Service with Heart and Soul : Snow Days!!

Jared Mission January 15th, 2017

So these last 3 weeks have been filled with A LOT of snow!! After Christmas our family went to a beach house for a few days. It was so much fun! We played lots of games, ate a lot of food, went to the Tillamook Cheese Factory and the Blue Heron Cheese store. We went to Cape Mears lighthouse and the Octopus tree. The weather was great! My favorite place was the Blue Heron Store, where I got to sample many delicious dips and sauces. After we got back from the beach house all the boys got to go to Top Golf and that was lots of fun. Then last Saturday we went bowling as a family and that has become on of my favorite things to do, since I started bowling for Special Olympics a couple years ago!

It was sad when my brothers and sisters and their families had to go home, but we created a lot of memories this Christmas Season. Last Wednesday, I got to go do a session at the Temple with Brad and Stephen. I was so glad they got to take me.

The last two Mondays I wasn’t able to go to the Bishop’s Storehouse or DI because of the snow and ice that we have had.

When I went out with the Missionaries this past Thursday we went out to North Plains and talked to a man who served in the Air Force.

I went to my work at the Bike Shop on Friday, but I guess the roads were still bad and so it wasn’t opened. We went sledding instead. Although, I sat in the car the whole time since I don’t like to play in the snow. But it’s been fun having all these snow days because I get to spend time with family!!

I will have my first Special Olympics basketball practice for this season this coming Saturday, if the weather is not too bad. The skills day and my first practice got canceled these last two Saturdays because of the snow and ice. All this week we are suppose to get lots of rain on top of the melting snow we already have.

Stephen is taking all of us boys to see the new Star Wars movie and my birthday is on Wednesday!! I’m glad that I get to have Garrett home for the first birthday in 2 years and that Jessica and Stephen are here to celebrate with me!

Elder Markham

PS...Mom's note: JJ lost his mission badge a few weeks ago...so we are waiting to hear if Salt Lake City will replace it... :-( Mom is becoming very impatient!