Another Challenge

First of all I want to thank Tawnia for coming up with this idea. I accept Tawnia's challenge. I also like several of the suggestions she made and have chosen one of them to be my challenge for the reunion. I challenge everyone to read the Book of Mormon. If you read it as a family it will count for everyone who is there and awake during reading time. The prize will be a special scripture bookmark that I'll make for each one who accepts and completes this challenge, so let me know if you're going to do it so I know how many to make. Anyone who makes a challenge should take their own challenge. It wouldn't be right to challenge you to read the Book of Mormon and not do so myself. So let's see how I do, too. I know a couple of people who are planning to read it between now and the end of the year but my challenge is to have it read by the reunion. If you're almost finished read it again but if you're somewhere in 1st Nephi you don't need to start over unless you want to. What other challenges are we going to have?

Challenge #1

Okay - so I haven't heard a whole lot of feedback on these challenges but what I have heard has been positive. So I'm going to go ahead and make the first challenge. It might take you all the way until next July to get it done.

The challenge is to memorize "The Family: A Proclamation to the World." I've done it before but no longer have it memorized.... so yes, I'll be completing the challenge as well.

Part of the reason for this challenge is because so many of the talks at conference (both General and Stake) seemed to be focused on the family and protecting the family. The proclamation is a good recipe on how to protect your family, so it seems a good thing to memorize.

I'm not sure what the prize will be yet so I can't tell you what it is. I'll try to make it something good.... though isn't memorizing this whole thing a prize in itself? Anyway, everyone is invited to participate, even Brooke, Bryan, and any of the little ones that want to try it.

Don't have a copy of it? Well, go to lds.org and there is a link on the left-hand side bar.

Reunion Challenges

Hey Everyone,

I was doing all sorts of thinking this morning and came up with an idea for the reunion next summer. It's up to all of you if you want to be in support of the idea or not.... and if you aren't at the reunion you can still participate.

My idea is to have each person (or family or just whoever wants to do it) come up with a challenge that you want to give everyone to accomplish before the reunion. For instance, you could challenge everyone to read the Book of Mormon, or memorize the Articles of Faith, or run 100 miles, or have a family name ready to do endowments for, or something else. Anyway, the person that "hosts" the challenge would then be in charge of presenting all of those that completed the challenge with some sort of prize. It could be something really inexpensive or something that doesn't cost you anything for that matter. It's up to the challenger to come up with the challenge and the prize. I think it would be good to do some that even the kids can participate in. Or we could modify some or just make some just for the kids. And if the challenger doesn't want to let us know what the prize is ahead of time (because they haven't decided or because they just like the idea of keeping it secret) then you don't have to tell.

So.... any thoughts on this idea?

-Tawnia

we have liftoff!

A full year after we bought the webcam ... the Caudles are now taking appointments for Skype conversations.

We did a test-run with Tawnia tonight and everything went smoothly. Well, with the actual computer systems anyway. Be forewarned that Summer will completely monopolize everything. We're going to have to take turns with the camera and mike, so everyone else (anyone) here has a chance to say anything at all. That, and it was really obnoxious to try to hold Jenna at the computer with Summer and Marnie climbing all over me.

Reunion

Not to ruin things but at this time, Jeremy and I will not be going to Nauvoo this summer. We do not have enough money to do it. Yes, Jeremy may have gotten a better job (training hasn't started yet) but it is a temp to hire so he probably wouldn't get vacation time until later. Also, Jeremy and I will be getting sealed on our first anniversary, July, 9 2011. I'd actually like to see all of you there.
So as of right now, the only way we would be going to Nauvoo is if someone else paid our way, and if Jeremy got time off work.