Meet the Cusicks

Mark & Stefanie Cusick Family
We have raised our children while living in North Provo for the past 23 years. Our children have all attended Timpview High School. Our family loves to travel together, ride mountain bikes and spending time at Lake Powell.
Mark – Grew up in northern Utah from a small the small town of Bear River City, attending Box Elder High School and the University of Utah. Mark has served as a Young Men’s Advisor, Young Men’s President, Bishops Counselor, High Counselor, Bishop, Stake Presidency and most recently back as his favorite calling as Priest Quorum Advisor. Mark has worked mainly in commercial finance, venture capital and real estate development. Mark loves to develop businesses. Mark exercises daily, rides his mountain bike, tours the western US on his BMW motorcycles, and loves the mountains. Mark also enjoys traveling, playing golf and trail running.
Stefanie – Grew up in Provo, Utah and attended Timpview High School, BYU, UVU and has a Radiologic Technology license from Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. She recently obtained her Real Estate license. Stefanie has served in primary presidencies, was a Marriage and Family Relations instructor, Young Women’s president, Camp Director, Relief Society instructor and counselor in the Relief Society presidency. In a past life, she loved to play tennis until children began to grow up and then she became a chauffer, referee of 4 boys and a tennis mom for her daughter Kate. Stefanie enjoys exercising, European travel, musicals and old movies, good chocolate and spending time with her family.
Andrew and Dana Cusick – Andrew is our oldest. Andrew and Dana graduated from BYU this past April. Andrew married Dana in July of 2012. Andrew is preparing to take the GMAT exam prior to starting a new job for Deloitte Consulting in Washington DC this summer, working with their business risk teams. Andrew loves sports, played basketball in high school then switched to football and track at BYU. Andrew served a Church Mission to the France Paris Mission. Dana completed her soccer career at BYU this year, finishing this season making it to the elite 8 in the NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament.
Cameron Cusick – Cameron loves all sports and water skiing. Cameron is easy to get along with and never misses a party. Cameron is transferring to BYU Hawaii this fall as a sophomore. He plans to study business and property management. Cameron loves the beach, so his beachfront student housing will make him happy this fall. Cameron served a mission in the Brazil Fortaleza Mission and returned in August of 2011. Cameron is certainly the kindest member of the Cusick family. He is quick to laugh and loves life. 

Brandon Specialized Training

Elder Freeman, Rands, Fitzner, Jarquin and our Visa Missionary Elder Williams

 Photographers Elder Martin, Amadi, Peters and Packard

 Knocking the headaches from Elder Horne forever

 Elder Martin, Peters, Fedderson,Amadi, Rands, Thuett and Jarquin

 Sisters celebrating their commitment to be "Remember This" missionaries

 District Unity sporting their ties.

 Sister Wakefield

 HermanaVargas will be returning when we do. She is a fairly new member and now she will be an Returning missionary

 Elder Amadi always happy....loving his mission

 Valiant Elder Thuet

Jubilant missionaries

Tampa Specialized Training

Sorry that I don't have more pictures. i took them on my iphone and I don't know how to find them here.

Demolished Kitchen

 This is what our kitchen looked like when we returned from our Road Trip

The worst part was the hot water had been turned off. This is just more good Emergency Training for us.  And the new kitchen will be great and done in time for the Cusicks.

Haitians - Ft. Myers - Andrea

Elder Hales Returns with honor. When he left, they put 24 pink flamingos in their  yard. He removes the last one.

 Tuesday: Haitianary Specialized training. Elder Brown teaching us the Plan of Salvation. He uses an army man and candy to teach us each step. I like associating the 'sweet candy with the sweet gospel'

 Below Elder Wilson teaching us. Sorry I got him with his eyes closed. He gave a powerful testimony

 Elder Hogge teaching us above and Elder Olschewski below.

 Elder Paupulaire

 The whole group: Elders Elliott, Hogge, Wilson Thomas and Stegall in back with Elders Brown, Paupulaire, Cornia and Olschewski in front.

 It was a sweet, spirit filled meeting. It was good to be with them again. It has been a while because of the influx of young missionaries keeping us so busy for a bit.

Wednesday Morning:After the Specialized Training we attended  District Meeting in Lehigh. Role play of Elder Brown and Cornia teaching Elders Stegall and Wilson

 Role play by Elders Vanderpool, Hill, Salas and Hall with President

 Elder Brown leading the District and multi-tasking.

 The District: Elders Vanderpool, Wilson, Hill, Stegall, Salas, Cornia and Brown

Wednesday Afternoon. After the District Meeting we drove to Ft.Myers for an interview and we were able to visit these Spanish Missionaries.

 Thursday Morning we had business in St. Pete. AFter making sure the missionaries were all hunkered down we headed to see President Emery. Andrea arrived and I am thinking, "this is what we are supposed to not do"

 I thought going over the bridge was treacherous, but these are city streets we floated through.

These are pictures taken from the car window. The irony of it is that last Wednesday, I trained the District leaders about driving in flooding  situations. On Saturday, Elders Junk and Packard were driving on Dale Mabry a major street and their car, affectionately known as Queen Esther, stalled in deep water. I scolded them for driving in water and assigned Elder Junk to teach about flooding in MLC. Well, then I eat crow as I found ourselves suddenly in deep water as we turned the corner from one street to another. It was bad for us to be out in this weather but good to see how bad it can get very quickly. After our meeting with President Emery, the sun was out and the rain had stopped and the streets were dry so we headed back .  While we were crossing the bridge the winds and the rains picked up again. Suddenly the waves were crashing over the wall onto this freeway we were on. As we were about in the middle of the bridge, our phone gets a loud beep and the warning says, "warning there is a tornado in your area, take shelter immediately!" Well, we were on a 'bridge over troubled water' and there was no shelter to be found so we kept driving which is what we teach the missionaries not to do. We arrived home safe and sound but a lot wiser and a lot better able to educate the missionaries on storm dangers. The missionaries were hunkered down in their apartments for the whole day. Thank goodness it was Thursday and weekly planning. We got lots of calls of missionaries pleading to us to let them go out and teach, but we had been out and saw first hand how things can change , so we kept them in.

Bike Wrecks, Baptism and More

 Will and Karen in first race since Boston.. Running their 8 miler in Hanalei

 Elder Southam after face planting while proselyting on his bike. ooooowwwy  This is one of the unfun parts of my job.

 After the face plant - a baptism Joyful day

 With Elder Spear from Washington

 Elders Beus, Babcock, Spear and Willard

Spencer and Luke also ran in Hanalei