A funeral today and a sad one at that. The Petmeckys were members of our ward until about three years ago when they moved to the west side of Albuquerque. I remember them attending the Gospel Doctrine sunday school class that I taught. The Case family has been in our ward all the time we've lived in Albuquerque. In his family, Alan was the really faithful member of the Church and he served in the Riverside, California mission just after our son Michael completed his mission "next-door" in the San Bernardino mission.

On Saturday, Alan was in the Pecos wilderness in the mountains in back of Santa Fe camping with some friends when they decided to cut down a tree with Alan taking pictures with a video camera. The tree when it was cut fell into another tree and snapped it in two and the upper part hurdled down on Alan killing him instantly. Alan was cheerful and outgoing and had many friends at school and he was also very active in the Montano Branch for single adults. There were 250 people at his service today. This was a shattering event to his family, but we're hoping that it will bring forth positive things in the future.