Tanner's Homecoming

Tanner spoke in our ward on February 11th.  He chose is topic--he spoke to those who were preparing to serve a mission and how the Lord qualifies those He calls who have a desire to serve.  It was such a great talk!  He spoke for 35 minutes!  The chapel was filled and even back into the gym, it was like the Saturday evening of Stake Conference.  He had quite a few mission friends come--they stayed at our house the night before.  A few parents of missionaries serving in his mission also came, including Elder Rokovitz's parents.  It was such a great day!  Denise was sick with a nasty bug (fever, aches, cough, etc) for three days prior so preparing the lunch was very stressful!!  We were so blessed to have friends who came to our rescue and helped us pull it off (Nathan and Emily Peterson, Carrie Johnson, JoAnn Mickelson, Emily Merkley, Diane Weese, Kristina Eck, Aleisha Haueter, etc).  We could not have done it without their help.  Greg was getting pretty overwhelmed and stressed on Saturday getting all of the final things taken care of and setting up the cafeteria.  We had the lunch in the River Heights Elementary School Cafeteria.  Luckily, Denise's fever broke and she was able to be there on Sunday!  Sunday morning, Tanner reported to the High Council at 8 am.  He did a great job and I'm sure he will be getting some speaking assignments soon :-)  Here are a few pictures that others took that day (I'm so glad someone took pictures!)

Johnson family who came

Greg's decorating skills