What a beautiful place! By the time we left Perth, we were so tired and ready for a little respite before taking the long trip home. We...

On the first, we did our last session at the beautiful Perth Temple. We did our usual thing of praying for each one of our children and...

THE REST OF THE STORY: KIDNEY SURGURY: Wednesday, 1 May 2024 We met with the urologist yesterday. My latest kidney scan did confirm...

Well, we having been having FHE together for over 20 months. Cindy's part of the family. We started on Jacob in the Book of Mormon, for...

Not only did I finally see a kookaburra in the old gum tree, but . . . . . . . . . . . I saw two! We can moan about all our problems in...

In Australia, they don't call it February. It's just Feb, and for January, it's just Jan. Australians say they can't be bothered with...

Elder Kahmann turns 75! He can ski for free at Powder Mountain in Utah!!!!! This is his fun new shirt with Aboriginal artwork on it,...

ZONE CONFERENCE: DAY 2 Elder Smith, our housing guy who calls himself the grinch. Bethany Hussey beside him. Sister Smith asked ...

Janet: Part of my contribution to a portion of my mom and dad's large posterity. LEARNING LIFE LESSONS PLAYING TENNIS WITH THE...

In Australia it's spring in October, not fall like in Utah. Australian Flowers cut from a ladies yard in Albany. Can you believe this?...

STAKE CONFERENCES: The above idea was a top take away from a young man who spoke in stake conference. First time learning that. LOVED...

Spending 4 days with Riki Tukukino was epic! "It's all starting to click!" This month: Departing Missionary Seminar, 2 stake...

July has been filled with sorrow. We have witnessed life threatening despair in a missionary, disobedience and deception in several...

There is always beauty in hard situations. Our career initiative has officially taken off. We are connecting with all the returned...

Our wonderful Tech Elders! Elder Bennion, Elder Platt, Elder Mahaffey. They tape us giving talks for the far away branches and do many...

Our Mission Experience is incredible. It's heart warming to feel the power of God, witness miracles and change and grow on a daily...

The good news is I don’t think about our blog until the end of the month (i.e. to not detract from our work), but that’s also the bad...

Our beautiful grand daughter, Tacey Johnson, begins her mission! Oh, how lucky are the people of Chile. Miriam and Dane's little...

Following is content from an email I sent to a sister in our home ward back in Utah; she was preparing to speak on Emotional Resilience,...

A wonderful start to the month on the Feb. 1, 2023 doing 2 ER trainings with our young missionaries. We are getting to know these young...