Elder Boyd K. Packer

We learned about the President of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles today from Dallin who did a great job on his devotional. Boyd Kenneth Packer was born in Brigham City, Utah in 1924. He was the 10th child born to his parents and the fifth son. He was a pilot during World War II. He married Donna Smith in 1947. He worked for the church in the seminary department training and teaching seminary teachers.

Star of the Week-McKay

McKay has been dilligently reading his scriptures everyday and loves what he is learning...therefore he is a ROCK STAR this week! We are grateful for your example! Keep up the good work!
FAVORITES:
Sport- Football
Candy- Butterfinger
Color- Green
Movie- Blades of Glory
Holiday- Christmas
Hymn- Called to Serve
Gen Auth- Gordon B. Hinckley

WISHES & DREAMS
Hear thoughts
3 more wishes
Have a lot of money
Go to Venice, Italy

HOBBIES & PETS
Reading
Use the computer
Talk to Deidre
4 dogs-Jane, Coco, Lexi and Daisy
Learning to play the piano

UNIQUE BECAUSE:
He’s a singer, actor and is AWESOME!

Elder Dallin H. Oaks

Chantel gave an awesome devotional today about Elder Oaks. He was born in 1932 in Provo, Utah. He graduated from BYU in 1954 and from the University of Chicago law school in 1957. He was president of BYU-Provo from 1971-1980. He served as a justice on Utah's Supreme Court from 1980-84 at which time he became an apostle. He presided over the church in the Philippines for 2 years. He and his late wife June Dixon Oaks have 6 children and 28 grandchildren. He married Kristen McMain in 2000.

Devotional Assignements for Sept 29th-Oct 3rd

One more week before Conference! It's exciting to learn about our Apostles! See below for your assignment.... Monday: Chantel.............Elder Dallin H. Oaks
Tuesday: Dallin................Elder Boyd K. Packer
Wednesday: Rachel.........Elder Robert D. Hales
Thursday: Elizabeth........Elder Richard G. Scott
Friday: Russell.................Elder Russell M. Nelson

Sept 28th-Oct 4th Scripture Block

We're almost done with Matthew! This week's reading is Matt Chapters 24-26

How Sweet it is!

Our Scripture Mastery was extra sweet today as the Seniors and Juniors (at one table) and the Soph and Freshman (at another table) used candy and their scriptures to put together a candy-gram that was uplifting as well as sweet!! PS...We also got to hear Stuart play his guitar for us today after breakfast! He's so talented! Juniors and Seniors...Russell, Matt, Tristain, Rachel, Nicole, Natalie & Elizabeth

Soph & Freshman Jennifer, Chantel, Rhiannon, Stuart, McKay, Dallin, Kendra, Chloe and Deidre

All the kids were very creative! It was fun to hear what they came up with. Check it out below!

Surprise Sister Rock!!

I am SOOOOO lucky to have the best seminary class! Today for our monthly birthday breakfast they surprised me with a birthday cake (thanks Rhiannon) and a card that they had all signed (sneakily in class!!) I LOVED it!! Brother Northrup was there to help cook the pancakes-thank you!...and he even did all the dishes! Wow!!!

Elder Holland

Chloe gave our great devotional today on Elder Holland. He grew up in St. George, Utah. He served a mission to England. He married his wife Patricia in the St. George temple. He got his bachelor and masters degree from BYU in English and a masters from Yale University. He was the president of BYU-Provo and helped in the building of the BYU Jerusalem center. He was called to be an apostle in 1994.

Elder Christofferson

We learned about the newest apostle Elder D. Todd Christofferson from McKay this morning. Awesome job McKay! Elder Christofferson was called to be an apostle when Elder Uchtdorf was called to the 1st presidency. He was born in 1945 in Utah. He graduated from BYU and spent his career as a lawyer. He was in charge of creating the genealogy data base in 2001 for African/Americans.

Name Game

Matt, never one to boast, was proud to tell us that his name means "Gift of God". Rachel may have had second thoughts about telling the "macho row" what her name means. (Sorry Rachel...but you walked into that one-haha!)

The 8 B's

This week we focused on Christ's teachings when he gave the Sermon on the Mount. We discussed the Beatitudes and wrote goals to work on developing these characteristics. The 8 B's are: Blessed are the poor in spirit; Blessed are they that mourn; Blessed are the meek; Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; Blessed are the merciful; Blessed are the pure in heart; Blessed are the peacemakers; Blessed are they which are persecuted.
We also learned how Christ taught us to pray and to serve God-not Mammon.

