YSA Christmas Dinner

YSA Christmas Dinner
December 28, 2012
Elder Tom Waldron & Sister Diane Waldron

Sister Jerilyn Olsen prepared a wonderful meal of chicken caserole, baked potatoes, beans, bread and pies.   Diane helped Jerilyn with the prepartions in the afternoon while I cleared snow from the side walks. 

Our Relief Society President, Elizabeth Munoz, and our Elders Quorum councilor, John Mikesell, prepared and decorated the room.  We will miss them both starting next week.  They are off to BYU Idaho.

Elder Knudsen from Kansas with John Mikesell and Elizabeth Munoz

 

A Kaufmann girl we don't know yet with Paula Munoz and Hannah Stauffer.  Paula has had a rough summer and fall recovering from serious foot surgery.  Now the other foot must have the same surgery.  Hannah is a BYU Provo student and the daughter of our Past Stake Relief Society President, Carol Stauffer.

 Leti "Hotsauce" Kelepi and Dillon Krywseski. Leti is our slap dancer and Dillon was just baptized two weeks ago.

Leti opening his white elephant.  Actually the kids brought pretty nice white elephants.  We wrapped up a couple of Tabernacle Choir CDs and placed them in a container of Diane's cookies.  At the end of the game they were grabbed until they could be grabbed no more.

Marshall Sargeant and Justin Brink
Marshall is a convert of two years and attends our Missionary Preparation class.  Justin returned from the Carlsbad, California mission two weeks ago.

These are the daughters of our first councilor in the Branch Presidency, Richard Welling.  Mallory is down front, Aubrey and Naomi in the back.  Naomi is in the Freshman seminary class and is quite the cross country runner.

Stacey along with Eric Schlechter and Tuavao Maake.  Stacey lives here in Juneau.  Erik and Tuavao are students at BYU Idaho visiting until next week.

Tuavao, Ky Clark and Gabi Larsen.  Ky and Gabi are students at a school down south and are engaged to be married.  Ky is the son of Bishop Clark from here in Juneau.  Gabi joined the church two years ago here in Juneau.

I haven't met the girl on the Left yet.  In the middle is Bethany Munoz who lives here in Juneau.  Bryce Anderson is a student at BYU Idaho and hangs pretty close to Bethany when he is home visiting.