Amber Hill

 

Amber was raised in West Bountiful Utah. Her parents moved there when she was 4 years old and they still live there until this day. She was the 3rd child of 8 children. Being one of the oldest brought many responsibilities. She said while growing up her hobby, out of necessity, was babysitting and helping her mom. 

 

Growing up Amber lived in a house with 4 bedrooms one bathroom that all the kids shared, there was plenty of work that needed to be done. From the time Amber was 12 she worked to earn money. With so many little children at home if Amber wanted something she had to have the money to pay for it. She bought all her own school clothes and any kind of entertainment she wanted to have. She said growing up in these circumstances was great preparation for motherhood. She already knew how to care for small children.
 

When Amber was 16 years old she began working in a dental office and started learning how to be a dental assistant. After High School she began working full time. She really liked it and loves the people she worked with. She worked there until her first child was born. With so many siblings at home she didn't think there was any way she could attend college. Now she looks back and sees that if she just would've known about how grants, loans and scholarships worked that she possibly could have gone to school. Her dream now is when her children are older, to go back to school and become a labor and delivery nurse. 
 

In 2003 Amber graduated from Viewmont high school. In 2005 she attended a CES fireside given by Dallin H. Oaks. During the fireside, Dallin H. Oaks talked about dating and how dating has become so extravagant. He mentioned how in his day he would just go up and ask someone if they wanted to go on a walk and then you'd walk  and talk and that would be the date. 
 

After the fireside was over, Matt, Amber's husband, who had seen her come in, approached her and asked her if she wanted to go on a walk sometime. She didn't put the instruction from Elder Oaks together with what Matt was asking so she thought he was really weird to just ask her to go on a walk. After talking for a while she gave Matt her number, but it took them going out a couple of times before she decided he wasn't really that weird. 
 

Amber and Matt dated after that for about a year. When Amber was 21 she married Matt in Salt Lake Temple. The Salt Lake temple had great meaning to Amber. When she was 5 years old, her family was sealed together in that temple. Then again when she was 16 they went back to that temple for her parents to seal their final child to them whom they adopted. All the kids were able to attend the sealing. 

  

After getting married in 2006 they called Matt and Amber to be in the nursery and she has spent almost all her adult life being in Primary and mostly working with the Sunbeams and in the nursery. Currently she is serving with the Primary secretary assisting her. She says she loves her calling and loves how with Primary you get to know so many people. The parents, the other teachers, kids and the primary presidency.  Primary is great way to get to know each other. 

Also, after getting married, Matt and Amber lived in a basement apartment for a few months while they built a house in the Foxboro development in North Salt Lake. They lived there for 7 years and had 3 kids, Korver (6), Livie(4) and Hadlie(2). While Amber was pregnant with her 4^th child, Boston(9 months) they moved into our neighborhood.
 

Amber says she loves living in our neighborhood. She's happy to be in the ward and loves that the neighbors here are so friendly and make it so easy to talk them. She also loves that there are so many children for her kids to play with. What a great addition to our ward Amber makes. 

Food Storage Notes

Here is the link to the "food storage calculator" http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/babysteps/step-4-long-term-food-storage-planning/

Here are the links to my notes that I had at the food storage class: Food Storage Outline

Food Storage Recipes

Food Storage worksheet

If you have any questions please feel free to call, text or email me!  (Tarrah 801-540-9409, Tarrah@digis.net)

Here is a link to the dessert recipe that Julie Hendrickson brought to this activity.

Becky Moody

 

Becky was born in Murray, Utah and raised in Layton. She attended Lincoln Elementary, North Layton Jr. High and Northridge High School. She grew up in a family with 7 kids: 1 older sister and 5 younger brothers.  In her opinion this worked well because the boys couldn't really pick on or tease her and her sister, even though they tried. She says her parents were stalwart examples of service and even now, her dad spends almost every weekend helping someone work on something. She gave them the very high compliment by saying they are very unselfish people.

 

In high school Becky had a lot of energy, which kept her very busy and involved. For her sophomore and junior years she was the class president. During her senior year she was asked to be the seminary president, which would prevent her from serving in student government at the school level. So instead, she served as a state officer in the Utah Association of Student Councils. In this role Becky provided state-wide student officer training, and represented Utah at the National Association of Student Councils.

She also performed in school musicals. For her junior year she was a chorus member in the musical Oklahoma. She says she was so energetic the director kept telling her to hold back a little. He told her she was like beer that would explode over the top with all her enthusiasm. She believes all that energy has served her well as a mother, although now she wishes she has as much energy as her kids.

After high school Becky went to BYU-Provo with a major in nursing. Half way through she took a break to go on a mission. In the spring of 2001 she was called to the Washington DC North mission. Her mother was so relieved because she felt like Becky would be safer serving in the United States.

Becky arrived in Washington DC in July 2001. On September 11, 2001 she, her companion, and a group of missionaries had received special permission from their mission president to spend the day at the Smithsonian Institute museums near the Nation's capital just off of the Mall. While traveling on the Metro someone had mentioned that they thought an airplane had flown into the Pentagon on the south side of the Potomac.

