Rocking Out At The Ward Party

Saturday was one of the best ward activities I have ever been to! It was totally unique, a chance to support a lot of members of the ward, super fun, and increased good will in the community. Did we paint a fence? Nope. Did we do yard work at a cemetery? Nope. Did we help in a soup kitchen? Nope.

We went to a basketball game.Yep we went to the local community college's basketball game. The head coach and one of the assistant coaches are members of our ward along with 4 or 5 of the guys on the team (since the coach recruits quite a few members). We held a "tail gate party" before hand, which since it is February in Nebraska meant we had hot dogs in the gym at the church. All of the members of the team where there and we got to know quite a few of them. They have players not only from the usual Utah and Arizona, but 2 from Mexico and even one from Serbia! They were all really nice guys and it was great to actually know a little about them before we went to cheer for them.

The ward also had materials to make posters and the coaches wife even had signs with her husbands face that we held up when our team scored, which was often. They thanked the ward, twice, at the game, for sponsoring the players and having the cook out, and we made up a big section of the audience at the game. It reminded me a little of the games at Paraclete where the scores of one team where double the other. Only in this case I got to cheer for the winning team! My favorite part was this:

and this: