November 2012

 Rhea and Frank Willie

Rhea Willie has been in the ward for 7 years while her 2nd son, Frank has been in the ward for a year. They live right next door to each other and are able to share a fence where Frank's dog, Zoey, can freely run back and forth between their homes. Rhea is a busy woman who takes care of her beautiful home, works at the MTC with the Spanish Missionaries and works at the Mt. Timponogos Temple one day a week. Her and her husband were married for 55 years and had many wonderful adventures together. They both served missions in Uruguay before they were married and then were able to serve a mission there together later in their life. They have also served in South America, Spain, Michigan and Nauvoo. While she was serving as a young sister in Uruguay, there were no manuals to preach the gospel in Spanish and spent a  lot of her time translating. Rhea has 6 children, 20 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. She enjoys knitting, crocheting and spending time with her grandchildren. She especially loves "grandma days." An experience that she recalls in her life that helped her faith was the time she truly put Moroni's promise to the test. Some advice she has for the ward members, "Stay close to the church. Stay faithful and keep trying."

Frank served a mission to San Diego, went to BYU for a degree in mechanical engineering but is a "computer geek by trade" according to his words. He has two children , a son and a daughter, and for many years lived in Michigan and Ohio. He served as a branch president for 7 years and a bishop for 3. He enjoys riding motorcycles and has a Suzuki Bandit 1200. He also enjoys being outdoors, camping, snow skiing and is an excellent photographer. He tells of an spiritual experience where he had just moved from Michigan to Ohio but was still the bishop of is ward in Michigan. He said while sitting in sacrament meeting in his new ward, he all of a sudden felt sick. As he thought about it, he realized that he had just been released from his calling as bishop and the mantle of bishop was removed from him. It was a great spiritual experience for him. Some advice he gave to the younger members of the ward, "Keep your priorities straight."

 Tacy Harrison

 Tacy was raised in Orem and is the 5th of 8 children. She has been in the ward for 8 years. She got her bachelors degree from BYU and a Master's Degree from the University of Phoenix in early childhood education. She works with 3-5 year olds as a Head Start Preschool teacher. She has been teaching for 17 years. She did high school for a few years but prefers the younger children. She served a mission in Spain. One of the weirdest things she ate on her mission was squid. She enjoys reading, especially historical fiction. She liked to read books that are "unabridged"  and has read the unabridged version of "Les Miserables" several times. She enjoys cooking (especially homemade pizza), baking and rollerblading. A few other fun things about Tacy: she was named after her grandmother, she broke her right arm in college, she loves all the holidays. Castle and White Collar are her favorite TV shows. One of her favorite place to visit is Sea World and loves spending her summer vacations visiting her sister in Arizona, reading and working on unfinished projects for the upcoming school year. One thing that she loves about teaching is that she is able to see that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses and personalities.

David and Mickey Stinson

David and Mickey were married in August. They met online but it took a video "family home evening" for them to officially meet. They dated for two years before David proposed to Mickey at a concert. David was raised in Orem where he is working with his dad for an online restaurant company. He is also working towards a degree in Culinary Arts and would one day love to own his own catering business or have a food truck. He is a music guru, collects comic books, watch movies, enjoys traveling and of course, cooking. Mickey was raised in Twin Falls, Idaho and her parents now live in Battlemountain, Nevada which has been named the Armpit of America. They have an "Oldspice Armpit Festival" there every year. Mickey served a mission in Arizona. She loves to cook, knit (she once knitted a king sized blanket), scrapbooking, playing the viola and singing. She would one day love to travel to Europe. After they were married, they took a 3 week honeymoon to Arizona and the everything in between here and there. David's favorite snack is anything salty (with a soda along side it) and Mickey loves anything with chocolate!