President's Day Weekend

 We had a nice President's Day Weekend.  On Friday, Ken taught a local homeschool co-op about birds.  He has a nice presentation prepared, as he has been asked before to do this.  He is really good with kids.

Saturday, there was a big soccer tournament in town.  Many, many people from northern Utah came to play.  We went to watch our nephew, Bryan's kids play.  Ken went in the morning to watch Tanner, and we both went later to watch Claire.  It was so fun.

Rick (Ken's brother), Bryan (our nephew), and Ken.  I had a doctor appointment on Monday, but Ken went back to watch them again on Monday.  Claire's team took the championship in their age group.  
On Sunday evening, Ken's brother, Don did a presentation at the temple visitors center on their ancestors, John Nock and Emma Spendlove Hinton.  I peaked in the door and got a picture.

We didn't get there early enough to get seats inside the presentation room.  We were out in the lobby.  I took some pictures before it was even as full as it got.  Another room was full and the lobbies were standing room only.  That place was packed.  Don did a great job.

We hurried home after the presentation to welcome an elder from our mission- Luke Dance and his beautiful wife, Kate.  We enjoyed dinner with them and then had such a nice visit.

At the end of the visit, Elder Dance paid tribute to Ken.  He said that when he was an elder in Tsuruoka, the Elders were being rowdy, and Ken gathered them (there were four) and told them that they were missionaries and should act like it.  He also asked them for their help.  Japan is a male dominated culture and men typically don't help with kitchen or housework. Ken asked the elders to jump up after our Tuesday night FHE meals and start doing the dishes.  Ken had been doing it since we arrived, but he told the elders that the Japanese men needed to see that priesthood holders should help and honor the women.  The elders responded.  They raced to get in the dishpan after each FHE meal.  Soon, even the crustiest of the Japanese men were helping with dishes.  Elder Dance expressed that Ken had changed his life in many ways.  He said he had not been taught to help in the kitchen before, but he still tries to be first to the dishpan.  It was such a sweet, and may I say, deserved tribute to Ken.