29 January 2023

 

Gibson was ordained a priest on Sunday. His friends, Cason and Jason also advanced to the office of priest.

The priesthood ordinations happened during priesthood meeting so our family attended the Young Men's opening exercises. Helen sat with Gibson and their friends and even played the piano for the opening song.

We didn't realize our public library kept copies of all of the past yearbooks from the high school until Becky saw the yearbook with Helen's cover design on the shelf this week.

Helen also designed a logo for DECA that the team made into T-shirts.

Helen was Rotary Student of the Month for January. She attended their weekly meetings where she met the members and led the pledge each week. She also represented the high school at January's school board meeting and at a city council meeting. Her responsibilities ended on Wednesday with a 10 minute speech to the Rotary members. This is a photo of her school principal, Scott Dippel, introducing her before she gave her speech.

She gave a terrific speech about success only being meaningful if it is achieved in an effort to help other people.

Brandan and Becky attended the meeting to celebrate Helen's achievement and hear her speech. We were impressed with her confidence and generous remarks.

Becky's Algebra I students learned about scatterplots so we made a giant scatterplot on the wall, comparing the heights of students to their shoe sizes. The shortest student she has in class is 4 foot 8 inches tall and wears size 2 shoes. The tallest student is 6 foot 5 inches and has size 18 shoes.

This weekend has been our stake conference. Elder Hal Hunsaker was the area authority who presided over the conference. He lives in Wenatchee, Washington, where Nate's family lives. He served as stake president when Nate's Dad was on the high council. It's a small world!