ASL Board of Education!!

Rick was recently in the Church News. You can read the article HERE! 

L to R: Elder Mella (Area Seventy), Emmalee Christensen (S&I Teacher/ Chair of FSDY & Deaf Symposium), Bishop Hodson(SLV 2nd Ward), President Sutton (Mesa Branch), President Merrill (DC Branch), Elder Peter M. Johnson, (General Authority Seventy), Bishop Ballard (Provo Ward), President Hancock (FL Branch), Rick Jensen (S&I ASL Coordinator), President Stringham(Provo Stake)

Bryce Canyon

Rick and I went to a Seminary and Institute Convention at Bryce Canyon Thursday over to Friday. We stayed at Ruby's Inn and went to various classes. All of the classes were SO well done! We really enjoyed them. They also provided nice meals and a spread of snacks between meals. I wanted to go hiking in Bryce Canyon Thursday evening, but Rick wasn't feeling well and it was starting to rain and so we headed back to Ruby's Inn. It was fun seeing and visiting with friends of ours that we hadn't seen in a long time! 

Seminary Graduation!

Tonight was Seminary graduation for Jaiden! Jaiden and Emily were asked to do the musical number and they sang Rick's arrangement of "Israel Israel, God is Calling." If I am able to get a video of them singing it some time I will add it to this post. 'They did a nice job and the speakers did a good job also. I am so grateful for Seminary!! 

Jaiden -- Pre-School Graduation and Seminary Graduation! 

(Jaiden and Emily -- 5th grade and 12th grade!) 

Family History Presentations, Church Lessons, and Seminary Council

Janelle got called to meet with a member of the Stake Presidency this morning along with her parents. So we went and she was called to the Seminary Council for next year! She is very excited! She knows a few of the others who have been called and they all happen to be in her friend group. She has a great group of friends!

Today Rick had the Come Follow Me lesson. He assigned each of the kids a chapter from today's lesson and said that some time today they had to come up with an art project depicting that chapter. He assigned it as follows: Jaiden -- Mosiah 25, Janelle -- Mosiah 26, Jenna -- Mosiah 27, and Josh -- Mosiah 28. They came up with some great work! Here is a picture of each of their art work:

Jaiden (Mosiah 25): 

Janelle (Mosiah 26):

Jenna (Mosiah 27): (The angel appearing to Alma and the four sons of Mosiah)

Alma with his parents...

Josh (Mosiah 28): (The sons of Mosiah refusing the throne and then preaching to the Lamanites)

The other homework they had for today (the kids had a busy day today) was a "Family History Presentation" for Memorial Day. Each of the kids were asked to research an ancestor and present it to the family Sunday night. They looked up pictures and histories on Family Search and put together a Power Point presentation on Google Slides. In between all of this we skyped Janika and Brandon and had a delicious dinner of barbequed salmon, squash, broccoli, beans, rice and salad with ice cream for dessert!

We then had the presentations! Jenna did her presentation on my Grandma, Lucille Erskine Westra Burgener. Josh did his on my grandpa, Joseph Ate Westra. Jaiden did hers on Grandpa Jensen's Grandma and Janelle did hers on Louelle Mcgee, my mom's grandma. We decided to invite Grandma and Grandpa Westra to join us through a zoom call for the presentations. They turned out great and even Grandma and Grandpa learned a few new things about their parents/grandparents! It was also nice that my mom and dad could clarify and correct any missing or ambiguous information. It was a fun activity and nice to be able to see and visit with Grandma and Grandpa!

Then we watched all of the Mother's Day Tea and Father's Day Flee videos through the years since Rick has been working on them all and adding them to our YouTube Channel. So it was really a "family filled" day!

Janika's Seminary Graduation

Tonight was Janika's Seminary Graduation at our Stake Center.  Since she is the Seminary President for Tuacahn High School, she was responsible with helping to plan the graduation.  She opted to sing rather than speak at it and so she and Kiara Christensen sang a duet, "He Is The One," and it was beautiful!  We are proud of Janika for the service she has given in Seminary this year!