Elder L. Tom Perry

Thanks Jennifer for your devotional about Elder Perry today! We learned that he graduated from Utah State University. He likes to walk. His first wife passed away and then he remarried. He went on a mission to the Northern States and served 2 years with the Marines.

Aloha Stuart

The Laurels had a great time at mutual last night learning how to Hula Dance. Before class today, we tried to coax them into a short demo, but they weren't budging. Then Stuart volunteered and showed them how it was done!! Way to hula Stuart! :)

Elder Bednar

Nicole gave a great devotional today about Elder David A. Bednar. We learned that he was the quarterback of his high school. He went on a mission to Germany with the support of his non-member dad. When he got home from his mission, he was able to baptize his dad. Before becoming an apostle, he was the president of BYU-Idaho.

Rock Star of the Week-Russell

Russell is our star this week because he's been an early bird to seminary! He's also been a great game show host during our SM games.

FAVORITES:
Sport- Football & Basketball
Food- Fried chicken & Biscuits
Color- Black
Holiday- Christmas
Gen Auth- Thomas S. Monson

WISHES & DREAMS
Money
World Peace
More Wishes

HOBBIES & PETS
Go to Gym
Sleep
Dog-Sunny

Devotional Assignments for Sept 22-26th

We're COUNTING DOWN TO CONFERENCE this week with our daily devotionals focusing on the 12 apostles.Please come prepared to share what you've learned about your assigned apostle. This week's assignments are as follows:
Monday: Jordan/ Elder Cook
Tuesday: Nicole/ Elder Bednar
Wednesday: Jennifer/ Elder Perry
Thursday: McKay/ Elder Christofferson
Friday: Chloe/ Elder Holland

Scripture Block for Sept 21-27

This weeks Reading is Matthew Chapters 17-23

I'm THIRSTY!!

Kaity & Dallin got REALLY thirsty today after their cracker eating contest! We then read the story in John chapter 4 of Jesus asking the Samaritan woman for water at the well. We discussed how good it feels to have our thirst quenched and that Jesus offers living water...eternal life... so that we will never thirst.

The Wasp

Today we worked on Scripture Mastery and played this game called "Bloody Knuckles"...(sounds gory I know)...because supposedly after your team gets the scripture looked up and you run to the chalkboard to write down the reference, you're writing so fast you hit your knuckles on the chalkboard. However, I'm thinking of renaming the game to "The Wasp" because about halfway through the game, a certain player (blonde, cute, speedy) started "buzzing" around the chalkboard and erasing the opponents writing and being a bit "pesty!" The Wasp also snuck off with a piece of chalk, which Mckay luckily recovered! Anyway...as most of our games do, it got a little wild towards the end:) I think our posing Greek Gods even looked up to see what all the ruckus was about-(haha- I'm sure you know who they were!)

Rock Star of the Week-Jennifer

Our Rock Star of the week is Jennifer. Jennifer is one of our new Freshman. She is our star this week because she contributes regularly to our class discussion and is sweet and kind to everyone.


FAVORITES:
Sport- Swimming
Candy- Chocolate Bars
Color- Green
Movie- Pirates 1, 2 & 3
Holiday- Christmas
Gen Auth- Thomas S. Monson

WISHES & DREAMS
Would love to travel to
London & France
(anywhere out of the states)

HOBBIES & PETS
Play with Family & Friends
1 Dog-Candy
Plays piano & flute

UNIQUE FACT
Almost died when she was 5 years old. Jennifer shared with us today that she had an e-coli infection when she was young and was very sick.

Devotional Assignments 15th-19th

This week's devotionals are as follows:
Monday-Stuart
Tues- Chantel
Wed- Rhiannon
Thurs- Matt
Fri- Kendra

Scripture Block for Sept 14th-20th

Reading block for this week is Matthew Chapters 11-16. KEEP Reading Daily!! Scripture Mastery for the week is Matthew 16:15-19......Can you have it memorized by Friday?

