A Parke Avenue Reading Primer, or The Best Branch Boating Activity EVER!

Get into your assigned reading groups!

It's time for today's reading lesson!

Chapter 1: A River Surprise

See the Stake President drive the boat.
See the boat pull the tube.

See the Elders Quorum President on the middle of the tube.

Go, Elders Quorum President! Go!

See the Elders Quorum President's friends.

See his friends ask the Stake President for "some air".

Silly friends!

See the Stake President go faster.

See the waves.

See the Stake President hit the waves.

Silly Stake President!

See the Elders Quorum President on the tube.

See the tube hit the wave.

See the tube go high in the air (two seconds after this photo was taken).

Wow! Up, up, up, goes the tube.

Up, up, and off goes the Elders Quorum President!

See the Elders Quorum President hit the water.

See the Elders Quorum President look in the water.

What is he looking for?

Oh no! The Elders Quorum President is looking for his pants!

Can you see the Elders Quorum President's pants? No one can find the Elders Quorum President's pants!

See the river.

See the Elders Quorum President without his shorts.

See the Elders Quorum President in the river without his shorts.

See Lisa laugh at the Elder Quorum President's misfortune.

Laugh, Lisa, laugh!

See the tube pulled to shore.

See the Elders Quorum President hide behind the tube.

Hide, Elders Quorum President! Hide!

See Tesha keep her eyes forward.

Don't look, Tesha! Don't look!

See Emily.

See the Man-in-Water-Flag.

See Mindy wish Emily had a "Pantless-Man-in-the-Water" Flag.

See Mindy imagine Emily holding a "Pantless-Man-in-the-Water" flag up, up, up!

Bad Mindy! Bad!

Look!

See the fish in the water.

Look!

See the Elders Quorum President in the water.

The fish are perplexed.

The Elders Quorum President is sad.

See Lisa.

See Lisa run to shore to find a towel.

See Lisa throw the towel to the Elders Quorum President.

Throw, Lisa! Throw!

See the towel go in the water.

See the Elders Quorum President wear the towel.

See the towel and the Elders quorum president leave the river.

Hear the branch members cheer.

Cheer, branch members cheer!

See the Elders Quorum President walk.

See the branch members take cell phone pictures.

Upload to Facebook, branch members! Upload to Facebook!

Foresee the attendance at the next boating activity skyrocketing.

Blast-off, attendance! Blast off!

See the Elders Quorum President be a good sport.

Good Elders Quorum President!

See the branch members adore the Elders Quorum President.

Adore him, branch members! Adore him!
See the Elders Quorum President pause.


See the Elders Quorum President think
.

See the Elders Quorum President remember how he got to the river.


Oh No!


See the Elders Quorum President's motorcycle.

See the Elders Quorum President ride his motorcycle home in a towel.

Go, Elders Quorum President! Go!

See five miles of confused neighbors.

See Mindy go home and post about the Elders Quorum President.

Post, Mindy! Post!

See "the pantless president incident" go down in branch history.

Chapter 2: How the Trent the Trout got his Swim Trunks