Youth Conference 2010--Special Olympics

Zac Cawley, Marissa Barnard, Julie Lund, Michael Campbell
and Katie


Thursday night fun pictures for the slide show
L-R Spenser Turner, Marissa Barnard, Julie Lund
Katie, and Zac Cawley

Weston Almeida (boy from our ward) and Julie

Everyone. Julie is front and Center almost, and I'm on the

very left.

Friday night, during the dinner

Our "Family"

Back l-r Emily Chamberlain, Mckenna Wright, Taylor ? Me and Mel

front l-r Brittany Ting, Peyton Startup and Katlyn Abeyta

All of the Youth Leaders

Julie is back row, 3rd from the left

Making the posters Friday night

closest going clockwise--Taylor ?, Emily Chamberlain

McKenna Wright, Tanner Farnsworth, Brittany Ting, Peyton

Startup, Katlyn Abeyta

Those funny boys

Greg Peterson, Tanner Howe, ? Tanner, Paul Russavage
Cheering on the athletes

Shortly after we got home, actually, it was the day we got home

from our trip, we were called by our Bishop and asked if we

would be a host family for 6 youth, for our Stake's youth

conference. We really had a good experience 2 years

prior, so I said yes. We had a nice group of girls, and the

boy family that we were linked up with, were dolls also.

The first evening we were involved, we had a hamburger

dinner, then Quinn Eliason talked to everyone about his

trip to India, and his Eagle Scout project donating 650

wheelchairs to the "Free Wheelchair Mission". The

slide show was pretty touching. Then after the

presentation from Quinn, the youth went over to a

dance. It was only about an hour and a half, but they

seemed to enjoy it. After that, we brought the girls

to our home, and the boy family later joined us. They

had to make posters for the Special Olympics. We

played a little game after the posters were made, (we

had scads of junk food and candy for them to have) had

a short devotional, and then it was midnight, and the

boys had to go to their host families home. The Johnson

family. The next day we had to arrive at Cal Poly Univ.

between 6 and 6:15 a.m. Eeeeek. I am not an early

riser. They fed us breakfast burrito's and then it

was off to getting set up. The youth got things going

in no time. At around 8:15, we marched on the track

and then made way for the Special Olympians.

What a sweet treat. So sweet and appreciative of any and

all recognition. We stayed until just after 2 p.m. and

headed home for a little R & R before dinner and the

testimony meeting. It was really such a sweet experience.

Then on Sunday, they had a fireside and Brother & Sister

Rockwood spoke. His message was to reach out to people,

and make a difference in their life, and your life.

I was enriched by the whole experience and I enjoyed my

time as a host parent again.