We Love To See The Temple

We went to the San Diego Temple to do Baptisms for the dead. It was a really nice experience. The youth always look forward to providing these saving ordinances for those who have passed away with out a knowledge of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is a picture of the group that attended right outside the doors of the Temple.

What are Temples for?

Then of course after working in the Temple we took our traditional trip to In-N-Out Burger. That is what a hamburger is all about!

Gary Allen found a hat that he could ware. He looks like the manager. I bet he could have gone behind the counter and started barking orders and everyone would have listened.

Gary and Bliss Allen. They moved into the ward about 6 months ago I think. Bliss works with the Young Women. Gary is a Sunday School Teacher to the 12-13 year olds, however he has helped us quite a bit being an additional leader on YM events when needed. Thanks Gary!

Amy (MiMi) Knox at In-N-Out. One of our favorites!

I figure if I keep posting enough of these pictures on the www he will stop posing like this:)

Some of our lovely young women!

Erin and a couple of her favorites. She has a lot of favorites!

Shooting Pool Instead of Shotguns

We have been working on our Shotgun Shooting Merit Badge for some time now and we thought we would give the kids a break from the classroom lecture setting, and go to the local billiard and shoot some pool instead.

Shaver Lake 2008

Just in case you missed the video that Brett put together - here it is. Picture quality is less than perfect, but that is not Brett's fault it is YouTubes fault. Still fun to watch though...

Create

The video posted a little weird. I think it was produced for widescreen and our blog is not able to support it. If you would like you can go to URL and watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhLlnq5yY7k

Shotgun Cleaning Training By: JP & Jimmy James

We are working on our shotgun shooting merit badge. James and Jared prepared a presentation on cleaning a shotgun and keeping you gun clean and safe.

James brought some clay pigeons and took the boys out front and through them so the boys could see how they fly.

James and Jared did a good job. Thanks guys!

Air Bands 2009

The Woodland Park Young Men have invited the youth from our ward, the Felecita Ward and the San Marcos Ward to participate in Air Bands 2009. The first Wednesday of the 2009 the Teachers and the Priests planned and practiced what they would be doing for their Air Bands. From the looks of it - it looks like we are going to have some pretty good gigs. We were planning for the night of the event to land on March 20, 2009, but it did not work out due to a Wedding reception that was planned for the same night. We moved it to April 17, 2009. Below are some pictures that were taken while the kids were practicing... It is going to be a ton of fun both for the kids and the parents.

YES on PROP 8

This evening we went to The Rock Church in Point Loma to visit with former San Diego Charger now Pastor Miles McPherson with the YM to attend a Youth Rally in support of Proposition 8. It was a neat experience to go down and see how many people, young and old, are interested in protecting the sacred institution of Marriage. Sometimes the news and media will try to make you feel like you are the only one that cares anymore. Sometimes when you feel like you are alone on something it is easy for society, or the media to make you think that you are being unreasonable or even discriminatory, but to be with the good people of The Rock Church and many others we were able to see that we do not stand alone, that in fact there are a lot of people out there that are trying to uphold and protect Gods Laws.

Unfortunately though just as we arrived The Rock had to close their doors because they were filled to capacity (4,000 seats!). We were a little disappointed along with thousands of others. But the boys seemed to make the best of it. As we were wandering back to our cars to go home, they found a field of grass that you could run around on. Then they found a soccer ball. So they started playing soccer. There was a small group of girls their age that was eye balling them the whole time. Finally one of the girls got the nerve to ask the boys if they could play too. So at first we thought that our night was going to be bust, but instead it turned out being a pretty fun night.