Mudday, Tuesday, or P-day?

L-R: Elder Duncan, Keegan, Alisa, Elder Olson, Brock (in front), Micah, Elder Lavin, Levi, Elder Reyes, Elder Gabor, Stockton, Elder Rendon, Teal.

Today was Veteran's Day! God Bless the Vets!!! So, we had school off and it was the missionaries P-Day! So, we had a day of soccer and fun!! We actually were going to take them up the Columbia Gorge hiking on the beautiful trails of the scenic NW, but the night before, I was checking the weather forecast and there was a RED FLAG on the website that said, "NATIONAL WEATHER FORECAST ALERT". Uh-Oh, that can't be good. I clicked on it and there was a huge storm coming in off the coast, supposed to dump 3 inches of rain on us and bring 40-70 mph winds. Well, these trails were on cliffs. They had cables along them, but nonetheless could be dangerous in bad conditions. The last thing we wanted was to have to call the mission president and tell him we lost a missionary off a cliff :) So, we decided for an "Plan B".

So...this is a pic after a game that we played vs. a girls U-13 team. It's a team coached by a guy in another ward - Tom. It was RAINY (as stated above) and the field was a MESS! Micah's friend Teal and Stockton's friend Brock joined us for this as well. We had 8 missionaries there and some off the mish's did not have cleats or even turf shoes, just running shoes, it was hilarious trying to watch them run! I ended up on my backside a few times and once you did....you just didn't care :) We started out scoring several goals and girls were timid. We decided to play a bit more easy on them to let them score. They did, and then myself and Nicole (not pictured) switched to the girls team so it was all girls vs. all guys...and then we ROCKED!!! It was great! The girls started scoring like crazy. Elder Reyes is crazy good. At one time I took a shot and he dove right in the mud for a save. I jumped on him and squished him in the mud and told him to "stay down" and god him really muddy. Later, I was guarding him and he juked me so bad that I slid and fell right on my "@#%#$"...everyone was like, "AAaaawwweeee"...he came back and jumped on my and said, "AND STAY DOWN" and rubbed mud in my face..it was pretty funny! We tried to take a pic on the field, but it was too muddy...so we came back to our house..this is in our "court" downstairs. So we are missing the Briggs in this pic.

Afterwards, Elder Rendon, Olson and Keegan all stayed for dinner and we all layed around whining about our sore backs :). All in all a great time.