Court of Honor

Hoss was in charge of conducting the last Court of Honor as part of the communications merit badge. In his planning, he decided that he wanted to do a flag retirement ceremony as part of the program. My parent's neighbor had a flag, as you can see, extremely tattered and torn, still flying on their pole. With the help of my dad, Hoss went over to his house and politely asked if he could retire his flag as part of a ceremony for Boy Scouts. We weren’t sure if this would offend the neighbor or not, however he was more than grateful and said he already had a new flag, but just hadn’t found the time to replace it. When we think of flag etiquette, a tattered flag should never be flown. The ceremony was so beautiful, so patriotic, and so humbling to watch.

Mystery Missionary BYD

The BYD this month was a Mystery Missionary Panel. We had 6 returned missionaries, that live in our ward, hidden and the youth had to guess Who they were and Where they served. The youth were divided up in teams and given a list of all the people in our Ward that have served missions and another list of places they served. The youth were placed in the Relief Society room with the 6 panel members hidden in the Primary room. Jim Stewart provided a voice alteration system that kept the game interesting and hilarious.  Each team started out with 20 points and were docked 10 points for each missed question and awarded 15 points for each correct guess. They were not allowed to ask the contestants who they were or where they served. Other questions were open. Team ‘Wasted Potential’ won with 85 points. After all the missionaries were revealed the contestants and youth met in the gym for yummy apple cobbler provided by Brian Wolfe and the chance to view tables set up by the contestants, Bishopric and their wives.

Team - 'The Originals'

Team - 'USA'

Team - 'Wasted Potential'

The Mystery Missionaries

Team - 'Girl Trapped'

Team - 'Good Looking'