The Meservy Blog

Jerusalem the Movie

2011-11-09T22:08:00.002-07:00

Jerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D from JerusalemTheMovie on Vimeo.

Join the production : http://jerusalemthemovie.com

After a year of research and preparation, the giant screen film JERUSALEM advanced into production with an unprecedented aerial shoot throughout Israel and the West Bank. Scheduled for worldwide release in 2013, the film will take audiences on a spectacular tour of the Holy Land and the city once believed to lie at the center of the world.

Jerusalem | An Arcane/Cosmic Picture Film

Quotes -- Robert Muller

2011-11-08T11:40:00.002-07:00

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."
~~ Dr. Robert Muller

Quote -- Clayton Christensen

2011-11-03T13:34:00.001-06:00

"I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people." ~~ Clayton Christensen

Success by John Wooden

2011-10-24T12:31:00.001-06:00

I coined my own definition of success. Which is: peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable. I believe that's true. If you make the effort to to the best of which you're capable, try and improve the situation that exists for you, I think that's success. ~~ John Wooden

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2011-09-09T10:16:00.001-06:00

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. ~~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- Edison

2011-08-03T10:08:00.001-06:00

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
~~ Thomas Edison

Quote -- Edison

2011-08-03T10:06:00.000-06:00

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ~~ Thomas Edison

Arlene Bean Meservy's Obituary

2011-01-20T13:52:00.005-07:00

Arlene Bean Meservy

1925 ~ 2011

Arlene Bean Meservy, 85, of Provo, Utah passed away January 16, 2011 after a battle with cancer. Arlene was born August 20, 1925 to Lloyd James Bean and Millie Birch in Teton, Idaho. Born in a remote farm area of Idaho, she grew up with a love for the out of doors and for being with her Dad. After high school, she received her Nursing degree and worked in Idaho and Utah. She served a 2-year mission to the Mexico/Guatemala area, where she and her companion were the first sister missionaries in Guatemala. After her mission, she began working at the BYU health clinic and was lined up for a blind date with Keith Meservy, who subsequently became her husband on December 27, 1951 in the Logan Temple. They moved to Baltimore the next year for Keith's post graduate education before returning to Provo, Utah, where they resided for the rest of their lives.

She had a love for genealogical work, gardening, her family and grandchildren, serving others, canning, homemade wheat bread, serving in the church, building a cabin for family fun, traveling to Israel with Keith for his BYU teaching assignments, BYU basketball and football, caring for others, working hard, and good friends. She was called to serve in numerous church callings and enjoyed them all. She was accepting of all and showed love and kindness unconditionally. Quoted from her life history: "My greatest happiness and personal fulfillment has come in the losing of myself in the service of my family, my fellowmen and the Lord."

She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Ralph Bean (brother), Karma Bean Cox (sister), Sally Oxborrow Meservy (daughter-in-law), Cameron Schaelling (grandson). Arlene is survived by Wanda Bean Miller, Ruth Bean Hansen, Karen Bean Searle, Linda Bean Butler, Paul Bean, and her children: Mike (Lynn) Meservy, Marcia (Dan) Wheeler, Mark (Jileen) Meservy and Lynda (Greg) Schaelling; 19 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday January 22, 2011, beginning at 11:00 a.m. at the Pleasant View 3rd Ward Chapel, located at 650 East Stadium Avenue, Provo, UT. Interment will be at the Provo City Cemetery.

Viewings will be held January 21, 2011 at the funeral location, from 6:00-8:00 p.m., and from 9:30-10:45 a.m. the morning of the funeral. In lieu of flower please make a donation to the Perpetual Education Fund at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 E. North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84150.

Arlene Bean Meservy Tribute from Michael Meservy on Vimeo.

Quote -- Spencer W. Kimball

2010-11-01T12:25:00.001-06:00

"Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use. These opportunities lie all around us. Whatever the size of our present circle of effective influence, if we were to improve our performance even a little bit, that circle would be enlarged. There are many individuals waiting to be touched and loved if we care enough to improve in our performance."

