Titan Missionaries from Olympus Class of 2012 Opening the Mission Call

They played this video at the end of the adult session of our stake conference last night. And since missionaries hold a special place in our hearts;) we thought we'd share it with y'all! So neat. Keep a tissue close. . .

Brittan's Homecoming!!!

 

We had the blessing of being able to go home for Brittan's homecoming last week. Wow-- he's grown so much, what a special experience it was for him to serve. He had such a life changing experience and is on this amazing spiritual high, that I must admit is highly contageous. :) We flew in for the weekend and got to be there for his Homecoming at church, and Tiff, Tara, and I even got to perform a musical number together for it. It's so fun playing together again! They are so extremely talented, it's such a treat to be able to get to play with them whenever I come home. Brittan gave an emotional report of his mission and of those that he was able to meet with, learn from, and serve. He told us all that he loves us and was so excited to be able to come home and see us, and remembered how hard it was to leave Utah and his family to go to Richmond, but that it was even harder to leave Virginia to come back home, he has just such a deep love for those people.

 

While we were home, mom had this great idea to start our own Sevy family reunions. Mom and Dad were in charge of our first one this year, and had an entire day filled with activities for us to do together. We all went to the temple together-- that was amazing. We fed the ducks together, and did crafts with all the little kids, we went and got treats, and my favorite. . . played LET'S MAKE A DEAL!!!  Dad went to town with it and had a mic and game-show music playing throughout. There were all kinds of boxes, and envelopes, and Zonks! We even had a scavenger hunt, and costumes we had to wear- haha it was so much fun;)

 

 

 

 

Poor Shay's body got hashed playing rugby, and then Trav got a black eye from his game-- Dad brought out a box of dress-up's and said we had 30 seconds to pick out our costume and the first one finished got a prize--- everyone looked amazing!;);)

 

 

Mylee was such a great "duck-feeder" they followed her everywhere.

 

 

Ellsie and Kai loved feeding the ducks! They were both kind of shy at first but by the time we were out of bread they were both so sad to leave the ducks;(

 

  We are all spread out so we seldom get to all be together, so it was neat for us to be able to be together again;) Here's Tiffie with baby Kai.

 

 

Ellsie kind of remembers me;) We skype sometimes, but I hadn't seen her for about a year. She has the most adorable personality it was so fun to play with her and lil Kai.

 

 

Shaye and Travis were in an international rugby tournament in Las Vegas, so we got to all go down and watch them play-- It's a rough sport-- but they're tough and played awesome!

 

Ellsie and Kai were both born while Brittan was gone but they got to know him real quick, they both just LOVE their uncle Brittan!

Ellsie is an amazing dancer! Haha and singer-- she's a lil performer, just like her mama;)

 

We had a big luncheon after Brittan's "homecoming." Friends and family came over from the church to meet together. Here's two of my most favorite Aunts-- Aunt Carol, and Aunt Jill.

 

 

Sean and Melissa drove down from the Salt Lake area to see Brittan and the rest of the clan. Here's Sean with Uncle Kent.

 

 

 Ken, Fuzz's dad, was nice enough to come out to the homecoming too. It was fun to be able to see him and spend time with him too!

 

 

 

 

 

Here's Tiff with a few of our cousins;)

 

 

Me and Ellsie got to hang out for a sec;)

 

Here's Shaye with Kayla, his cute lil girly friend.

 

 

Here's Fuzz with Grandpa Iverson. Such a sweet guy;)

 

 

It was so much fun to be home but eventually we had to leave and come back to Lubbock. . . . . . . . . just in time for Valentines Day;)

 

 

I came home from work to find this surprise from my Valentine;) Flowers, candy and his version of an edible arrangement! What a Sweetheart!!!

 

Hope everyone else had great Valentines!

We Found Him!

So for months now my dad has been telling me that one of my cousins was serving a mission in our area. For months I've been asking almost every missionary that I've met if he knows Elder Frandsen, who's dad is my dad's cousin. I have heard several say that they've met him but that he wasn't in Lubbock, just in some of the surrounding areas. A couple Sunday's ago, Fuzz came up to me at the end of church and pointed at these couple of missionaries and said, "Look Chan, there's Elder Frandsen!" I looked and was confused at first, I knew a ton of our missionaries but this one didn't look familiar, he seemed to sense my confusion, so he added, "YOUR COUSIN! The one you've been asking everyone about--- that you've been looking for!!" I got so excited!!! Elder Frandsen gave us the look like, "Who are you guys and what's going on?" So I told him how I was a Sevy and my Dad is his dad's cousin, and that I've been looking for him for months! We had him and his companion over last night for dinner-- it was so fun talking about our relatives, and reunions that we went to but how silly it was that we can't remember each other! He knew all about my family, their jewelry business, my grandpa's passing, and my family's music. He remembers hearing us perform at our family reunion years ago-- it was crazy!! So we fed them dinner and then got a quick pic taken with him. He is a GREAT missionary! Yesterday he got up and spoke in church, and bore the most beautiful testimony-- he, has such a great attitude and tremendous love for His Savior, and this Gospel. We were so glad to have finally found and met him!

Here's a neat video from the mormon channel, there's a link for it on lds.org. This talk is from President Uchtdorf--- one of my favorite talks from one of my most favorite people!!!

http://www.mormonchannel.org/mormon-messages-for-youth?v=910947676001