Stake Inservice for Seminary

Another day with Bro. Scott Beames from CES provided lots of wonderful teaching insights.  He has seen all of our teachers teach but one.  (Sister Erin Willis is in Arizona for two weeks.) 

This is Bernie Kirkpatrick.  She teaches our Junior and Senior seminary class. 

Last evening Jenny Schlecter invited all of the Juneau seminary teachers to a dinner with us and Scott Beames.  We had a wonderful visit with one another.  We learned that Heidi Malin served a mission in Siberia.  She told us wonderful stories of her mission.

This is Heidi and Michael Malin.  They are recently married.  Michael is a student and trying to decide between finance and business.  Heidi does work.  Her father is the Bishop of the 3rd Ward.  They teach with lots of enthusiasm and spirit. 

Jenny Schlechter is the Stake Seminary Supervisor.  Her help has been invaluable for Diane and me.  She and her husband Michael live very close to the Mendenhall Lake and Glacier.  The views are incredible.  Her husband Michael constructed his own cabin cruiser boat with a 4 stroke Yamaha motor and another for trolling.  If you looked at it, you would think it was on the salesroom floor waiting to be sold.  It is spotlessly clean.   She hosted a dinner last evening and served a wonderful soup and salad.  Diane fixed up a fresh pan cake loaded with raspberries.

This is Lynn Hirschi.  She just left Utah to come to Alaska because it was exciting to her.  She is in the medical field and works two shifts each day at two different medical clinics.  She teaches our Freshmen.  She team teaches with Erin Willis.  And she lives in the same apartment complex as we do.  Her apartment is directly above ours.

We had our in service meeting this morning in the Stake House this morning.  We used a polycom system for the sound and one outlying teacher used her computer to connect with mine on the church's vydio system. 

Mel Bingham flew in from Craig.  Penny James flew in from Yakutat.  If you don't live in Juneau, getting to Stake conference consists of an airline ticket and a hotel room.  That is no small commitment.