"We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters. If our sample of humanity seems unglamorous or so very small, we need to remember the parable Jesus gave us in which he reminded us that greatness is not always a matter of size or scale, but of the quality of one’s life. If we do well with our talents and with the opportunities around us, this will not go unnoticed by God. And to those who do well with the opportunities given them, even more will be given!"

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2010-09-30T11:14:00.001-06:00

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ~~Albert Einstein

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2010-09-24T09:59:00.002-06:00

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ~~Albert Einstein

Forgiveness

2010-08-01T00:52:00.004-06:00

A Great Video on FORGIVENESS

Mike and Lynn ~~ Before the Wedding

2010-06-26T12:54:00.002-06:00

LYNN and MIKE Past 3 1/2 Years from Michael Meservy on Vimeo.

1972 Study Abroad Pictures

2010-06-05T13:10:00.006-06:00

Near Mt. Vesuvius Lava Flow
Italy

Dead Sea
Israel

Near Lebanon Border
Israel

Northern Israel

Removing Wheat Chaff
Israel

Ceasarea
Israel

Glass Blowing
Israel

Lookout Tower
Israel

Nile River
Eygpt

Mike Engaged to Lynn Boyakin

2010-05-26T19:43:00.000-06:00

Lynn Boyakin -- The Last Three Years 2009 from Michael Meservy on Vimeo.

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2010-05-11T10:55:00.001-06:00

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. ~~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- Bruce R. McConkie

2010-04-27T11:53:00.003-06:00

"Pure religion is a thing of the Spirit and not of the intellect alone, and its truths must be carried into the hearts of hearers by the power of the Spirit, otherwise the human soul is not changed . . . and the seeker after salvation does not become alive in Christ"

Bruce R. McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 3 vols. [1966-73], 2:318

The Growth Required to Return Home

2010-03-19T23:33:00.004-06:00

“One’s life . . . cannot be both faith-filled and stress-free.”
“Therefore, how can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, ‘Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!’
“Real faith . . is required to endure this necessary but painful developmental process.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell (1926-2004) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “Lest Ye Be Wearied and Faint in Your Minds,” Ensign, May 1951 pg 88,90.

Sarah's Birthday 2010

2010-03-15T22:12:00.003-06:00

Today was Sarah's birthday. This evening Brighton and Cara took her shopping for some clothes and after the shopping trip the family got together for some build your own crepes. A Sarah specialty and favorite. Desert consisted of Dad cooked brownie mix topped with candles and powdered sugar by Brighton. The candles were not edible but looked good while lit. Served with vanilla ice cream.

A fun evening was had by ALL

Brownies and Candles

Alexa, Sarah and Kaylee

Out go the candles
Alexa, Sarah, Kaylee and McKenzie

Sarah with her #1 and ONLY Dad

Jeff and Sadie

Brighton and Cara
with Jeff and Sadie in background

Alexa

McKenzie

Sarah and Kaylee

Quote - Douglas Adams

2009-10-07T14:11:00.002-06:00

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams

Great Music VIDEO

2009-09-22T00:18:00.000-06:00

Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Quote -- Mark Twain

2009-07-28T10:46:00.002-06:00

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
~~ Mark Twain

Quote -- Thomas Jefferson

2009-07-07T00:28:00.003-06:00

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
~~ Thomas Jefferson

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2009-06-20T13:19:00.001-06:00

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
~~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- Henry David Thoreau

2009-06-11T09:59:00.001-06:00

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2009-06-09T22:17:00.001-06:00

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.
~Albert Einstein

Keith Meservy Tribute

2009-06-03T17:17:00.003-06:00

Quote -- Aristotle

2009-05-19T09:11:00.003-06:00

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event -- it is a habit." -- Aristotle

Quote -- Arnold Toynbee

2009-05-06T12:52:00.004-06:00

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee

Quote -- Bill Cosby

2009-05-03T20:14:00.001-06:00

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~~Bill Cosby

Quote -- Will Rogers

2009-05-03T17:26:00.002-06:00

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers

BRIGHTON's GRADUATION

2009-05-02T18:03:00.002-06:00

An AMAZING Casket

2009-05-01T23:30:00.000-06:00

First the VIEW
where the casket will be buried . . . .
the mountains are the Tetons.

