You may wonder why a post with a picture of the church building. Well, I have been thinking just how much my life has revolved around this and other church buildings.
Of course I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all my life. The first building that I remember, of course, is the old Mapleton Ward building. I went to Primary and Sunday School there and later Mutual. I left for my mission from there and returned home there.
Of course I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all my life. The first building that I remember, of course, is the old Mapleton Ward building. I went to Primary and Sunday School there and later Mutual. I left for my mission from there and returned home there. There were different church buildings from my mission. I remember well the chapels in Curitiba and Santos. I also remember meeting in rented houses that, while not as nice as the church buildings did provide a place for a growing church to meet.
After I returned from my mission I remember attending church now and again at Franklin and at Whitney because my work schedule at Del Monte sometimes prevented me from attending my home ward during the summer months.
After Teri and I married we went to church in the Preston North Stake Center for a while and then in the 3rd/7th Ward building in Preston. When we moved to Burley we went to the Star Ward Building and even after we were changed into the Burley First Ward we continued to meet in that same building. One of the memories I have of that building is going to get the kids from Primary and standing in the hall waiting for them. The Primary was singing "Joseph Smith's First Prayer" (" O How Lovely was the Morning"). There I felt the spirit renew my testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith. We later moved into the city of Burley and attended church in a relatively new building there.
When we moved to Zillah the building in the picture accompanying this post is where we met and still do up to this day. I served as Elder's Quorum President here, and then bishop and then on the stake high council. Of course there are other buildings of the church which have influenced me too like the Logan temple where I went for the first time prior to serving my mission. There is the Ogden temple where Teri and I were married. The Boise Temple, the Provo Temple and the Columbia River Temple have also been important church buildings to me.
The church is not the buildings but they each one represent a period in my life that I can reflect upon and think how good God has been to me.
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Speaking of church buildings, when are you going to be in your new one?
Don't know. They have not made any announcement on it.
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