The Royalty Pageant is a three day competition. Here are the 2015 contestants just after a dinner at the Joseph Smith Memorial building and before the evening program begins at the Conference Center Little Theater.
Our outgoing 2014 Royalty were so amazing. They worked as a cohesive team attending 80 plus events during their year. It's always so hard to say good-bye.
This year I was a stage hand and enjoyed getting to know many of the contestants back stage. The most touching moment was to gather in a circle before the curtain went up, arms around each other and heads bowed to say a prayer asking that everyone would do their best and have a good experience. Pioneer ancestors were proud! Pictured are Denise Mathews the amazing accompanist and her nice page turner.
Our first event was to speak at a Daughters of Utah Pioneers Company Seminar in St. George. Our 1st Attendant, Christina, was in Europe so we took the Pageant's Miss Congeniality, Kassi Faulkner. Queen Ethel and Princess Pam attended the meeting and the luncheon. I loved having them there!
One of the first big thing to accomplish with a new group is to shop for three outfits: formal gowns, western wear and business wear. Then their formal portraits need to be taken to meet media deadlines. Their western wear photo shoot took place at the Brigham Young farmhouse at This is The Place.
Pioneer Princesses!
Here is a Queen mother in the canine world. Ruby, a Golden Doodle had 11 puppies with 9 living. Can you imagine this crowd of large puppies latching on, or trying to?
I would have been sorely tempted to take one home, but they sold for $1200 each and they were all spoken for within hours!
Dear family, April 13, 2015
This week was a fun one. We continue to do a lot of service, especially since it's warming up...slowly. :) On Saturday we helped a less active cut tile for his bathroom, which was cool. We didn't have a wet saw, so we just made do. There were a lot of sparks and it was really loud, but it got the job done. We continue to work at the food pantry twice a week, and we are really forming a good relationship with the lady who runs it. She has invited us to her home for dinner, and she says she isn't in the gospel, but she loves us and knows what we do as missionaries is important. She always says she wishes more people would talk to us and get to know us. We're hoping to invite her to church sometime. She knows a few ward members, so we think it will be good for her. We also do service at Bethany Meadows, a senior living center here in Brandon. The last couple weeks we have been working on bringing patio furniture up from their basement to the residents. They all have small porches outside their rooms.
Our only investigator Mike has been slowly progressing. He is reading the Book of Mormon, and the last lesson we had with him, he said the closing prayer. We invited him to church, but he said he couldn't make it this week, but he wants to come next Sunday. We're excited to see him there. We also got a new ward mission leader, Brother Frolich. He is single, about 50, and he's pretty cool. We met with him on Saturday to get us all on the same page.
Yesterday we were at the hospital visiting Adam, who got his legs crushed in a windmill he was welding, and we were talking about the bones he broke, and looked at the x rays, and my companion fainted! It looked like he just fell asleep, he slumped forward, and luckily Elder Nixon caught him and got him to the floor. So that was pretty exciting. It was intense to watch, but he's doing alright now. He says whenever he hears about bones breaking, his body shuts down. Zone Conference is next Monday, so I will email on Tuesday. Then the mission splits the next Tuesday. I'm excited to see the changes in the areas I will serve, and I'm hoping to see a tornado in real life. There are a lot in Nebraska and Kansas. Not much else cool has happened in the weather. It gets super cold in the winter, and it rains once in a while. It's kinda boring seeing flat land everywhere. I miss the mountains. That's it for this week, hope you have a great week!
Elder Ehlert
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