After Mission New Blog Link

This is part of Ogden Valley as looking down from the North Ogden Divide.  People want to know where I live, so here is what it looks like in the spring.  If you want to see fall colors, you'll have to visit my new blog site.

Since the mission is ended and pictures are posted of our trip at the end of our mission, I shall keep the link to both my blogs for anyone wanting to catch up on pictures or posts, but it is time to move on to another mission--that of being a Church service missionary!  I will be a member of the lds.org response team and will also be taking photos of  people doing gospel oriented activities to submit for files where they can be used for Church publications.  Anyone who lives in my area and would like me to visit them and photograph them individually, or as a family, doing Family Home Evening, studying scriptures, doing service projects, or anything creative related to LDS living, call me to make an appointment.

My other big project is to do my family history and temple work for family members.  That should really keep me busy.  In light of all these plans, I do not know how the blogging will go, but I hope to be able to continue to post photos for other's enjoyment, as well as share uplifting things that happen in my life, or great stories and quotes that are inspirational.  We shall see what the future unfolds.

Thank you for following my blog to those of you who found something in it worthwhile.  I hope it enriched your life in some way.  There have been over 16,604 visits from 95 countries these past 21 months to date.  I feel like there may be friends out there in the world I've never met.  Some of them accidentally found the site and it wasn't what they wanted, but maybe someone actually learned about Jesus Christ for the first time, or found the ChurchofJesusChrist.org link and was able to dispell some of the myths about "Mormons."  We actually don't like to be called Mormons anymore because it was just a nickname given The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and it was often used in a derogatory way.  The term "Mormon" originated from the publishing of the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ.  It is a companion scripture with the Bible and it witnesses that Jesus Christ also visited the Americas after his resurrection.  

Through revelation, Jesus Christ has said the name of His restored Church is to be The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  The early saints during the time of Jesus and the apostles was also called by His name.  His Church is restored in these latter-days, hense the add-on.  We are latter-day saints.  We are not better than anyone else just because we are called "saints."  Saints referred to in the Bible have always been the followers of Jesus Christ. Scripturally speaking, the "saints" are the body of Christ, Christians, the church.

Maybe, because of the blog, someone has been inspired to serve a mission, or even just visit the beautiful UK and learn of the wonderful people there.  My imagination has no bounds and probably a lot of false hopes, but it was fun to do it and we now have a record of our fantastic mission adventure in England!  That is worth something to us at least and that is probably what matters most in the long run.

If even one soul was reached and found Jesus Christ, how great will be our joy.

Visit me on my post-mission blog site.
happiness-faith-hope.blogspot.com

Countries (and areas within countries) that visited the mission blog: (my apologies to any country I spell incorrectly as I haven't even heard of some of them before and I regret my ignorance on geography, since some of the countries came into being when I was no longer educated on the changes--it has been a good opportunity to learn more about the world).

Afghanistan   Argentina   Armenia   Australia   Austria   Bahrain   Belarus   Bermuda   Bolivia

Bosnia & Herzegovina   Botswana   Brazil   Bulgaria   Canada   Chile   China   Columbia   Croatia   Cuba

Cyprus   Czech Republic   Denmark   Dominica   Egypt   El Salvador   England   Estonia   Ecuador

Finland   France   French Guiana   French Polynesia   Georgia   Germany   Greece   Guam   Hong Kong

Hungary   Iceland   India   Indonesia   Iran   Ireland   Isle of Man  Israel   Italy   Japan   Jersey   Jordan

Kazakhstan   Latvia   Lebanon   Lithuania   Libia   Malaysia   Malta   Mexico   Moldova   Morocco

Netherlands   New Zealand   Northern Ireland   Norway   Pakistan   Peru   Philippines   Poland   Portugal

Puerto Rico   Romania   Russia   Saudi Arabia   Scotland   Serbia   Slovakia   Slovenia   South Africa

South Korea   Spain   Sri Lanka   Sweden   Switzerland   Taiwan   Thailand   Trinidad   Turkey   Ukraine

Uruguay   United Arab Emirates   United Kingdom   United States   Uzbekistan   Vietnam   Wales Zimbabwe

If anyone has any question about the gospel penetrating every continent and visiting every shore, it is surely happening.  The whole world WILL know about Jesus Christ.