Latter-day Blog

I often say my prayers, but do I really pray? And do the wishes of my heart go with the words I say? I may as well kneel down and worship gods of stone As offer to the living God a prayer of words alone. A prayer uttered without faith, the Lord can never hear, [...]

We had a new Stake Patriarch called last Sunday. The previous patriarch had served for the past 30 years. The new patriarch bore his testimony and told the congregation that he had visited with the previous partriarch the night before. He said, “He gave me some good counsel I think I will find useful in [...]

Larry Richman wrote a recent post on his blog entitled “Why use the Internet?“. I highly encourage you to read his post. It brought back memories of my first exposure to the internet. I graduated in 1996. My senior year (1995) was the first time I ever got on the internet. After graduating, I worked [...]

Last Saturday my wife was making cake for a funeral in our ward. Our neighbor had died after a long battle with cancer. My wife tried to explain this to our 3 year old who is always by her side when she’s making cookies or cake. After the cake was in the oven we made [...]