Canada Montréal Mission Alumni

Beginning July 2013, Victor P. Patrick has been called as the new mission president of the Canada Montreal Mission. He replaces President Nelson C Cannon.

CMM’ers

We had a wonderful missionary reunion.   We had about 100 people and were able to catch up with a LOT of people!  What a delight.

Wendell Wagner gave us a great update on the mission from President Cannon (see attached)

We talked about the role that Helaman’s 2000 played when they got home (return missionaries) in helping the Church have no contention, peace, and prosperity.  We used their story to reflect on how what we learned in the mission shapes our lives today. (see attached)

We talked about how missionaries can learn from their experiences in the temple to heal and grow (Sister Ulrich’s talk).

We have an update of many missionaries who were not able to attend (also attached).

All in all, it was a delightful reunion.  We felt the fellowship of our shared experiences and the spirit that unites us.  We are all so grateful for the mission experiences we shared and for the lives we continue to lead.

We will probably do another “big” reunion in 5 years (2017), so mark your calendar!  In between, we may do an annual reunion at our house for those in the area or visiting.  It is just nice to see you and catch up.

Again, thanks for your incredible service as missionaries, but thanks for the lives you are now living.

If you hear from those we have not connected with, invite them to join us.  We are especially sensitive to those who feel they don’t want to connect for whatever reason.  We hope they feel welcome.

We love you all.

Please stay in touch and let us know if you are passing through Utah.

Dave/Wendy Ulrich

This is a reminder of the CMM 10 year reunion.

Hello CMM’ers

We hope you are all doing well.

We would like to remind you of our missionary reunion:

When:    Friday, Oct. 5, 7 to 9:30

Meeting in Chapel about 7:30 to 8:30

We will give out copies of Wendy’s latest book, Temple Experience, about 7:15 (be on time)

Where:  Alpine 6^th ward chapel

Alpine 6^th Ward

901 Village Way

Alpine, UT  84004

How to Dress:  Sunday dress

What:

• Social time … renewing friendships
• Mission update
• Talks by Wendy and Dave Ulrich
• Testimonies

If you can not attend, please send us an update on how you are doing.

We have heard from:

Brenda Law
Brent Thrush
Brian Boring
Chris Gamble
Clark Hyde
Conrad Myler
Dayna Peterson (sister Kidd)
Elder Shurtliff
Elder Weigel
Jaaron Peterson
Justin Hurst
Mike Plastow
Philip Radnotti
Shaun Payne
Shyanne Tibbits Skalski
Spencer Andreason
Tyler Ahlstrom
Vatea Chevrier

We hope to hear from more of you.

Please forward to others from the mission.

Ulrich Update:

Wendy’s new book, Temple Experience: Passage to Healing and Holiness still ranks #1 best seller in books on Deseret Book.  You can order at  http://deseretbook.com/Temple-Experience-Passage-Healing-Holiness-Wendy-Ulrich/i/5082902    She is doing talks at Time Out For Women in Richfield (Utah), Atlanta, and Portland this fall as well as other talks in the Utah area.

Dave continues to travel and write.

We hope you will stop by and visit if/when you are in Utah area.

Hello CMM’ers

We hope you are all doing well.

We would like to remind you of our missionary reunion:

When: Oct. 5, 7 to 9:30

Meeting in Chapel about 7:30 to 8:30

Where: Alpine 6th ward chapel

Alpine 6th Ward

901 Village Way

Alpine, UT 84004

How to Dress: Sunday dress

What:

· Social time … renewing friendships

· Mission update

· Talks by Wendy and Dave Ulrich

· Testimonies

If you can not attend, please send us an update on how you are doing.

Please forward to others from the mission.

Ulrich Update:

We were privileged to participate in youth conference in Ottawa with Montreal, Ottawa, and Kingston stakes. What a marvelous experience to connect with these outstanding youth and their capable leaders. We talked about helping the youth “arise and shine forth” (youth theme this year) by being aware of their strengths, resilient in the face of difficulties, and connected to God. It was a marvelous event and we were so honored to be there.

