Here are some time periods that might help you list in the next 10 days before the meeting some of the stories you can think of. Just list a title of the story so it is enough for you and
us to recognize. Or if you need to make
it a short paragraph that tells us what it is about so it can be identified
when we actually go through the Experience Book looking for it. Feel free to add more numbers in any time period. Put your name in parenthesis so we know who made the entry. Unless you want to be anonymous, then we'll have a fun time guessing. :) Elaine Drive 1970-1976 1. Riding in the wagon down elaine drive. Crashed and Jenny broke nose 2. Motorcycle rides on Nellie(green) and (black) ? 3. Mowing the lawn . Having to carry the lawn mower up the stairs and mow straight up. 4. bought the Elaine house drive for around 22,000 dollars. It was the highest house on the mountain. 5. Dad put the yard in with the railroad ties. Lots of work. 6. Clearing out the sprinkler heads. 7. Troy(7) stands up and bears his Testimony in oct 1975 about his new calling. Says " My dad was called to be... well its one of those guys who works with Jesus". 8. Terrell climbs all over. Spills cheerios and other many messes. 9. Terrell falls out of high chair when staying the grandma. Cracks head open . got Stitchs. 10. Terrell acting out in Sunday school. The sunder school president comes down and sits by Terrell to calm him down. Terrell looks over and says "My dad can beat you up". He was a pretty big guy. 11. Moms wig story with priest getting it caught in his coat. 12. Dad was called as a missionary rep in June 1972. 13. Jacksons got in trouble for shoot a skunk in our backyard. 14. Travis poos in the model toilet at the store Uruguay Paraguay 1976-1977 1. In July 1976 called to serve as president of the seventy. 1.4 a few days before we left . Elder McConkie talked to President Kimball about Dad going down as a Seventy and then asked Dad if he minded if he was ordained as a High Priest. President Kimball ordained him to the High Priest quorum. 1.7 Oscar McConkie had a very prized bust of president Kennedy. Jenny knocks the bust off the small coffee table and breaks it. 2. In Washington, Dad went back to visit ambassador to Uruguay and Paraguay. 3. Troy littered on Gerald Fords office. 4. Jay Jensen was the president in Cali. We visited there on the way to Rio and Sao Paolo and t hen on the Montevideo. 5. We stayed in Sao Paulo for a few days and was oriented by Elder Faust. 6. We then flew to Puerto Alegre and then on to Montevideo. 7. Flew on Varig. Was welcomed by many members(200+) in white shirts and banners. 8. Dad sticks his thumb out of the car. signalling to the missionaries that we are really going to move it. 9. Terrell chases the cars with Carlito. 10. Moms problems with the 2 maids. Fransica and Blanca. 11. Dixie our Dog was lost all day. We prayed. Later ran over. 12. Dixie pumps get bitten up by another dog. later got worms. 13. Playing soccer with the kids around there. Learned spanish from them. 14. Terrell falls off roof. breaks arm and nose. Elder Faust gives blessing on the trunk of the car. Dad had to leave to meet with the president of Uruguay. Mom goes to the hospital can't yet speak spanish. 15. Holly is born. 16. Mom chasing robbers with a knife. 17. Go to the beach. scerro. Dead fish all over the beach. 18. Took the whole family from Montevideo to Assioncion. then flew to san pedro san jaun caballero. Flew in dc-3. Travis threw up. Tried guarana for the first time. 19 . Kids all sang songs for each mission meeting. 20. Elder McConkie came down to organize 4 stakes. 21. Terrell calls him Elder Donkey. 22. Neighbors sing us happy birthday in thick accent. 23. Climbing on Roof. 24 issue with bus driver or teacher smoking. Terrell skips part of kindergarten. 25. General authorities who visited: Faust, McConkie, Hunter. Faust went to Paraguay with Dad. 26. Pratts 27. Mom breaks wooden spoons on Terrell and Travis, they laugh 28. Learning spanish from the maids, Frol boys taught Troy spanish on the soccer field Ecuador 1977-1979 1. Birth of your favorite child! 2. Moved to Ecuador. Dad becomes Area supervisor of Andes area. 3. Jared's birth. 4. Rats. 5. Street was Gregorio Bobailla. 6. Moved to house that Elder Tuttle left. They left 40 rabbits. We gave them away to inidians. 6.4 Troy tires to rope cows in the field 6.5 rock fights with local kids. 6.7. burned tires. people burning in effigy. Block roads. made cars pay to cross. 