Alex's Junior Prom

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Today we had a special stake conference. Our stake president was just called to be a mission president in Argentina so they had to replace him. It was so very cool, the new stake president is Ken Ellsworth. Ken was our former Bishop who was just released a month or two ago. The funny thing is that we spent last night with Ken and Jearldene. As I mentioned yesterday, all of Alex's plans for prom fell through and he was in quite a funk. Lisa finally decided that she would take matters in her own hands and made plans for him. First of all he had no one to go with and Prom is always much more fun if there is a group. Lisa called the mother of Caitlin (one of Alex's friends) who's date had bailed on her and asked if she would go to prom if Lisa could find her a date. Lisa then called another friend of hers and asked if their son Keith would go to Prom with Caitlin if Caitlin would buy the ticket. We then arranged to have Mahonri Sanchez pick the kids up from our house in his fancy car and drive them to dinner. Mahonri is a good friend of ours who is also good friends with Alex. He comes and picks Alex up every Saturday morning to play basketball with the men in the stake. We then arranged to have dinner on the back patio of this real rich family in the ward. Finally Lisa asked our old bishop, Ken and Jerldene Ellsworth if they would serve dinner. Alex really likes Ken and Ken treats Alex like a real person and they get along well. Alex of course had no clue what was going on. Everyone showed up at our house for pictures and then Mahonri showed up dressed in black with an ear bud in. He looked like a real driver. Alex thought it was hilarious as did we all. I picked up Mexican food and drove over to the Smoot's house where Lisa and Jearldene loaded the food onto fine china and Ken served it. After dinner they loaded into our car and headed to Prom. After Prom Alex was pulled over by a cop who harassed him for being out late and for driving other minors. They have a law here that you can't dive other minor children until you've had your license for a year. Alex's year is up and he is allowed to drive other kids. The cop finally gave Alex a breathalyzer test. We're all quite pleased that he passed. I think Alex rather enjoyed the whole experience and I think everyone had a lot of fun. The cool thing is that Ken Ellsworth, who served dinner last night is our new Stake President. It's a good thing we got him last night because I think he will be a very busy man for the next ten years. The poor guy. What a great Stake President he will be, I couldn't be happier. Ken is the guy serving food in the pictures.