Wendy has a new book out .. .Temple Experience: Passage to Healing and Holiness. It has been 10+ years in the writing and you can order at http://deseretbook.com/Temple-Experience-Passage-Healing-Holiness-Wendy-Ulrich/i/5082902 It has done very well so far. You will recognize themes she has been working on for some time. She is doing talks at Time Out For Women in Boise, Richfield (Utah), Atlanta, and Portland this fall as well as other talks in the Utah area. She teaches young adults in Sunday School and is in the Relief Society presidency. She has also worked for a missionary committee on a new “Missionary Stress Management” guide that is being used in MTC.

Dave has been writing … more book on human resources and leadership. He is also traveling a lot doing talks and consulting on these topics. He teaches 16/17 year olds in Sunday School and high priests and teachers quorum.

We are so grateful for our three kids and 3.2 grandchildren. We enjoy time with them and enjoy living our lives through them. We look in the mirror and realize we are aging! But, when we look in our hearts and minds, we feel vibrant and engaged. We like living in Alpine and enjoy visiting with you when you are in the area.

Last week we celebrated two of our favorite anniversaries. On June 28 we remembered the day we were married in the Oakland temple 37 years ago. And on July 1 we remembered the day we arrived in the Canada Montreal Mission ten years ago.

We vividly remember driving up to the mission home, entering the mission president’s office, and seeing for the first time the faces on “the board” of all the missionaries we would come to know and love. We didn’t know your names, but we could feel your spirits. We felt overwhelmed by the responsibility we had taken on. And over the next weeks and months, we learned even more about how intimately the Lord knows and loves each of you.

Even though our time with some of you was very brief, we quickly came to love you and think of you as ours. As new missionaries arrived we felt like our family was expanding, and as others went home we were stunned by the intensity of the grief we felt to have to say goodbye.

Fortunately, we didn’t have to say goodbye forever – and this fall will be a chance to say hello again! If you haven’t been to a mission reunion, or haven’t been in awhile, this is the year to come! As we celebrate our ten year anniversary of arriving in the mission field, we invite all of you who can to join us on Friday, October 5 at 6:30 pm for the Canada Montreal Mission Reunion at the Village Way chapel (901 E Village Way, Alpine, UT 84004).

We even have a theme for the night. You guessed it: “Je Me Souviens!” We hope you’ll join us for a time to share memories and catch up on new developments, to remember the spirit of the wonderful people of Quebec and Ontario, and to feel a renewed reminder of the importance of the most important phase of your mission – the one you are in right now.

Traffic is always a problem on the Friday night before conference, so leave early so we’ll have plenty of time (and so the kids can get home and get to bed at a decent hour). We’ll have food set out by 6:30 so you’ll have something to munch on while you chat with old friends, then we’ll have a “zone conference” at 7. We’ll get an update on the mission, sing, share testimonies, and hear a little “training” for The Mission, Part 2 (the part you’re in now).

As an incentive to get there early, the first twenty people to arrive will receive a free copy of Sister Ulrich’s new book, The Temple Experience: Passage to Healing and Holiness, which debuts in August.

Evacuating from the Quail Fire (see Wendy’s Deseret News article on our experience at http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865558610/Quail-Fire-Reflections-from-the-sidelines.html) slowed us down a bit this week in getting this message out to everyone – but as we left our home with sober thoughts of what we would take and what we would leave behind, pictures of Montreal and Quebec City were in the car with our most precious things. How glad we are that we don’t have to leave the most precious pictures of all – the pictures we carry in our hearts of your faces.

Even if you aren’t active in the Church right now, even if you have doubts about your mission, even if you aren’t happily married with two children in tow, even if you aren’t sure what you are doing with your life, and even if you can’t remember a soul from all those years ago, we hope you’ll come. So spread the word, mark your calendar, book your flights, get your babysitters – or whatever else it takes to join us for a wonderful, healing, uplifting evening together.

I read in the BYU Alumni magazine that Shauna-Sue Holt passed away in October 2010. She served in the CMM starting at the same
time I did.

Her obituary is here:

http://www.caringroup.com/fh/csg/obituaries/obit_details.asp?obitid=1266

CMM’ers

We appreciate hearing from so many of you and of visiting with many of you at the reunion.

We had a delightful reunion.   We had about 50 folks.

• We spent time socially.
• We shared memories of the mission field and felt the spirit of that service.
• We received some updates of the mission … the incredible service from the Saints with the floods in Quebec
• We talked about the challenges facing maturing young adults in

o   Marriage (or dating)

o   Children

o   Professional (school/work)

o   Self

o   Church/spirituality

• We shared how the mission supported our lives today.

