Monthly Archives: October 2010

October 7th: Shopping Online

October 14, 2010 in Missions by michael
Probably because I’ve had to stay close to home to help out with the activities at the Scotshaven Home for Invalid Tennants (and Day Care Center) I’ve found great happiness in buying things over the internet.  And the part I really love is when what we ordered actually arrives at the house, yea, even at [...]

October 6th: A scholarship

October 14, 2010 in Missions by michael
Talk about a M2B:) moment – I got to meet with my friends at UVU to discuss the parameters for a scholarship we’re creating for some terrific student in the college of humanities and social sciences.  The reason I was invited to this gathering is because the funding for this scholarship will come from dollars [...]

October 5th: The Interview

October 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
I was interviewed today.  Utah Valley Magazine has been around ten years and they asked if they could do an article on me for the November/December edition.  The writer was kind enough to come up to Scotshaven to do the interview and as I reflect on our time together I realize something about myself.  I [...]

October 4th: Postponing

October 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
Being the caregivers for two sets of aging parents requires some postponing of personal agendas.  I’m happy today that I’m learning to let go of my obsession with checking off the things I have on my To Do list and responding to the needs of those I love when they aren’t on the list. I found [...]

October 3rd: Jammy Church

October 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
This isn’t meant to be irreverent, but I love what I call “jammy church”.  Every six months I get to spend Sunday morning listening to church in my jammies.  The Tabernacle choir sounds spectacular coming out of my sound system and the speakers in High Definition are so real you could almost touch them, right [...]

October 2nd: The New Book

October 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
At exactly 3:56pm at the Downtown Deseret Book flagship store I saw my new illustrated children’s book: The Forgotten Carols sequel of sorts titled A Christmas Miracle of Isaac and Eliza.  IT’S GORGEOUS!!!  Hopefully it will become a holiday favorite with parents and children EVERYWHERE becoming as yummy as hot chocolate with a hint of cinnamon [...]

October 1st: Go Aggies

October 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
I watched the Aggies of Utah State beat the Cougars of BYU tonight.  The announcers repeated, often, that the last time the Aggies bested the Cougars in football was in 1993.   Tonight they were triumphant and I loved watching the fans who’d gone down to defeat  for years and years finally have their moment [...]

September 30th: Shalom

October 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
Tonight I relived a very precious part of my life.  My friend Daniel Rona asked me to talk about my connection to Israel and the writing of the oratorio THE GARDEN to the group B’nai Shalom.  The Thursday before General Conference every years  this group gets together and listens to various speakers with different connections [...]

September 29th: Lessons learned

October 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
I was invited to speak/sing tonight at the  Wednesday Night Forum at the Salt Lake Institute in Sandy Utah.  The program took some twists and turns that I hadn’t anticipated and the result was a connection with the congregation that was very meaningful to me.  I think I spent more time talking to people AFTER [...]

September 28th: So that’s where that’s been

October 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
The miracle of the day that midst all my feng shui-ing I found some stuff that I’ve missed, and now I know where it’s been…and where it’s gone: to the trash!  I’m so proud of myself for being able to just “let it go”.