2020 GRADUATION

I found this on the Alpine School Districts website: We are excited to celebrate over 5,500 seniors who are graduating this year. Schools will proceed with a celebration event for their graduating students. Each high school will communicate graduation plans to their senior class and their parents within the next couple of weeks. 

Memories of Ivan Day

I remember Ivan’s testimony he gave at the end of a lesson priesthood.  I don’t remember the lesson but his testimony left an impression on me.  It was simple, powerful, and heartfelt.   He talked about how life hasn’t been easy yet with the Lord’s help, we can endure.  It was at the low times that […]

Bishopric Message – April 2020

Wow, a lot has happened during the month of March, social distancing, homeschooling, limited physical contact with others, reduction of group gatherings.  We have never experienced these kinds of changes in our lifetime.  My sister was reading in our grandmother’s journal and she shared a passage with our family.  This passage was from when she […]

My 2020 Invitation to You: Share the Message of the Restoration of the Savior’s Gospel

By President Russell M. Nelson When I spoke during last October’s general conference, I designated 2020 as a bicentennial period commemorating 200 years since God the Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to Joseph Smith in a vision. That singular event in human history initiated the Restoration of the Lord’s gospel—an unfolding Restoration […]

Bishopric Message – March 2020

Highland 28th Ward Experience the Reward of Feeling Good by Doing Good We have heard the saying; “It takes a village to raise a child.” This is more evident in this time than in generations of the past.  In fact, today’s environment demands this evolution, yet we don’t have as much influence on how or […]

Bishopric Message – February 2020

Over the past few years, I have thought a lot about the social, educational, and spiritual development of my two teenagers. Most children struggle at some level with self-esteem, mild depression, feelings of disconnection, and loneliness. Kids today don’t have the same connection to others that we did when we were young. Computer games, computers […]