When their group emerged out of the Metro, they were so excited to be there, having a day off for fun. Sirens were blaring and Becky's companion turned to her and said, "Welcome to the City!" The group, with jubilant smiles, asked a man dressed in business attire to take their picture. The man agreed and then after taking the photo very somberly asked if they realized what was going on. He explained that an airplane had crashed into the Pentagon and our country had just been part of the worst terrorist attack since Pearl Harbor. Soon after a police car drove down the middle of the Mall (the grass strip surrounded by national monuments) with a bullhorn telling everyone to leave because there was another plane inbound. The Metro was flooded with people trying to get out of the city, but because they were heading north and didn't need to cross the Potomac, they were able to get back home.

Shortly after 9-11, people in the DC area were again terrorized by the DC sniper. The very first victim was a member of the church,and 2 sister missionaries nearby had rushed to her aid. Despite all the tragedy Becky experienced on her mission, she also had many wonderful experiences and loved it! She loved meeting and working with the large diversity of people, and said she gained a great understanding that there is truth in all religions and all religions strive to do good.

After her mission she went back to BYU to complete her degree in nursing. While there she met her husband Dan. They were in the same ward and apartment complex. He first noticed her at church one day and figured she was just a visitor since he hadn’t seen her before. He was surprised and excited to see her again later that night when she and her roommate took some goodies over to his roommate as a thank you for some help he had given. The girls met all the guys living in the apartment and she remembers thinking they were all stellar guys. They all seemed to have their head on their shoulders with a sense of direction.

On Tuesday Dan called to ask her out for the weekend and she mentioned she needed to go back to campus that night. He said he would drive her so she would be safe. When she went to get out of the car she had an impression to give him a good night kiss. She didn't but she noticed how familiar it felt to be with him. Two and a half months later they were in engaged and 2 ½ months after that, they were married.

After Becky graduated with her nursing degree and Dan finished his MBA they moved to Riverton and Dan successfully completed his CPA tests. One day, Dan was contacted by a recruiter to see if he would be interested in working for Disney in California. They thought it sounded like a great adventure, so they moved to Burbank and then later Pasadena. She said living there was so much fun. They loved frequenting Disneyland. Becky also says one of the most fun things about living there was the Rose Parade. They lived just at the end of the Rose Parade route and it was so much fun seeing the million dollar floats while they were parked by their house. They were so elaborate.

 

After about five years in Southern California, Dan and Becky were missing family and learned Becky’s dad had cancer. They made the decision to move back to Utah, and stayed with Becky’s parents in Layton until their house was completed in May 2014. Becky's dad is now cancer free, but earlier this year Dan unexpectedly lost his dad in a plane accident. Becky and Dan were very grateful to be back in Utah and spend more time with his dad before he passed away.

Becky says their family is grateful to be back in Utah, and to have recently added a child to their family. One of her favorite things is living in our ward. She loves how the people in this neighborhood all seem to go out of their way to include others, regardless of whether or not they are LDS. She also loves the semi-rural feel of the neighborhood. We are so happy to have Becky and the wonderful contribution of friendship she gives to all of us!

Krista Funk

Krista Funk grew up in Layton, Utah. She is the youngest of five children.  She has one brother and three sisters. Out of Krista’s fondest memories growing up some, of her favorites were traveling with her family.   Krista’s family traveled a lot.  In the summers months they would always travel to Georgia where her dad would teach.  They would always take the long way hitting different states until they would get to Georgia.   One time they went through Iowa and camped the whole way. One night it was so hot that Krista decide to sleep outside of the tent and sleep under the stars.  When she awoke she thought she had chicken pox all over again.  It turned out she was covered in chigger bites.  Krista and her family with all their road trips have been to 48 states.

Growing up Krista played all kinds of sports.  She played basketball, soccer, and some club volleyball.  Krista continued to play soccer in college as well.  While going to college at Dixie State her soccer team won the national championship.  Krista than went on to college at Weber where she received her bachelor’s degree in Science Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography. 

                Krista’s first job was at UCLA Medical Center on their Cardiac Heart Transplant team.  While living in California she meet her sweetheart, Derek, in the singles ward.  Derek was there going to dentistry school.   Krista knew she had a good guy after a trip when they drove six hours up to San Francisco.   Krista was running in a race up in San Francisco.  The race was to escape from Alcatraz and race through San Francisco.   While Krista was starting the race, the car was broken into and all their things including their wallets and money were stolen.    While Krista was racing Derek spent the whole day trying to find a way to get money and back home.  He eventually was able to contact his mom and get money wired to a bank.  He also found cardboard to tape up the broken window on the car.   He managed to do all this and still make it to all of the check points to cheer Krista on.  Krista didn’t even know all of this happened until after the race was over.  Krista and Derek got married in the Salt Lake Temple and then went back to California for Derek’s last year of Dentistry school. After completing Dentistry school they moved back to Utah where Derek went to work at his dad’s practice.

                Krista is always busy with her cute kids and their dog, Bailey. She has three beautiful children, Max and her cute twins, Elizabeth and Harrison. Krista wants to get back to running in races.  She also works one day a week at LDS Hospital doing cardiac ultra sounds. 

Krista loves living here and being in this ward.  When you get the time make sure to say hi to Krista.  She is a fun, bubbly, and awesome woman!!!