YW Temple/Pageant Activity

Our YW just had a big end-of-summer activity. We took the girls to the Bountiful Temple to do baptisms for the dead. We fed them pizza and then drove them up to Clarkston, Utah to watch the pageant, "Martin Harris: The Man Who Knew."

The pageant is held right next to the cemetery where Martin Harris is buried.

It is beautiful country and the nearly-full-moon in the sky provided a great backdrop for the play.

It was quite impressive when a bright light shone down on Joseph Smith in the grove of trees.

We got our girls home right before midnight. Hopefully they will remember what they saw and heard of Martin Harris's witnessing and testifying of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.

Quotes of the Week

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
-- Socrates

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The object of teaching is to enable those taught to get along without a teacher."
--Anonymous 

Little Helpers

Glen decided to fix the snow blower now before the snow season begins. The boy scout motto is coming into play: BE PREPARED.

He had two eager tool helpers right by his side.

Looks like Carson has caught onto Eli's favorite thing of pushing the edger all around the garage.

Job done, boys happy, all's well.

Dinner and a Play at Sundance

Here we go with another fun activity sponsored by G&K. We arrived at Sundance Resort and got shuttled up the mountain. Here are some of the G&K people.

We ate a BBQ dinner before the play.

We did a little investigating and found this trail that goes up and over the mountain. The sign by Glen's shoulder is enlarged below.

The sign suggests people take that trail as an alternate way of getting back to the parking lot. The sign tells the truth. It was a moderate hike if you wore correct walking shoes like Glen did. It was a strenuous hike if you had a big sore bump on the side of your foot and you wore not-so-great walking shoes like me.

The trail was very rocky and uneven. What a blessed sight to crest the top of the mountain and be able to see a parking lot down the other side of the mountain.

Such a beautiful place up on that mountain.

 We saw some different characters standing around.

Where were Jacob, Natalie and Brooke when they were asking for hula hoop experts for the pre-show contest?

Craig organized this outing for his sales team and their spouses and invited Glen and me to go along with them.

I am so glad we got to enjoy the evening in the great outdoors and see "Annie Get Your Gun."

Fun show, great play, and wonderful G&K employees.