Kelli's Recipe

Have you ever wondered how to make something as awesome as a Kelli? Fortunately, we have a recipe. A classmate in her interpersonal communications class, made the following recipe to fulfill an assignment for getting to know a classmate. So, here's Kylie's recipe for Kelli.

If Kelli Were a Recipe

In one bowl add and mix well:

2 cups of family
1 scoop of violin
3 tablespoons of cats and bears
2 ounces of books
2 teaspoons of movie watching
1/4 cup of wanting everything clean
A sprinkle of seriousness
A dash of her favorite colors blue and purple
1 pound of the outdoors
2/3 cups of her sister being her best friend
6 ounces of silly friends

Once everything is mixed well in the bowl, slowly pour into a 13X9 in. pan. Preheat the oven for 375 degrees and cook slowly for 19 years.

Bryce's Mission News

Dear Mom, Dad, and everyone else,

thanks for your emails! It was good to hear from you, and it was great to talk to you all on the phone. Happy Birthday, everyone that I forgot to send cards to...

Well, things to a spin for the unexpected this weekend. Everyone was 110% positive this wouldn't happen. I'm getting transferred to a new area for the last five weeks of my mission. I haven't been quite sure how to take it in, with all the things that are happening in Anaheim 6th ward and the fact that I have so little time left. It's especially disappointing with RJ's baptism coming up and with teaching Haley and Angie and visiting Brother Gubler. But President Harmsen is called of God and is an inspired man, and I know this is happening for a reason, though I did have to look up scriptures on doing whatever your asked to do, and I reread the lyrics to "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go." Mostly just to comfort myself. But I'm also kind of excited. My new area is the Raymond Ward in the city of Fullerton. Maybe it was founded by our ancestors, eh? My new companion will be Elder Puga from Mexico (don't know which part yet), who has been a friend of mine for the whole mission. Elder Puga goes home six weeks after I do.

RJ's baptism is scheduled for the 29th of May, and I'll be able to come back for it. Hopefully Haley's baptism will be shortly after. On Sunday we were excited because RJ and Haley's mother came to church! Hope she keeps going.

(Miles asked Bryce about people he had worked with on his mission)

Here's the list:
Diem and Will Lewis (Irvine)
Dustin Gunderson (Irvine)
Rick Nguyen (irvine)
Rocio Rodriguez (A4)
Melissa Stringham (A4)
Tina Ohai (taught in A4, baptized in Hawai'i)
Jenny Mitchell (A4)
Dolly Germinehart (A4)
Niki Unga (A4)
Shawn Jones (Yorba Linda)
Tyler Sirrat (Placentia)
Gunner Vanderlaan (Placentia)
Libby Hout (A6)

Don't know if you remember all of those people, but those are the people who have made my life amazing for the past 2 years. Along with all kinds of great active members, less active members, and eternal investigators who were super loving kind to me and my companions, of which there are too many to list.

Also, I started compiling a list of scriptures that have come to mean a lot to me during my mission and I wanted to give you some of the references. Maybe you'll enjoy them;

Ezekiel 33:1-7
3 Nephi 27: 14
1 Corinthians 2:9
Mosiah 4:9-10, 12
Moroni 10:18

Well, I love you all. Take care, and thanks for all you love and prayers and support. I'll let you know how things are going next week. Later!

-Bryce

We've Entered the 21st Century!

I've finally decided to bring myself , and my family along with me, into the 21st century! For several years now, my students have been bombarding me with invitations to Facebook and sending me links to their blog pages. I finally realized that a blog page would be an easy way to share news and photos with friends and family. Perhaps other members of the family or our friends would also like to start blog pages to keep us updated with what is happening in their lives.

The biggest news in our lives is that Bryce is coming home on June 24th! We're so excited to have him come home. He has matured so much on his mission and we're anxious to be blessed by the wonderful spirit he has with him. Those who know Bryce know that he is very quiet. Perhaps when he gets home we can get more of those mission stories that we've hoped to hear out of him. He will be speaking on June 29th in our ward. Our sacrament meeting starts at 1:30. We hope to see some family and friends there.

We've also been excited to see Kelli start college. She was very nervous about it the first week. She has done very well in the introductory psychology class she is taking from me. Whew! I'm very relieved too. It's hard enough to deal with students griping about their grades but the possibility of that student living in my own house added a new dimension to the grading process. Kelli actually tied for the second highest score on the last exam. Perhaps we are witnessing the beginning of another psychologist's career. I suppose time will tell.

Anika is still working on getting enough supervised driving hours to take the driving test. We haven't provided her with many driving opportunities -- we don't go that many places. She gets to drive back and forth to seminary but that will end this week. Hopefully she'll get some good driving hours in this summer as we travel to see family in Utah. She drove me down to Tremonton, Utah last weekend. She is a very good driver and I had to work hard to not simply fall asleep.

Hyrum just celebrated his 4th birthday today! It's a good thing that he got to add another year to his lifespan since he is fond of using the expression, "years ago, I ...." That expression is just slightly more plausible now. He's a cute little boy who finds lots to be excited about. It's hard not to catch some of his enthusiasm. It was a big weekend for him with his 4th birthday and his first camp out last night.

I, Chris, was a bit less excited to celebrate my 44th birthday on Friday. The years are flying by and there is still so much I want to learn and experience. More than anything, I want to have many more years with my wonderful family! All the Lowrys were very happy that the Brian Fuller family could come spend some time at our camping site. Family is everything!

Anyway, welcome to the Lowry Clan News site. We hope that you enjoy it.