RETRACTION! AHOY!

OUCH!   I forget that not everyone has our family's crazy sense of humor and in my - offish -  in the land of stupid - kind of way indicated in my blog that Elder Hillary was fighting the forces of evil in the following picture:

which to the Edmunds family (a fine family I might add) sounded like we thought their son was evil! 

QUITE THE CONTRARY FOLKS!

WE LOVE THIS GUY!

In fact - the look on the little girls face in the back
was the look on my facewhen I realized that I had done this:

totally put my foot in my mouth without thinking....

(and I don't even like toe jam!)

TO WHICH I APOLOGIZE with all my heart -

AND would like to formally introduce

Elder Hillary's AWESOME companion Elder Edmunds!

No forces of evil here - just a wonderful companion in every way.

Both Utah Elders - from Jordan District Schools  (ok I guess Canyon District now)(Elder Hillary - Jordan High & Elder Edmunds - Bingham High - whew - there would have been trouble if they were from Alta - ok - sorry - Bethany - no offense - it's just a football thing I promise.... we love that our daughter in law is from Alta..... really!), both BYU Cougars (watch out you cute girls!) We will all be cheering on Elder Edmunds (in a year or so) as he is a mighty Cougar Football Player!  He will return (with Honor!) and be a wide receiver for the BYU team - and brings with him a great fighting spirit -

(against evil, finding the good always....)

(Man I'm feeling the hairy toe of the foot I'm chewing on.....)

(Of which is as of today ranked 12th!!)
(No not the toe - BYU!)

I might add that Elder Edmunds kept them alive for 3 days on a 'No Bake Oatmeal Cookie' recipe he had because apparently - it was a "No food" kinda week!  Thanks to his mom - Sister Edmunds, for making sure your son could 'No Bake' or they would have starved! I'm pretty sure I sent the "How to make a sandwich' cookbook right after the first transfer Elder Hillary - didn't you get it?  I don't think that Elder Hillary has ever been out ranked so much in height before! His previous companion Elder Carter was 6'5", and Elder Edmunds is 6'4"!  Ryan is the tallest member of our family at 6'2", but on his mission - he's had more than a couple of reasons to 'look up to his companions!"

Lucky for us - Elder Edmunds family lives very close to us - and they have been very kind to correspond with us through e-mails.  It's been a fun ride as I found out he was headed to the same mission that Ryan would be in (not everyday you get to have a famous person in your mission!)  Soon we would find out that they would actually be companions!  It's been wonderful to hear about their adventures and about the faith promoting stories of those adventures.  We have heard from several people in the area about our 2 sons and their effect on the area.  I was told by a sister living there that 'they had prayed them there'.  The Lord certainly has a great work for them to do - and lucky for our family - it gets to be with a wonderful warrior like Elder Edmunds.  He will be one of our favorite pirates, star fleet commanders, wookies, jeddi knights, a combination of our favorite mutants from X-men (but only the good ones), and of course, the best star from Avitar.... but never, no never, no never, a force of evil. 

 I foresee a box of 'forgive me' treats headed to NM....

We love you Elders!

 (Darn hangnails - they're always the last to go down....)