Sacrament Meeting Talk – Ministering to Future Members

Here's my first talk as a High Councilman, given August 19 2018 in the Ladera Ward, Los Lunas Stake, New Mexico. The topic we have been assigned to speak about this month is “ministering to future members”. What comes to your mind when I say that? (ministering to future members). Why would the stake presidency …

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Elmo, the dog

We have a man in our ward (Paul Fredrickson) who's been in the hospital since February. I didn't realize until late July that he had a dog that's been staying at his house alone all this time. I got a copy of his house key and went in to check on the dog's food and …

Susan’s Wheat Art Masterpiece

Susan has artistic talents, but has had little opportunity to express them. A few weeks ago, she saw some artwork hanging on the wall at our doctor's office and said without hesitating, "I can make that". It was primarily made of weaved wheat and some jewelry, and looked very difficult to me. After doing some research …

Michael receives a job offer

I got some good news from Michael yesterday. He received an offer from a company in Provo, Utah called Zefr. The starting salary is $62,000 a year which sounds really excellent to me (I was offered $15,500/yr upon graduation from college in 1975 as a Mechanical Engineer), although he's a little disappointed because he knows people …

My birthday and our fun Friday

Thursday was my birthday. I received text greetings from Andrew, Michael, Emily, my siblings, and even Kirk Lindstrom, and also plenty of Facebook greetings.  Doug was the only one who called me -- at least so far. It's pretty difficult for Susan to do anything without my knowledge so she was looking for an opportunity …

On having enemies

One of my children recently pointed out to me that there must be something wrong with me because more than one of my family members dislikes me. Yes, bad people do have enemies, but so do good people. In fact, many of the greatest people the world has ever known had plenty of enemies -- Martin …

Susan’s Spiritual Experiences

I am truly honored to be married to Susan. She has been blessed with some amazing spiritual experiences, and I have been blessed to learn about them. I have asked her repeatedly to write down some of her experiences for the sake of posterity, and, although she has done some of that, she's reluctant, partly …