6.8 kids got tear gassed at cotopoxi school becasue of riots around there. 6.9 missionaries and kids held up at gun point by robbers. 7. Turkey story. Travis tackling kids helping chop head off. 8. Middletons monkeys. Eb Davis, Ethingtons (Ashlee's family) 9. Nobody would buy or sell. We wanted to move away from rats. 10 . We were able to find the next house in a few days. was 5 levels. 11. Chased by farmer with machete. 12. Climbing metal rod iron fence 13. Laddie the dog stollen 14. Garbage can stolen 15. Terrell gets sun stroke in quaqil 16. Car is stolen by a policeman killer in quaqil 17. Coming back from Esmeralda going through Santo Domingo. Troy climbed up the tree to get a banana and got stung by bees on the neck. 18. Trips to Otovalo, sucking on sugar cane. Everyone dressed in white. 19. Kids kicked out of school because they were Mormons 20. Dad goes back to Otovalo to make the first non Spanish speaking stake (native Otovalo speaking) 21. Visiting authorities: Mark E. Petersen (antonio, tell us a story...) also went to Colombia with E. Petersen, Benson (Sister Benson's whistle), Haight (Terrell called her a witch), Robert Hales, Packer, Hinckley (went to Colombia and Venezuela) 22. Terrell and Travis steal books in the their pants. 23. Flor looses the beaters, gets baptized 24. Secretary Precila gets baptized 25. Dad's lost scriptures 26. Christmas dolls and presents to a village. 27. Lucracia was the maid before Flor. She would sigh heavy while she worked. 28. Visited the equator. 29. Troy goes with Dad to Venezuela and to Monte Vedeo, Uruguay 30. Holly not allowed on the floor much because of rats, and learns to walk late. Has to wear a brace at night so her feet would grow straight (didn't work). 31. Shirts watch us kids while Mom and Dad go to the states. They claim it was Mom who chased down a rat in the bedroom while Dad jumped onto the bed shouting instructions. Peru 1979-1981 1. Brethren- E Haight, MEP, ETB, Hinckley 2. Dixie peeing on E Packer's shoes 3. Terrell & Travis walk to the beach 4. El Rancho and Goofy Golf 5. Piano teacher ms buttler.very sturn. purple candies. 6. watched superman and starwars . sat on front row. only people in the theatre who could understand, 7. visiting authorities: Packer (dog peed on his shoes), Monson, 8. Lost the bikes (showed the neighbor boys and then the next day they were gone) 9. Holly drowning 3 times (Mom once, Jenny twice) 10. Running across the roof. 11. Avocado tree in the back 12. Boxing gloves with Terrell and Troy. Troy cleaned up on Terrell 13. First microwave, first VCR (watched Roots @ the Nixons house) 14. Dad gets DVT (from falling by the pool) 15. Mati is the maid. Went to the beach, she caught crabs and cooked them up. Crabs would keep trying to jump out of the boiling water. Stayed in a junkie hut with raised posts to keep the water out. 16. Moved to Avenida de las Flores 17. Family home evening at night. Heard someone running on the roof. Dad chases him off the roof with a broom in his bathrobe. 18. Kids trip to Huanchio. Go up a train ride 16000 ft. Longest train ride in the world. Before you arived there was a car with food. Terrell eats chicken hearts. The Holtz took us. 19. Ruins with the skulls and torture chambers. The inquisition below Lima. Hip bones, arm bones. Catholic church basement. Stretching machines. Actual bodies preserved where hair and finger nails were still growing. 20. Ruins by Lima with baptismal font. 21. Travis and Terrell walk to the beach 6-7 miles. 22. Litsters and Nixons 23. Holly walks on the window sill of the 10th floor apartment 24. Chimbote, city north. Dad was sick and could only drink mango juice. Terrell was with him. 25. Mrs. Butler the piano teacher. 26. Hamsters. Lift the stone lid and watch the sewer go by. 27. With the packers, the car alarm goes off. Mom has to cut the cord to turn it off. The kids hid the keys. 28. Camping in the blue truck, Dad and Troy. Troy gets an ember in the eye and has to go to the hospital. 29. Going from Uruguay to Quito a storm directed them to Mendoza, Argentina. Spend the night in a hotel with no light. Mom is nursing Holly, no light to change diapers. 30. Troy worked at the supermarket to wash and watch cars. 31. When there was a rice or sugar shortage Mom would send each kid through the line separately to get enough food. 32. Holly visited the maids in the back house, learned a few Spanish words from them, slept on the stair during scripture reading, and copied Dad's important work by scribbling on a yellow pad.
