great movie, I highly recommend it!
Nick and Kassie meet and talk with Coach Gelwix.
Following Coach Gelwix's talk we had lunch and another dance. During Saturday's dance Kassie had a character drawing done by a young man studying art. I believe he studies out at BYU.
The trip there and back was long, but well worth it! It was a real honor to meet Coach Gelwix and hear his inspiring talk.
Before finding out where we would be staying Kassie said, "I hope we stay with a family that has a hot son!" As it turned out, we did!! He was 15 years old, reminded us of Edward from the Twilight movie, and was a real sweetheart! Kassie and I got a laugh out of that!
Saturday morning after breakfast the youth made pre-reading skill games for underprivileged children. The Church will send these overseas.After the service projects were complete we were blessed to hear from Coach Larry Gelwix as our keynote speaker. Coach Gelwix is the winningest coach in America. In his 34 years of coaching he has 392 wins and only 9 losses. That's a 98% winning record. In the 25 years since the high school national tournament was implemented, his rugby team won the title 19 times, coming in second 5 times and in third place only once. He is a member of the church, and uses coaching principles and techniques that incorporate church standards. A movie was made based on the high school rugby team that he coaches. Forever Strong is a great movie, I highly recommend it!
Nick and Kassie meet and talk with Coach Gelwix.Following Coach Gelwix's talk we had lunch and another dance. During Saturday's dance Kassie had a character drawing done by a young man studying art. I believe he studies out at BYU.
The trip there and back was long, but well worth it! It was a real honor to meet Coach Gelwix and hear his inspiring talk.
1 comment:
Hey a couple of those pics look familiar. ;0)
Glad the trip turned out well. What, no pics of the hot son?
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