School Spirit

I had a great time Friday night attending CHS opening football game against Centennial HS. It was fun to see so many of the kids from seminary attending the game! GO PUMA'S!!! CHS Choir opening the game with the National Anthem (Jordan is on back row 2nd from right...Jordan also plays in the band)
#47 Matt was the star of the game! We all got a scare when he was down on the field for a bit during the game...but luckily he was ok!
CHS band performed the half time show...it was great!

Visitors from an Ancient Land

Today our class was so surprised when some visitors from the old world came by to visit us. We met Zacharias, Elizabeth, Simeon and Anna. They told us all about themselves and we were able to learn more about John the Baptist and Jesus Christ because of them. We were also amazed at the resemblance they had to some of our class members...namely, Russell, Rachel, McKay and Tristain! WOW! They could have been related! We also learned about "Dr." Luke and his testimony of the Savior. We took turns reading letters from children to God and talked about how God always hears and answers our prayers. We said goodbye to our visitors and wished them well on the journey back home.
Zacharias and Elizabeth....parents of John the Baptist
Simeon and Anna....witnesses of the baby Jesus at the temple

Visit from "Flat Emma"

We took a quick stretching break to pose with our special visitor from Colorado "Flat Emma" (for those of you familiar with the "Flat Stanley" book series, you'll understand). Flat Emma (seated between Russell and Matt) had a great time in seminary today and will be heading back to Colorado tomorrow! Thanks for letting her come visit:)

More SM Craziness

Today we focused heavily on Scripture Mastery. Everyone received a ring of all 25 SM scriptures and were able to pass off at least 1 scripture today and many passed off multiple ones! We headed into the gym for a game that required more brain work....McKay started reading the scripture; chair 1 had to write down the reference; chair 2 had to write down key words; chair 3 had to look up the scripture and pass it off to the judges (Matt or Russell); and lastly chair 4 had to make a basket from the paper chair 1 and 2 passed to them. As usual...the competition runs high, but everyone is getting their scriptures down and it was a lot of FUN!!!

Rock Star of the Week-Stuart

Our Rock Star of the Week is STUART! He moved into our ward over the summer and we all think he's super COOL- (which, according to Stuart, is his "Unique Quality"). Stuart has a great attitude and strong testimony!

FAVORITES:
Sport- Football
Candy- Snickers
Color- Blue
Holiday- Thanksgiving
Hymn- I’m Trying to be like Jesus
Scripture- 3Nephi 11:15

WISHES
No Gay marriage
Peace in the U.S.
Everyone to Love each other

HOBBIES & FREE TIME
Play music
Plays guitar

Reading block for Sept 7-13th

Hope everyone's reading went well last week. This week's reading block is Matthew chapters 6-10.

No Seminary Mon the 8th

Everyone was so sad about no seminary on Monday....I'm sooo sorry! But we'll see you Tues!

Daily Devotionals

Our devotionals were great this week thanks to Rachel, Russell, Deidre and Chloe! Next weeks devotionals are as follows: Tuesday-Dallin; Wednesday-Elizabeth; Thursday-Kaity; Friday-Natalie. Come prepared with an opening song, prayer assignments and a scripture to share. :)

The Early Bird Catches the Treat!

All you Early Birds know that every once in a while we will have a visit from our "Before the Bell" basket. But it goes out of sight as soon as the 6:00am bell rings! So come early; you might be surprised!

Surviving

So far this week we've been learning about the birth of Jesus Christ and how he prepared himself for his mission. We discussed the different authors of the gospels and how they wrote some similar and some different accounts about His life. Tues everyone had to match questions about the events of Christ's birth with the person in class who had the answer taped to their back. Wed we talked about Christ's baptism and also the Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes. Today each table shared a scripture account of how fasting can give us extra spiritual strength. Nicole and Russell gave great insight on how fasting makes us disciplined and is also a sacrifice. On top of all that we are also working on our Scripture Mastery. Brother Northrup received a round of applause for reciting his 1st SM from Matthew 5 today! Way to go Brother Northrup!! Afterwards our class ended up being stranded on 2 deserted islands! But knowing their scripture mastery helped them to SURVIVE!!!! Our Fantasy Island group....Dallin, Rachel, Jennifer, Russell, Stuart, McKay and Kendra
The Gilligan's Island group.....Nicole, Natalie, Chantel, Rhiannon, Tristain, Deidre, Kaity and Matt. (I wonder who is Gilligan??-hahaha!!)