Young Ambassador Southern States Tour Log:
April 25, 2011- Raleigh, NC
I stayed the night at Michelle Monson’s house the night before tour and her mom drove us to the airport at 3:25 am. For some reason Michelle had this mask that resembled Nacho Libre and I tried it on.
We flew out of the Salt Lake Airposrt with a layover in Dallas/Fort Worth. While at the airport Brent and I talked to our first person about why there were so many kids in the airport dressed alike. We told him about our tour and the work that we were planning to do. He wished us luck and went on his way.
We arrived in Raleigh around 2:30 pm and went straight to a Stake Center. When we arrived we got strait to work helping to prepare dinner. Whitley and I chopped celery and pecans for our chicken salad dinner with the YSA’s. I ate dinner with Sarah and Andrew, 2 YSA’s. Sarah just graduated from BYU-I in English and she’s pretty sure that she knows Shea. Andrew is getting his PHD in sociology at Duke University. He was a very sharp guy.
We did a fireside that night for the YSA’s and the other members of the stake. It was a great way to start out tour. I stayed the night with the Whitehead family. Clark and Maria were the parents and the three children were staying at their mother’s home. Kate is my roommate.
April 26, 2011- Raleigh, NC
We got up early the next morning and were able to do an outreach at the Moorhead School for the Blind. While I was there I met a girl named Brittany and her boyfriend, Nick. They were both very enthusiastic about the show. Brittany told me that she sings alto and soprano in her choir; plays the violin and piano and she’s only in the 7th grade but she’s taking 8th grade classes. She was the sweetest thing. We performed a few of our numbers an d ended with You’ll Never Walk Alone and I am A Child of God. We sang these two songs down in the audience and Brittany was crying through both of them. She told me that she was embraced to be crying without any real reason but she just had such an amazing feeling inside. I told her that it was ok to cry and that the things we sang about I believed to be true. I was so grateful to have the opportunity to bear testimony of these things to her.
We performed our first show of the tour at Duke University. We got some amazing pictures of the campus.
The show was a success but we have a lot more work to do before the end of the tour. The proceeds went to support the non-profit Food Bank of Central/Eastern Carolina
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