The side with the name carved. . .
Larry Wilde

This is the back side but still very beautiful

This casket was done by the son of Larry Wilde who passed away this last week on the first anniversary of the passing of my father. . . Larry had fought the battle with cancer for the last year and was supposed to go a trip to Europe with his wife before his condition worsened recently. His funeral was a beautiful tribute to a wonderful, loved man. He leaves behind his wife (my cousin) and two wonderful sons. One is currently serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . .

Quote -- Peter McWilliams

2009-04-27T09:44:00.001-06:00

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
~ Peter McWilliams

Quote -- Robert Heinlein

2009-04-21T18:20:00.002-06:00

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
~ Robert Heinlein

Night at WICKED

2009-04-10T23:30:00.008-06:00

On the way to eat at P.F. Changs before the show.

Guess where this is???

Does the chopsticks give it away?

Cara and Brighton
Brighton demonstrates her use of chopsticks

Sarah and Alyssa
Don't they look like they enjoy using chopsticks?

Ready for the show. . .
Sarah and Alyssa

Show Curtain ~~ sorry they would not let me take pictures of the show.

Dad, Cara and Brighton

Looking the other way
Cara, Brighton, Alyssa, Sarah

After the show outside of Capital Theatre
Cara is taking the picture

After the show at Sconecutter
as it was the only ice cream place
we could find open. . . .

Brighton's USU Interior Design Exhibit

2009-04-10T22:59:00.007-06:00

Brighton's Exhibit

Debra and Brighton

Brighton

Debra and Brighton

Dad and Brighton

Jaynie, Brighton, Wendy

Exhibit

Brighton Designed Bar
at Student Center

Kaylee on the run. . . . .

Dinner after the Exhibit at the Bluebird Inn, Logan, UT
Sarah and I

Quotes -- Abraham Lincoln

2009-04-09T15:33:00.002-06:00

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2009-04-07T09:17:00.001-06:00

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- Mhatma Gandhi

2009-03-04T11:40:00.000-07:00

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Quote -- Peter Drucker

2009-03-01T10:39:00.000-07:00

"Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future."
~ Peter Drucker

The WAVE in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona

2009-01-16T00:11:00.004-07:00

Love the Texture here. . . .

The WAVE

Tyler and I in The WAVE
(. . . . and I am not that much taller than Tyler)

Oxborrow and Roper Family Christmas Party

2008-12-14T17:35:00.001-07:00

Quite a Group. . . Can't believe I fit everyone in my house

More of the group

Another angle

Does the group ever quit.

Little after Party Fun

Salt Lake Temple with FRESH snow

2008-12-13T17:12:00.002-07:00

Katie Faught Wedding at SL Temple

2008-12-13T17:06:00.000-07:00

Quote -- James Baldwin

2008-11-05T19:28:00.002-07:00

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
~ James Baldwin

Nov 1 -- Another year has passed

2008-11-01T22:51:00.012-06:00

Girls on their way to the temple

Flowers on temple square

Papa John's Pizza PARTY

A little after pizza party homework

Dog gets to relax too I guess

Halloween Night

2008-10-31T22:30:00.008-06:00

Alexa, McKenzie, Sarah, and happy Kaylee

Pumpkin Night at the Rays

2008-10-30T22:13:00.001-06:00

McKenzie and Alexa

McKenzie, Grandpa and Alexa

Kaylee lets Grandpa read to her

Carved Pumpkins
Gpa is Lower Left and Sarah is Lower Right

Grandpa's and it looks better with a candle inside

Sarah's

Quote -- Galileo Galilei

2008-10-21T15:32:00.002-06:00

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
~ Galileo Galilei

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2008-09-21T01:04:00.002-06:00

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
~~ Albert Einstein

Quotes -- Gordon B. Hinckley

2008-09-20T11:22:00.000-06:00

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than education, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company - a church - a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the fact that people will act a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable, the only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you--we are in charge of our attitudes."