We missed many of you and hope to be able to contact all of you in the future.  We especially missed some of the singles … we are a mixed group and hope that all feel comfortable.

We are likely to find someone who can create a more connected website, facebook, linkedin, etc. for all the missionaries who have served.

Please note today Friday, Oct 5, 2012 for next reunion.

May we share our love for each of you.  We hope we can continue to be available to each of you as you would like to share good news or bad, to talk about choices, and to simple feel the spirit that so enriches our lives.

Our thoughts are with you.

Dave/Wendy Ulrich

CMM’ers

This is another reminder for the date of September 30, 2011 for our annual missionary reunion.

Location:  Alpine 6^th ward chapel in Alpine Utah
Alpine 6^th Ward
901 Village Way
Alpine, UT  84004

Time: 6:30 to 10 pm
Dress:  Sunday/Missionary (no one turned away but it is nice to dress like missionaries)
Invited:  CMM missionaries, families, and friends
Agenda:  Casual conversation, reunion meeting, and food

If you can not attend, we hope that you can send us an update on how you are doing that we can share with others.  We notice we are hearing from those who are married and doing great … any others out there?

To date, we have heard from:

Dayna (Kidd) Patterson
Nathan Dean
Richard Peterson
Brian Boring
Gordon Duval
Joel Beevers
Jeremy Dickerson
Benn Manning
Shayanne (Tibetts) Skalski
Jennifer Gordon
Chris Bingham
Angie (Johnson) Lewis
Heather (Holt) Ure
Stuart Hardy
George Gilkey
Peter Foulger
Nathan Cureton
Brian Peterson
Clark Hyde
Karen (Barnard) Jacobs
Jay Talbot
Conrad Myler
Tyler Ahlstrom
Jared Markham
Tasha and Vaughn Uber
Jamie Christensen
blake willey

We hope to hear from as many of you as possible, particularly if you can not attend.
Also, if there is something you would like us or you to talk about at the reunion, what would it be?

Dave and Wendy Ulrich

PS:  if you know of any CMM missionary whose name is not on the long list or who has changed contact information, please let us know!

CMM’ers

We trust and hope you are all doing well.  We like so much to hear from you about the good (and hard) news of your lives.  We have missionaries graduating, getting married, having kids, getting jobs, buying houses, serving others, and all the things associated with this life stage.  We also have missionaries struggling with work/school, marriage/dating, kids (physical and emotional tragedies), faith/service, and other life realities  at this life stage.  We appreciate hearing from you about both parts of your life.  We believe that honest conversations helps us celebrate successes and learn from  failures.

And a rousing “YES” to Elder Snell (he and his wife served in the office in 2004/2005).  You can see from the attached that he was named the Utah poet of the year. This is  remarkable honor.     You can see the story below and read some of his attached poems.  Well done to him!

Deseret News: Snell named Utah poet of the year
The Utah State Poetry Society has named Lee C. Snell of Highland as the 2011 poet of the year. Snell’s manuscript, “Night Wind Home,” has…

See it here: Deseret News: Snell named Utah poet of the year

Reunion!

Recall that we are doing on reunion a year, around October conference.

Date:  September 30, 2011, 7 to 9:30 or so

Where:

Alpine 6^th ward

901 E Village Way
ALPINE, UT 84004

Activities: talks, sharing, catch up

We hope you can hold the date.

Please keep updating us on your life … good and bad.  Come by to visit if/when you are in the region.

Dave/Wendy Ulrich

CMM’ers

We hope you all enjoyed conference.  What a delight to hear words of wisdom and inspiration.  We had some family experiences where did the experiment of praying for an answer to a specific question and in one of the talks a very direct and pointed answer was given.  A tender mercy from General  Conference.

We have heard from many of you and we share those comments with others.  As we hear from others, we will share them as well.

Each time we hear from you our hearts are touched as our minds remember the sweet (cold and difficult too) experiences in Quebec.   What a remarkable blessing to have served with such valiant and faithful folks.   We continue to pray for and worry about you all.   If you are able, we like to visit with you in Alpine where we live.

Wendy continues to writer her columns in the Deseret News (search her name on the web site) and Dave continues to plod forward in his work on leadership, talent, and HR.  We are delighted with our family and opportunities for formal and informal service in the kingdom.

Take care,

Dave and Wendy Ulrich