Is This An Exciting Day For LaVerkin Or What?

La Verkin                                                              Zion Canyon Corridor

About eight years ago, we held a series of well attended community meetings where citizens were asked what they liked about LaVerkin and what they would like to see happen in the future.  A recurring theme mentioned was to beautify and improve State Street, particularly around the main intersection where the state highways  leading to Zion Park meet.

 At 5 pm today we held a ribbon cutting to celebrate a little park/monument we've built at that intersection.  It is something that means a lot to me, and I hope you'll enjoy this photo journal of it!

The Beatitudes Compared To Alma 7:23-24

You may know that I was set apart as a member of my stake high council this morning, something I did not expect at all and certainly not now, thinking Willyne and I had just agreed to continue on for another year or more as church service missionaries working in the 12 step addiction recovery program.

Of course, I was put right to work, and just a few hours after being set apart, I spoke in La Verkin 3rd Ward on the topic of comparing our 2013 stake theme to the Beatitudes.  I had enough material for twenty minutes or so ... as it turns out I had about eight minutes.  If you are interested, click on the link and you can read the notes I prepared for the talk.  The actual talk was the portions of this I was inspired to give, skipping the rest to fit the time available.  As always, I believe the speaker got more out of this than anyone else :-)