~~ President Gordon B. Hinckley

Quote -- John Taylor

2008-09-19T11:22:00.007-06:00

"When we live our religion, when we walk according to the light of the Spirit of God, when we purge ourselves [of] impurity and corruption, and the sweet whispering of the Spirit of the Lord pours intelligence into our bosoms, broods over us, causing peace and joy to be with us, we have then, more or less, a faint glimpse of those things that are laid up for the faithful, and it is then we feel as though we and all that we have are in the hands of the Lord and that we are ready to offer ourselves [as] a sacrifice for the accomplishment of his purposes upon the earth."
~~John Taylor, in Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor [2001], 151

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2008-09-19T11:22:00.001-06:00

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
~~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- Lewis H. Lapham

2008-09-17T10:08:00.001-06:00

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
~~ Lewis H. Lapham

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2008-09-15T22:52:00.001-06:00

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
~~ Albert Einstein

Dancing MATT

2008-09-14T12:35:00.000-06:00

Make sure you go to YouTube and watch this in HD. You can even go full screen and it looks great. Lots of fun places to go in just under 4 years. . . Hopefully Matt had someone funding his adventure.

Quote -- Trials and Tribulation

2008-09-09T22:30:00.001-06:00

"Our trials can either end up hardening our heart or humbling us. How true the saying that suffering in life is inevitable, but misery is of our own making. In other words, because of the plan that we all agreed upon in the premortal life, we are going to suffer, whether we want to or not. However, if you can find how to suffer that tribulation in the Redeemer's name, you will bear it well and perhaps even do it with an understanding, happy heart."
~~Elder Gene R. Cook, "BYU Devotional", February 1, 2005

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2008-09-07T03:09:00.003-06:00

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2008-09-05T13:25:00.001-06:00

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
~ Albert Einstein

Quotes -- Bertrand Russell

2008-09-04T18:10:00.006-06:00

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
~ Bertrand Russell

Quote -- Mary Pickford

2008-09-04T18:03:00.005-06:00

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~ Mary Pickford

Brighton moves back to USU

2008-08-23T19:00:00.000-06:00

Quote -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2008-08-14T10:34:00.004-06:00

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2008-07-31T01:05:00.002-06:00

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~ Albert Einstein

Lund for the 24th -- Part One

2008-07-26T21:00:00.001-06:00

Artistic Tree in the Desert
I80 and close to the Bonneville Salt Flats

Parade Preparations

Berry demonstrates his skill at
riding a unicycle

Parade watchers

Parade Begins

Lund Mustangs
Cheerleaders and Football Players

Griffin Tractor 1

Griffin Tractor 2

Griffin Tractor 3

Captain Jack impersonator

Lund for the 24th -- Part Two

2008-07-26T20:00:00.001-06:00

Swimming at Hot Creek

Alyssa Gets Taken Down
(and she didn't want to go swimming)

Sarah, Maddie, Caitlin

At the RODEO

Beautiful SUNSET after Rodeo

Our Gracious Hosts
Jeanne and Gilbert

Snake River Trip -- Day Three

2008-07-15T22:00:00.002-06:00

Snake River Trip -- Day Two (Part 1)

2008-07-14T21:00:00.003-06:00

Snake River Trip -- Day Two (Part 2)

2008-07-14T20:00:00.010-06:00

Snake River Trip -- Day One

2008-07-13T22:00:00.004-06:00

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2008-06-27T00:12:00.001-06:00

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Quote -- Dave Barry

2008-06-05T14:25:00.001-06:00

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
~ Dave Barry

Alyssa Seminary Graduation 2008

2008-06-02T12:34:00.003-06:00

Tonight Alyssa graduated from seminary which she has been attending all through high school. Dad is so proud of her. She is so goal oriented and loves to fine ways to be of service to others. Whether it is singing on Sunday nights at a care facility, weekly tutoring of refugee children, or working on a garden project that raises food for people in need, she loves to find ways to help others. Tuesday we get to attend her high school graduation. Another of those rights of passage for a father. Another of my precious children about to leave the nest. . . . . .

Merrill Roper, Geri Roper,
Arlene, Mike, Alyssa, Tyler and Sarah Meservy

Me and my daughter

Lynn, Mike and Alyssa
You will have to figure out what was happening
to Alyssa to create this face.

Quote -- Lao Tse

2008-05-30T16:28:00.001-06:00

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
~ Lao Tse

Brighton departs for the land Down UNDER!!!

