This may sound like some sort of announcement.... but its not, so don't get excited.
Moving out to Iowa you would expect to be in a family ward with a wide variety of elderly, families, young couples etc..... you know the typical ward when living outside of Utah. Instead we attend a Married University Ward. I never went to BYU but I imagine that this ward equally compares to their typical wards. Here is one bit of information to prove my point. (I'm not trying to dog on our ward because I can honestly say it is one fabulous ward with so many amazing and great people.)
So the Relief Society has something they call the "Stork Report." (this may not be something new, but seeing that I have been single for the majority of my adult life I have failed to ever see one of these 'reports' before, although I highly doubt it is an official church approved report. :) This report is passed around with other announcements in Relief Society each week and goes out in a weekly email to all Relief Society sisters. In short, it is basically a way of announcing to the rest of the ward that you are expecting a little bundle of joy.This is what the today's email version of the 'stork report' looked like:
Jenni Silvester, October 8, girl
Danica Oliander, October 14, girl
Meesha Dastrup, October 21, boy
Mikelle Hainsworth, October 23, boy
Tina Goodspell, October 24, girl
JoAnna Jacobsen, October 26, girl
Katrina Kinsworth, November 22, girl
Melanie Peabody, January 4, girl
Melissa Thomas, January 17, boy
SaraJane Jensen, January 24, boy
Tiffany Raymond, February 5, boy
Sabrina Talbot, February 8, girl
Mindy Ford, March 3
Whitney Carrigan, March 12
Samantha Rider, March 15
Trudy Samuels, March 30
Trisha Jarods, April 20
New Arrivals:
-Congratulations to the Thomas family! Their new baby boy, Joshua, was born on September 3, and weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces.
-Congratulations to the Thomas family! Their new baby boy, Joshua, was born on September 3, and weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces.
-Congratulations to the Xavier family! Their new baby boy, Michael, was born on September 6th, and weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces.
-Congratulations to the Daniels family! Their new baby boy, Georgie, was born on September 19th, and weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces.
-Congratulations to the Stevenson family! Their new baby boy, Henry, was born on September 22nd. He weighed 5 pounds, 10 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Yes you counted it... that was 17 announced pregnancies and 4 new babies since the first of September. For those out there that have been in married student wards before... is this normal?? I am pretty sure more of our RS sisters are pregnant than are not. I am starting to get a little worried that the Bishop is putting something in the water at our church... Or maybe it is peer pressure coming from the other sisters in the ward to keep up with them. All I know is that I won't be drinking out of the drinking fountains anytime soon.
Anyway I am not quite sure how i just wrote a whole blog post on that.... but I did and you read it. Lucky you.
5 comments:
Thats exactly how our ward in BYU-Hawaii was. Seriously though, a new couple was having a baby each week.
BUT, I think it'd be OK if you drank just a little bit of that water. Aren't you thirsty.
That is crazy!! I have never experienced anything like that before. No pressure on you part. hahah
Okay so I did get a little excited when I saw the title of your blog. But then I just started laughing because that is how the married ward in St.George and Logan were too. Have any of them made their announcement in testimony meeting yet?
p.s. We might be driving through Iowa in a few weeks. I will give you a call if we do.
my family ward in herriman utah is like that. except the list isn't that long. we just have a piece of paper that goes around with the role so that you can put your name on it if your prego. and our weekly announcement always includes a new baby. it is just crazy!! our bishop said that like 70% of our ward is under the age of 18 months!! I thought I was moving into a family ward!
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