https://australianmining.com.au/news/peter-meurs-quits-fmg-to-join-the-mormons/

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865651730/Meet-the-Churchs-new-General-Authorities.html?pg=all

http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/fortescues-meurs-scores-biggest-pay-package-20121010-27cut.html

I heard an interesting testimony last Sunday. (more…)

I found this article interesting in relation to many themes that come up at our website: Rising From The Ashes: Restoration Begins At LDS Ranch At Warm Springs

For example,

“In the past, life was a little different,” [Area Director of LDS Facilities Mark] Waite said as he noted evidence of old Eagle Scout projects of the past embedded in the infrastructure of the property. “You could come out and just put something in with whatever supplies had been donated for that purpose. We used to have every different PVC pipe that you can imagine running out here. People would just come out on a Saturday and run a water line as a project. We don’t do those kinds of things anymore.”

Nowadays the key improvements to the area will be done uniformly and up to the appropriate code using a qualified contractor, Waite said. Of course, that requires more time and it costs more money than using volunteer labor. So the entire area will not be able to be restored at once with the initial insurance settlement funding.

The facilities will be better constructed, but that reflects a narrow vision of their purpose.

new cannery

My stake president died yesterday. (more…)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190910-the-major-cities-being-designed-for-adults-not-families

The pioneers lived like heroes. We should buy the mythic narrative about them. Yet their greatness was not that they were always great. (more…)

A wild scientific paper.  Full of interest.

In passing, “as many as 18% of modern individuals exhibit PFS disability.”  I can hardly believe it.  In fact I don’t, until I deal with people . . .

We had an emotional and spiritual home sacrament meeting.  Perhaps the best we’ve had so far.  We sang hymns, we had a flute and piano duet of Come Come Ye Saints, we watched two tremendous sermons, and I closed by talking about the golden thread.  Love was there.

We discovered after that it was likely our last one, weekly services start next week.  It seemed fitting.

Here are the videos.

This one was made into a church video.  I’d say the actual talk is better.  One of the best sermons I’ve seen.

Elder Holland is also tremendous.  Watch this talk for Pioneer Day.

Read the Basilisk at your earliest convenience. You should not read it as a horror story.

Don’t give up because of the second letter. Read it until the end. Ask yourself what would possess a woman to write like that?

Handgun people debate caliber, grip, aim, ammunition costs. But they all agree that the best gun is the one you will take with you.

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This systemic discrimination against toffs, boulevardiers, trust fund boys, and other young men who are more ornamental than productive has roused a sleeping giant, viz, the Drones Club. We are taking to the streets to have a stiff word with the management of this bally concern. We will be heard or we will give them what-for, I dare say!

Right ho, then. Let all willing to take a stand in favor of spats, espeglierie and the culinary standards to which we have become accustomed take aforesaid stand. No gelato, no peas!

Progeny: Ooh! If I named my son Saxon, then I could call his dog, ‘hey, you dog of a Saxon!’
Progenitor: Or you could call your son Wirthla. ‘Come here, Wirthla’s dog!”
Progeny [giggling through the pain]: I don’t think you are OK, dad.

It was the late Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton who was led to observe that the deranged suffer not from a deficit of reason but from a deficit of everything else. On this, as in other matters, sir, I find him an invaluable guide.

Thank you, sir.

Then the voice spoke from the high mountain, commanding, “Build!”

And so they built. (more…)

Mr. Wooster is notable for his eleemosynary impulse. He may also have felt that some recent service I had occasion to render on his behalf deserved some expression of thanks. In consequence Mr. Wooster has kindly agreed to donate his Rex Kwan-Do ensemble to the deserving poor.