2008-05-21T22:13:00.006-06:00

These pictures are of the departure of my daughter for an interior design internship for the summer. . . .

Cars parked and Brighton is ready
to be on her way. . . . .

Let's get the bags weighed!

Bag weighs in at 51.5 lbs. Just a bit
over the limit but still okay.

All checked in and ready for the departing
hugs and kisses from parents

Dad Meservy has everyone go on a detour
so that he can get a picture on the escalator!!!

The Springers

Wendy and Brighton

Brighton and Dad

Into the TSA line

Just before they enter TSA security

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2008-05-16T00:25:00.002-06:00

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- John Wayne

2008-05-13T17:01:00.001-06:00

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne

Dallin -- Pictures from China

2008-05-13T08:31:00.002-06:00

Quote -- Eleanor Roosevelt

2008-05-10T02:43:00.000-06:00

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote -- Albert Einstein

2008-05-07T01:18:00.003-06:00

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree...
~ Albert Einstein

My Dad's Obituary written by himself

2008-04-29T08:00:00.003-06:00

Keith H. Meservy
1924 - 2008

Keith Hansen Meservy, nudged by a determined case of Acute Leukemia has changed his address from this world to the next on April 27, 2008 . He was born in 1924 to Edward Southwick Meservy and Lucille Hansen. These extended the twin blessings of living in a choice free land where he was nourished and sustained by the fullness of the Gospel.

Arlene Bean, a blind date from Idaho (Arma Taylor met Arlene and told him: “Keith, I’ve found just the girl for you..” And she was right.) Soon enough she found a permanent place in his heart and their forever marriage took place in 1951 at the Logan temple. Four wonderful children and four wonderful companions have produced twenty grand children and three great-grandchildren) All of whom have brought profound joy to their hearts: Mike (Sally Oxborrow, dec.), Marcia (Dan Wheeler, the fisherman), Mark (Jileen Crenshaw,) and Lynda (Greg Schaelling).

Two sisters: out of five (Maurine (Jeston Jacobson, dec.] and Norma [Ronald Riding] preceded him in death. Three others remain: Ardis (Revo Rowley, dec.), Trudy (John Nickerson), and Naomi (John Ridimg).

Graduation from Provo High School in 1943 led to army in during WWII, followed by a mission to the Northern States in 1946-1948..This is where he learned to the meaning of love: love for people, love for the Gospel, love for the Scriptures and love for the opportunity to teach.

Studies at BYU and Johns Hopkins University prepared him academically to teach and he was hired by BYU to teach in the Ancient Scripture Dept. He loved his work and got up eagerly each morning to carry it out..Teaching at the Jerusalem Center was one of great fringe benefits he and his family were able to enjoy.

He loved life and reveled in living in this beautiful, marvelously endowed, magnificent, ever-changing world, especially the world that opens up from Utah Valley where canyon gateways open up magnificent mountain retreats that provided many happy hours camping, hiking, fishing, and hunting with his family.

He loved the Gospel and experienced great joy in serving in a variety of callings in the Church. There he discovered the joy that comes from working shoulder to shoulder with other good men and women while serving one’s fellow. men and women.

Now he is meeting those ancestors who left their comfortable homes in foreign lands to come to Zion. These forsook all that made their lives comfortable– their beloved countries, occupations, friends, associates and relatives and .made it possible for them and all their posterity to enjoy the fullness of the blessings that God in these last days is extending to his children. Their courageous decisions and faithfulness to their covenants they transmitted the gospel through five generations to him. Consequently he was born in this choice land under the influence of the gospel– both of which are blessings of incalculable value.

Special thanks to the many care givers especially over the last year and a half. But most of all he thanks his over-solicitousness wife whose sacrifices for him were overwhelming.

Funeral and viewings will be held at the Pleasant View 3rd Ward, 650 East Stadium Avenue, Provo, UT. Funeral is scheduled for May 1 at 11:00AM. Friends and family may visit on April 30 from 7:00 to 8:30pm and also May 1 between 9:30 and 11:00 AM. Interment will follow the funeral at the Provo City Cemetery. In leu of flowers a contributions may be made in Keith’s name to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Perpetual Education Fund.

