Every year around this time I get the itchin's to go camping. I feel tired of the city, of work, and of the dirty air. Last year we were able to enjoy some great hikes and overnight trips in the Uintah mountains. This year we hope to go even more and take our daughter Katie with us. My wife and I are excited to enjoy the fresh air and beautiful views with her. This picture is of Pittsburgh Lake, just below Devil's Castle.

A few thoughts...

Today I was able to take some information that George gave me about my genealogy and request records from the Church's History Department. It amazes me how easy it has become to research your family's past and connect it with History. I can only imagine what I will find when I can dedicate some serious time to family history and get good at it. For some reason I am just realizing how many different resources I have all around me, especially at work. On any given day I do work in the Family History Library, the Church History Archives, and pass through the Familysearch center at the JSMB. Time to take advantage.

Laban Morrill, my Great Great Great Grandfather and Mormon Pioneer.

Now, my brethren and sisters, the time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is a season to be strong. It is a time to move forward without hesitation, knowing well the meaning, the breadth, and the importance of our mission. It is a time to do what is right regardless of the consequences that might follow. It is a time to be found keeping the commandments. It is a season to reach out with kindness and love to those in distress and to those who are wandering in darkness and pain. It is a time to be considerate and good, decent and courteous toward one another in all of our relationships. In other words, to become more Christlike.

-Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley

Other evils there are that may come... Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

-Gandalf
The Return of the King

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