Elaine Drive 1981-1982 1. Kids went to phonics lessons 2. First Attari, Pong, Tanks. Found the present under the sink. kids thought Christmas was over. 3. Travis goes to Chile 4. Jenny and Holly take ballet and tap dance lessons for a short time; Jenny takes 4-H. 5. Mom does aerobics at the church while kids play. 6. Holly is cool for a day when she receives Play Dough Barber Shop for her birthday and all the older kids want to play with it. 7. Good garden produce in this house. 8. Marilyn Olsen got Mom into creating photo albums to look nice. 9. Good sledding down Elaine Drive during the winter. 10. Special girl across the street who sang, "....we're gonna win the game!" 11. Dad does some finishing of the basement? Oakridge Lane 1982-1985 1. Jason gets infection in his eye (celulitis) while in San Diego. Loses part of his sight. 2. Had to rid the garden of snails. 3. Grandparents' visits? 4. Deseret Gym. The hot tub, the cold tub, breath-holding contests, seeing "too much" in the locker rooms. The gymnastics room with trampolines and beams. Seeing General Authorities? , 5. 0 Holly and Jared get tonsils removed. 6. The Covey's are good friends with the kids. 7. Shelly born 8. Money-making schemes Mexico1985-1987 1. Ping pong- E Perry, cold cereal w/ E Eyring (Travis) 2. Cancun with Johnsons, jelly fish, high fevers, excellent snorkeling 3. Acapulco, sugar cane, passcode: "cordon bleu" 4. Xochimilco, Las Estacas scuba diving, swinging from the trees 5. Dad's healing, "I am a healthy man" 6. Faking sick with the Shirts, "Two little boys" and "Johnny Verbeck", getting hypnotized 7. Playing chess with Dad, chess with brother Rencher 8. Guinea pigs, rabbits, Indrid, ducks, birds 9. Reading The Storm Testament series 10. Getting robbed 11. My favorite statue Jared 12. Jared
baptized in Whetten's pool, green, cold. Friendship with the Whetten's. Fried egg on top of enchiladas, from the "colonies," Sister Whetten taught Merrie Misses how to crochet, 13. Earthquake. going to airport getting the shirts aftershock. yeld gas leak. Troy yelling at us to get near the walls for safety on our way to bus stop. 14. Faking dad out by rocking car. EARTHQUAKE. 15. Boys helped with church service project. looking for bodies and survivors. 16. Earth quake in El Salvador one year later. 17. Trip to Cuarnavca, where Mom bought treasures 18 las estacas, seeing poop in the swimming pool. 19 Acacpulo with the grobergs visiting. 20. Tuxpan, ate coconut and sugar cane. Holly (guilty party) allowed Jared to be accused of leaving his milk after dinner, and watched him be forced to drink it. 21. TAsco--Connie Bean bought Jenny and Holly silver bracelets 22 grotto caves cavernas de caxaquamilpa 23. terrell getting sick and running out side the car 24. GIGANTE-tortilla maker 25. scaterama play place--Las Nubes 26 Robbed before the metal plates put on the moving steel garage wall. Holly's head got stuck in the steel garage wall. 27. Dog named indra. dog hated Dad, but responded well to Holly's "dog whispering" 28. travis and terrell would let him bite and chase him. 29. Fed him full chicken and liver each day. 30. walked in the poor section bought m-80s . got on roof and shot them at cars in front of house. 31. First started walking. how are you progressing 32. rats down by shirts. 33. terrell and jenny trip with dad. chicken lips 34. tlanlepantla 35. hiked up popo. travis and eric got left behind. stayed all night there. finally made it home by 7 am and went to church. 36. pets. bunnies, ducks, Guinea pigs, rabbits, parakeets. mom rabbit died. jenny fed babies. 38 almost bought armadillos 39. Jenny was excited and told the girls that there would be tan boys. 40 first mexico Macdonald. line for miles. 41. bought honey at a gas station. bottles broke. car seat was always sticky. 13. New Attari 2600, pirated games from someone at the church. Smuggled 10 suit cases into Mexico to get it across the border. 42 police badge in mexico. 43. the pastor ray Williamson. 44. Danny Glaser. tried to get him to take discussions. 45. brother shirts hipmotizing kids. tellings stories and songs. 46. migration of the monarch butterflies. 47. riding horses by cook mountain. 48. Lomas branch church. dan johnson was bishop. Walser was next. Historical building, Primary upstairs. 49. jason drowned jenny and Holly's ducks. 50. visits in mexco visits. elder perry 51. Trinidad. chirstmas given. 52. "Halitosis" couple who watched us while Mom and Dad went to Gen. Conference. She also taught us knitting and French Braided our hair very harshly! 53. Brother R, who played us chess and liked our family. 54. Tecamachalco Club, Holly being told to go to the "proper" locker room for boys. 55. Riding the "topes" at the back of the school bus. The pecking order of kids on the bus. 56. The dentist who would put an enormous clamp with a balloon into your mouth while filling a cavity. 57. Street-side vendors and entertainers. Young boys jumping on the hood of car to wash glass and earn money. Men "guarding" your car in grocery store parking lot. Boys giving that employment a try. Oakridge Lane 1987-1991 1. Mischief: Bryson's fish, car windshield, Tomlinson's breaking/entering, fire in the gully, bbguns up the canyon 2. Trip to NY, Ohio, DC. I got my testimony. Jason's baptism 3. Attari games 4. Holly's tree "accident" 5. Good times at "the creek." 6. Summer of Terrell, Dan, and Tom. TV, late nights, buying shrimp 7. Terrell goes to BYU, mission, Jenny dating
Ecuador1991-1992
Oakridge Lane1992-1996
Germany1996-1999
Oakridge Lane 1999-2001
Atlanta, Georgia 2001-2004
Oakridge Lane 2004-2007
Lehi, Utah 2007-2011
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