Mark Homecoming and Party Day #4
Today, Mark gave his homecoming talk at church, which was wonderful. As part of the program, all the kids and grand-kids got up on the stand and sang Called to Serve in Spanish! 😐 It was crazy! What also was very interesting is that the speaker that spoke with Mark had a family visiting him from Denmark (that he baptized on his mission). It turns out that they were in the Smiley’s ward in Copenhagen and Angela met them when she was over there!!! SMALL WORLD! They had a reunion of sorts and then the family came over to visit tonight.
After the meetings were over, we all went over to Grandma’s and Grandpa’s house and had a huge dinner/welcome-home reception for Mark. The funny thing was that at this reception, it was almost like a Weber High School reunion! One of Mark’s companions, Elder Hales, was there with his family. Elder Hales’ dad is a year or two older than me and we were at Weber High together! Again, SMALL WORLD! In addition, Elder Hales’ mom, is also a Weber High grad and is a year younger than me. Her brother (Eric), and his brother (Will) were friends of mine, and I played soccer for years with “Uncle Will” Hales. To top that off, Angela’s cousin, Scott Burns was there, and he graduated from Weber High as well and is the same age as Elder Hales’ dad! 🙂 It was pretty funny. It was nice to catch up with all of them and talk about the good-old-days!
