RAGNAR June 18th-19th

RAGNAR is a relay race that is run in teams of 12. Each team has 2 vans, 2 drivers, 3 volunteers, and 12 runners. There are about a dozen RAGNAR races across America. This RAGNAR Realy Race is called Wasatch Back. It starts in Logan and goes to Park City after going down to Heber City. It is roughly 188 miles. Dan's Aunt Myndee put together a team to run this year, the team name was: Come What May and Love It! Their team number was 911.

The Subaru decorated for the event

Each team had to have three volunteers so Sarah (Sister-In-Law), Stacey (Alex's girlfriend) and I took a volunteering shift from 2AM to 7AM Friday morning. Our job was to sign in teams from the number 400-600. It was pretty fun and not too hard to do, even though it was pretty cold! There were over 1,000 teams registered for the event. We also got cool volunteer shirts.

Van 1 had a sister-in-law to Myndee, some of Myndee's nieces and a mother and son that Alex knows through rock climbing.

Van 2 in the order of runners was: Melissa (Myndee's friend), Myndee (Dan's Aunt), Mitch (Sarah's Fiance), Justin (Dan's Cousin), Alex (Dan's Cousin), and Dan. Dan's Uncle Randy drove Van 2.

Melissa, Dan, Alex, Myndee, Justin, Mitch

The whole team after the race. Team 911 ran the relay race in 30 hours, 24 minutes, and 6 seconds! They came in 233 out of 658 coed teams!

Primary Lesson

The primary lesson for June 6th was about the 10 Commandments and how the Children of Isreal were disobedient while Moses was gone. Daniel thought up the perfect lesson for this and this is how it played out:
So I always teach the lesson and the students are always asking when Dan is going to teach. This week he came in and said, "Alright I have a great lesson that I am going to teach this week but I have to run home and grab all of my stuff for it. Clint you are going to be the reverence police while I am gone and you are in charge, pretend like you are Aaron Moses' brother" At first the kids were reverent...so I tried to get them a little more hyper by giving them chalk for the chalk board. The best comment given by one of the students while Dan was gone was, "The lesson isn't going to be worth it if it is going to take him this long to get the stuff."
When Dan came back with his backpack the kids were hyper and yelling and such. Dan then totally laid into Clint about why the kids were misbehaving. I thought that Clint was going to cry! (Note: Clint is the most hyper student in our class). Dan then told the kids that since they weren't reverent while he was gone they couldn't do the fun lesson and he would have to go back and grab the binder to teach out of.
When he came back the second time Clint kept saying, "Let's just do the fun lesson instead."
One of the younger girls that was in our class because their teacher was gone said, "He chose Clint to be the reverent police because he wouldn't keep us reverent."
Dan then explained to the kids the story about Moses and the 10 Commandments and how the Isrealites were when he was gone. :)