Basketball Jones, I Got a Basketball Jones

Hi all!

I'm happy to be a part of this family. My family hasn't really ever done anything like this, but I think that it's amazing that my new family does. I am also beyond overjoyed to see how well I fit into the Gates Family, at least from my perspective, but that's also not a surprise due to how well I (obviously) feel that my wife and I match up.

The only hard part (of course) about this season of service is not necessarily knowing those in honor of whom I am supposed to be performing my small act(s) of service. I could even say that I know Tiffany, Mike, and Mitzi pretty well because Darcy and I have gone down to Utah a lot since we started dating. Obviously, Garrett and I get along very well because Idaho boys have to stick together. There is a right way to say Boise, after all. However, I drew Michael Hock's name, and I didn't know him at all!

I do know that he is very into sports, and Dad (Wayne) says that I need to mention that he's probably the second best athlete that I've had the pleasure of meeting in person. The first would be Dad himself. I had also heard that the sport of choice is basketball, and so my service fell into my lap from there.

I was at work when one of my coworkers called and said that he wanted to do something to get back in shape. He asked me how good I was at basketball from a 1 to LeBron, and I had to tell him that I was probably only a 2. His response was that I'm probably better than him, and that he would like for us to meet for basketball to help him with his fitness goals.

A byproduct of this call is that I haven't necessarily done my season of service action as of yet, but it is that I will be spending some of my mornings (and losing some of my precious sleep) helping a friend and playing basketball. I hope that Hock would approve!

Love from Tyler

P.S. My middle name is Tyler and my first name is Ryan. Because of that, I tried to add some HTML code to this page in honor of Ryan, but Blogspot takes the fun out of website development.