Sunday, February 7, 2021

Sometimes an Idea is Inspired

So last year I decided to do Missionary Moment Idea Memes and Post them to the Ward Relief Society Facebook page. It was a way to help support the sister missionaries and the ideas were from a list that the other counselor had picked up at a regional church meeting and the Relief Society president wanted to get out to the sisters of the ward.  This seemed like a good way to share them.  Above is one of my early attempts and I felt pretty good about them.  But I can see that I improved over time and the results are more polished.  



 I went from creating my own backgrounds to often using Canva for free backgrounds and fancy fonts.  Thought I did use some of my artwork occasionally--and Ellie's once. 

 

Of course, the original list was fine for the first couple of months when the pandemic was just starting to rear it's ugly head, but then those suggestions on the list that could adapt to social distancing friendly ideas soon ran out.  So I came up with Missionary Moment Thoughts based on recent talks or postings by General Authorities.

After offering a chance to the sisters in our ward to provide ideas, I finally got help from the other counselor, Jennifer Wassink, and she is now suggesting Family History/Temple work ideas that can be alternated with mine.  Plus Stake Conference gave me a bunch more ideas, so I am off and running again for this year. Hopefully we are in the home stretch.


Snow Fun


This is us on our honeymoon, September 1975, chaperoning the BYU Cougar Band.  Not exactly what we had planned!

But we still found time to have fun the winter of '76. We went snowshoeing up Provo Canyon, with Wayne Rodearmel and a friend, where we discovered that snowshoeing is harder than it looks and that pulling off the road on a back road is probably not a good idea if you don't know where the road ends and the ditch begins. However, if you are going to do that, do it with a Volkswagen Beetle--4 guys (2 cross country skiers who happened by) can pick one up.  Probably should have turned it around though, it was a long way back in reverse!