The previous obituary was written by my dad and found on his computer. Of course with exception of updates to the dates, times and places. Space and cost constraints prohibited us from publishing this version in the news papers.

Click the Links below for newspaper version of obituaries. The newspaper versions also have a guest book feature for those that want to leave a condolence.

Niagara Falls

2008-04-25T21:51:00.003-06:00

My First girl friend
but does she look like she is happy
that I took her to Niagara Falls?

Brighton wins national design contest

2008-04-25T15:57:00.003-06:00

Brighton is an interior design student in her 3rd year at Utah State. She recently won a contest and the details can be found at:

Click here to see Brighton's Design

C.S. Lewis -- The Intolerable Compliment

2008-04-01T11:18:00.004-06:00

The Problem of Pain – The Intolerable Compliment
C.S. Lewis

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. Those Divine demands which sound to our natural ears most like those of a despot and least like those of a lover, in fact marshall us where we should want to go if we knew what we wanted. He demands our worship, our obedience, our prostration. Do we suppose that they can do Him any good, or fear like the chorus in Milton, that human irreverence can bring about “His glory’s diminution”? A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word “darkness” on the wall of his cell . . . .

We are bidden to “put on Christ,” to become like God. That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

(from Chapter 3)

Dallin Leaves for CHINA

2008-03-31T23:45:00.002-06:00

Meservy Siblings

2008-03-29T23:00:00.000-06:00

Marcia, Mike, Mom, Dad, Mark, Lynda

Brooke, Sarah, Katrina, Grandpa, Carly

Mom and Dad

Easter Sunday

2008-03-23T14:01:00.000-06:00

Dallin's Family Birthday Celebration

2008-03-09T22:00:00.003-06:00

Dallin and AlyssaGerman Chocolate
Birthday Cake

Alexa Blows out Candles

Dallin's Dog shows off
leaping skills

Visit to the Ray's

2008-01-27T23:05:00.001-07:00

There are lots of other pictures I should have posted first but didn't have the time but couldn't resist the opportunity to get these cute pictures up here. I do feel blessed to have such fun and cute grandkids and "in-law".

Alexa and McKenzie

Ready for bed. . . . .
Jeff and Kaylee
And can you believe I got a picture
without his tongue hanging out!!!
He did inform me that since this picture
made it to my blog I will get no other pictures
without the tongue out. . . .

Now a couple cute pictures of
Kaylee

Looks surprised at something.
I think it is the number of times the
flash kept going off.

Quote -- John Wooden

2008-01-22T12:52:00.000-07:00

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

-- John Wooden (Former Head Basketball Coach at UCLA)

Dallin -- Here I Lay

2008-01-12T23:05:00.000-07:00

Bad Apples -- Here I Lay
at Moe's Bar and Grill

Dallin -- Let Me Be Me

2008-01-12T23:03:00.000-07:00

Bad Apples -- Let Me Be Me
at Moe's Bar and Grill

Christmas Canon - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

2007-12-25T00:26:00.001-07:00

Haircuts on Christmas Eve

2007-12-24T12:32:00.000-07:00

Sarah's and Alyssa's Haircuts
2007

Sarah and Alyssa decided to cut enough hair to donate to Locks of Love. So each had at least 10 inches cut off of there hair.

Trip to Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Christmas Lights

2007-12-14T23:59:00.000-07:00

Inside Conference Center
Choir and Orchestra

Salt Lake City Temple

Quote -- Will Rogers

2007-12-10T16:59:00.000-07:00

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers

Sarah and Friends CAROLING

2007-12-07T22:45:00.000-07:00

Sarah organized some friends and went caroling tonight. It was snowing and they had a blast going to many of the homes in our neighborhood.

Janine, Amy, Ressa and Sarah

Sarah and Ressa

Ressa and Sarah in the Snow

Ressa, Sarah and Amy

Sarah Choir Concert

2007-12-06T22:45:00.000-07:00

Sarah comes down to the stage. . . .

Dad and Sarah
after the concert

Dad Birthday Party Video

2007-12-02T22:00:00.000-07:00

This is a video from a Sunday celebration of Dads 83rd birthday.