The group said the activity was like some Reality TV show where they go around the world performing different stunts. Anyway, they divided into three groups and off they went.
Landon had submitted to having his lips enhanced by Bethany to imitate Arnold Schwarzaneger. At least that is what we all took the clues to mean.
Aubrey Welling is the 12 year old daughter of our 1st councilor in the Branch Presidency, Richard. Sawa is the wife of our 2nd councilor in the Branch Presidency, Robert Francis. Each group had to finish up with a karaoke performance, along with dancing, in order to finish with any self respect.
I don't know this young man's name. He comes occasionally with Leti and Marshall. But he and Bob Francis were having a great time with the karaoke.
Colt Franklin just returned from his mission in Germany. He has since been called to be the Elders Quorum President. He was selected from his group to eat the pudding as quickly as possible. I think he enjoyed any attention he could get his way this night.
Dillon Skrysinski was baptized in December. He is the only member in his family. His parents were supportive of his decision to be baptized. Nani Toetu'u invited him to listen to the missionaries after Dillon had asked her a few questions. Dillon bore talked in sacrament meeting Sunday and bore his testimony, telling us of feeling the Holy Ghost bare witness to him that what he was being taught by the missionaries was true. He has joined the national guard and will be going to Military Police training next month. He hopes to be finished in time to be deployed to Cuba with Nani's unit in September. Nani will be a great influence for keeping spiritually on track.
Margaret Sekona has just graduated from BYU Hawaii with a degree in sociology. She is now working here in Juneau and living with her family again. She has a wonderful testimony and is a great asset to the branch.
We meet in the Relief Society room for our YSA family home evenings. We usually have announcements for the coming week's activities followed by a spiritual lesson of some sort. Oh, and we always start with a song and a prayer. After the lesson we will have some treats provided by someone. They do that as turns. And then it usually breaks down to basketball or volleyball. This time we had the crazy Reality activity.
This is A. J. Collins and Justin Brink. A. J. turns 31 this month and we will lose him as he gets acclimated to the 2nd ward. He served his mission in Berlin. He is Choctaw Indian and has been our Elder's Quorum President. He has a very strong testimony and when he actually stops coming to be with us, we will miss him greatly. Justin Brink returned from a mission to Southern California just before Christmas. He is very friendly with the Toetu'u family as well. He seems to have a romantic interest in Nani Toetu'u. He often wears a Lava Lava to Sacrament meetings along with a pair of flip flops, a white shirt and a tie. His family isn't active and I think he would have liked to have been born a Tongan. He is a great asset to the branch.
Jeri Lynn Olsen is the Wife of our YSA Branch President. She and David Olsen, her husband, moved here from Montana a couple of years ago. They have four kids and two of them have been living here in Juneau off and on. Their daughter Jamie and her husband Zac, are attending BYU in Provo for this semester. They have been attending University of Alaska SE. Their son Eric and his wife had been living with the Olsens in their apartment. They have recently found an apartment of their own.
Jesse Adams is a returned missionary who served his mission in Mexico. He works at one of the local hotels. He has just been called to be the president of our YSA Institute class. He is doing a little karaoke singing and dancing with Karlyn Welling and her daughter Naomi. Karlyn is the wife of our Branch Presidency 1st councilor. Naomi is her daughter and is in our Freshman seminary class.
The first assignment in the game was to read our clues and find our way into the nursery. There was a diaper with a wad of brown stuff in it. One of each group was asked to eat the contents . We finally smelled the chocolate in the air and came to realize the gooey brown stuff was just rich brownie. It was a mental thing getting past that diaper and into the brownie. Justin Brink was up to the task.
Margaret Sekona was kept busy finding karaoke numbers for each of the groups to sing and dance to.
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