Citizenship in the World

Just found these pictures of our activity the first week of January. Bro. Stewart was illustrating international conflict resolution between Pakistan and India.

February Calendar Email

Hello Parents and Youth, you are receiving this email because you have a son of age in the Stevens Creek Ward Young Men's Organization or a father serving therein. Please contact me if you would like to be removed from this list serve. This email is also attached as a Microsoft Word File.

January Report
In January the young men focused on the Nuclear Science Merit Badge, taught by Brother Doug Lowry. This merit badge involves requirements pertaining to understanding nuclear science technology focused on nuclear energy use. Parents please check with your youth regarding their efforts to help them fulfill the necessary requirements. The youth hosted a campout in January to Huntington Beach, South Carolina, and had an enjoyable time there, some even got in the water. Our youth enjoy campouts, and the young men’s leadership requests that parents make the necessary efforts to allow young men to attend these valuable activities, regardless of the young man’s interest in obtaining scout achievements.

February Events
Wed 2/4
Scout Committee Meeting, 6:30pm, Church
Wed 2/4
YM Activity, Scouts, 7pm, Church
Sat 2/7
Merit Badge University
Wed 2/11
YM/YW Joint Activity, 7pm Church, Deacons in charge
Sun 2/15
Sunday Evening Discussion, 7pm, Deacons in charge
Wed 2/18
YM Activity, Scouts, 7pm, Church
Sat 2/21
Stake Conference Leadership 4pm, Adult Session 7pm, Church
Sun 2/22
Stake Conference, 9am, Church
Sun 2/22
Duty to God Family Enrichment Night
Wed 2/25
YM Activity, Scouts, 7pm, Church
Fri-Sat 2/27-2/28
YM Campout, 5pm, Church
Sat 2/28
Stake Youth Activity, 6-9pm, Millen Church

Thank you for your support, please contact me or a member of the Young Men’s Presidency with any questions or concerns,

Sincerely,

Darron Alvord
Stevens Creek Ward
Young Men’s Secretary
darronalvord@gmail.com
706-736-8241

Eagle Rank Requirements

Just found a cool site that has all the eagle rank requirements on it.

Citizenship in the world

Bro. Stewart has provided a link to info for citizenship in the world. Click here

Nuclear Science

The first week of January, Brother Lowry taught us all about nuclear science. He had a detailed power-point that will help everyone fulfill the requirements for the merit badge. I uploaded the power point to google docs, but have published it here for you to use:




Some of the information does not display, so what I would recommend doing is clicking on the little box next to the number of slides (i.e. where it says (1/19). That takes you to the full size power point. I would highly advise getting that done before next week (Feb 4th), when he'll come back to finish up the requirements with us.

Calendar for February:
4 Feb: Brother Lowry will finish N.S.
11 Feb: Joint Activtiy, Deacons are in charge
18 Feb: Duty to God night
25 Feb: Boards of Review, Brother Stewart will be with us to finish up requirements for Citizenship in the world.

Hunting Island

Fishing off the pier

Cool picture of the "horsies!"

not catching much of anything

swimming in January?

chocolate SPAM is delicious

Breakfast

Last weekend we had an excellent campout at Hunting Island. We arrived around 8:30, set up camp, had dinner, and then played a little steal the flag. In the morning we got up, some of the boys went swimming, and then we fished off the pier on the Fripp inlet.

So now that we've started telling parents that this blog is going to be a resource, we better make it a resource. Just saying that we're back in the blog business.

Picassa Album

Bro. H just sent me a link to a picassa album of the 50-miler

On top of the World

Chafe

The Rocket

Hercules

The scoutmaster takes a picture

Our Fearless Leader

this snake was a lot bigger when it was rattling and staring us in the face

Smokies

this is the initial picture of the trip that we took this past weekend. We started on top of Clingman's dome in the Smokies, and went to Fontana Dam. More to come...

Day 1

JULY

July has been a busy month for the young men, and many have been out of town on vacations throughout the month. We began the month with another activity for the Golf Merit Badge. We went to Wedges and Woods where we were given a substantial discount and practiced golf shots on the driving range and putting green. The youth experienced an exercise in obedience at the Stake Youth Conference. All youth were asked to come dressed appropriately for a service project, an activity about which many were initially discouraged. Upon arrival, the youth found out the service project was actually a laser tag event, and all had an enjoyable time. The young men have also been working on the Space Exploration Merit Badge. There will be a Court of Honor in August, and we hope to have as many as possible qualify for these two merit badges.

August Wed 8/6 YM Activity, Space Exploration w/Bishop Horton, 7pm, Church Thurs-Sat 8/7-8/9 50-miler for Young Men 14 and older, 8/7-4:30pm, Church Sun 8/10 Sunday Evening Discussion, 7pm, Location TBA Wed 8/13 YM/YW Joint Activity, 7pm, Church Sat 8/16 Stake Dance: Seminary Kickoff, Dressy, 7pm, Church Sun 8/17 Bishop Youth Committee Meeting, 12:15pm, Bishop’s Office Wed 8/20 Boards of Review & Duty to God Interviews, 7pm, Church Sat 8/23 Golf Merit Badge w/Darron Alvord, 4:00pm, Church Wed 8/27 Scout Court of Honor, 7pm, Church

ANNOUNCEMENT

This Saturday morning at 8:00 am will be the Pioneer Day breakfast. We have been asked to give a flag ceremony for the start of the breakfast. We'll need everyone there in their brown shirts/green pants, and hopefully someone can find the bugler so that he can participate. Extra spam to everyone who shows up!

Space Exploration, etc.

Last night the troop met to assemble their rockets (which will be launched at a to-be-determined date). Everything went well, as long as you stayed away from the burning glue, a super-glue that gave off heat energy as it solidified.

After the rockets were partly assembled, we had some great games of dodge-ball. Swamp-donkey showed us all how to play.