Polly's First Talk in Church!!

August 21, 2011 Polly gave her first talk in church.  She wrote her talk herself, while we taking Allison to St. George.  She is an exceptional writer.  The talk was on the 8th article of faith.  She said the article, and then she told a Bible story about David and Goliath, and then she told some of her favorite scripture hero's from the Book of Mormon.  Here she is practicing her talk.  When she got up in church to talk, she was so nervous.  She told me before that she was nervous, but I had no idea how bad.  Her voice trembled right from the start.  She tried to take a breath and collect herself, but it just seemed to get worse.  Then tears started.  She never quit talking, even though she was struggling.  At one point during the talk she had her elbow on the pulpit, and she lay ed her head on her hand and went "hugh".  It was so cute.  Scott and I were right in her field of view.  We were so puffed up with pride.  She was so scared, but she never quit, and she stuck it out and finished it.  She had almost everybody in the congregation tearing up with her.  You could tell that everybody was rooting for her.  When she sat down, she couldn't stop tearing up, it was so very cute.  After the meeting, so many people came up to her, to tell her that she did an awesome job.  Adults that she would never had thought told her thank you for a great talk, and how much the spirit was there, and how "she" was like David, fighting against Goliath.  He didn't quit and neither did she.  She felt so good after word.  I loved how the ward rallied around her and made it a great experience.  She will never forget it.  This was the same Sunday that Lillian got her YW award, and, Tony was our High Counselor, so Grandma and Grandpa were there, Grandma Sherry, and Rachel's family was there, so we had a good crowd of family.  Polly was very brave and did so great and we were so proud of her.






Polly also had to write a paper in school about her favorite relative and it was too funny not to have documented to here it is......




My favorite relative is my dad, even though he is in his forties and seems to be shrinking he still has a whole lot of power strength an determination left in him.  My dad loves to quote movie lines, so out of the blue we will hear him say a movie line and we will all try to guess it the fastest.  Sometimes it is hard to realize what he is quoting because half of us probably haven't sen it yet or it is so old that we don't even know what he is talking about.  He has brown hair with gray splashes in it, he is very buff from working so hard everyday. When we vacation in Mexico the people there always ask him if he is from Spain, now we always say that we have a "true" Mexican in our family.  One of his idiosyncrasies (that we love to tease him about) is that he never uses his blinker light because he doesn't want to where it out.


When I am out in public with my dad, every turn we make he's either saying hello to someone or shaking some ones hand.  He knows everyone.  My dad knows everything and anyone you could think of.  He was the salutatorian in high school and he graduated as Summa Cumlaude with two degrees at ASU.  He is so smart and right about everything.  He played on the high school all-star basketball team.  He is absolutely amazing at any sport, give him a minute to read a book about it and watch some people play it and he'd be going pro.  My dad fought hundreds and hundreds of really important fires that saved millions of lives he is such an important man in my life and in many others.


I love my dad because he is hilarious, loving, Brilliant, very athletic, very brave, and my hero.  That is why he is my favorite relative.