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Halloween
Family Home Evening carving.Partial harvest of gourds and pumpkins from our garden.Where's Waldo (Joel), Where's Wenda (Sarah), Soccer Referee (Will).Marie sewed the flag.Marie knitted four hats and...
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Basketball Will
For the past few weeks Will (#25) has been enjoying playing basketball in a city league for first and second graders. They play in an old gym behind the Art Museum that was once the gym for Springville...
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Grandma Tueller's Birthday
This evening the Wasatch Front Tuellers gathered at the Brick Oven Restaurant to celebrate Grandma Tueller's 83 birthday. Joel went to bed still stuffed from all of the pizza he ate.
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Second Annual Sweat Lodge
Saturday evening I joined with three young men (we were hoping for more young men but some had good excuses for not coming while others did not) and four other adult Young Men leaders for the third...
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Great to be Eight
 Eight years ago today, Will Emmett entered the world. He was the third child to be delivered by Caesarian Section, but the first to be delivered by plan and not emergency.  To celebrate, he invited...
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Oh Come All Ye Faithful
My first Christmas in Semarang, Indonesia was limited to a sparse selection of Christmas Music. All I had were the Christmas carols in the LDS hymnbook that I could play on a small pump organ and a...
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Christmas Card (Courtesy of Sarah)
Well, I'm proud to announce that this year we almost got into the planning stages of our (supposedly) annual Christmas Card. Unfortunately by the time we had any sort of an idea it was already half way...
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Challenges Facing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Indonesia
Earlier this fall, Elder Subandriyo (Area Authority Seventy for the LDS Church) asked if I would be willing to write a short essay about the status of Mormons in Indonesia for the Indonesian Journal...
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Christmas 2012
The Christmas season began for us the day after Thanksgiving when we drove to Logan to help Grandma Emmett put up her Christmas trees. Throughout the month of December we enjoyed Advent readings and...
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Will's Baptism
Saturday January 5th was a double banner day: Will was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and we celebrated Marie's birthday. Emmett and Tueller family...
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The joy of teaching geography to BYU freshmen.
Most semesters at BYU I teach a large section of Geography and World Affairs (World Regional Geography). Last semester I had a full classroom of 180 students and this semester I have a full classroom...
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Indonesian Floods
Today was to have been a day of sunny and warm skiing at Brighton where we would escape the murky haze and below freezing temperatures of a long lasting inversion down in the valleys. Unfortunately, it...
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January
It has been a cold January with a long yucky inversion. That hasn't kept us from being anxiously engaged in good things. This past week Will rediscovered the joys of bubble baths.On Saturdays when he...
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Pinewood Derby and Orchestra Concert
Tuesday night Will competed in his first Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. A few weeks ago former neighbor Mike Burt used his expert woodworking skills (he helped build one of the podiums in the LDS Conference...
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Mesquite, Zion, Bryce
Thursday after school (and after my morning visit to mom in the hospital in Ogden following open heart surgery last week) we headed south for the President's Cup soccer tournament in Mesquite, Nevada....
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Idle Isle Almond Cream Toffee
The other day I called my mom at the rehabilitation center in Logan to see how she was doing (she had heart surgery two weeks ago). As we visited, she told me about a very vivid dream she had had. In...
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Not bad for a March 2nd
It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day at Brighton Ski Resort today. This was our seventh day of skiing this year and my plan that improved skiing comes through skiing has been working. All three of my...
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Flat Stanley in India with Aunt Diane
In Will's second grade class the students all get to mail Flat Stanley (based on a favorite children's book series) to some distant place. Will chose to send Stanley to Chennai (Madras India) where his...
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Little Wild Horse Canyon
Thursday after school 19 Young Men/ Scouts of the Spring Creek 18th ward plus six leaders, four of their younger sons and one extra father (who came to our rescue with an additional car to drive)...
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