Youth Conference and EFY

Up at 3am, ready to hike at 4 am....  watch the sunrise, testimony meeting, service, breakfast and then build a boat out of cardboard and plastic wrap and race it across a lake.  Fun youth conference for Megan and Melissa.  I went along as a leader and it was really a great day, no matter if it did start at o' dark thirty!

Unfortunantly, EFY was the same time as youth conference for Katie so she had to choose between the two.  So she and Krista Petersen took off to Tacoma and had an awesome week there.  Poor Katie had to drive the van at the last minute because the Acura had a weird rip in the tire.  Ryan and Andrew were playing catch on Saturday and the football landed right at the tire so Ryan couldn't help but notice the rip.  (Tender mercy.... I think so...) He pointed it out to Mike and after some research we decided that we needed to get new tires for the car and that it wouldn't be safe for Katie to drive it such long distance.  She was disappointed because how fun would it have been to take a road trip in a fancy sports car....  But they did have a lot of fun.

The EFY fun continued when later on in the summer some of the boys they met came to Spokane and got stranded with a dead car battery.  So they posted on facebook their troubles of being stranded in a little town called Liberty Lake and Katie came to the rescue.  They ate Sunday dinner with us and spent the night, had breakfast the next morning and spent some time touring around Spokane with Katie and Krista.  Funny how it really is a small world...