Las Vegas Trip -- Day Two (Part 1)

Sarah, Stacie and Alyssa
Grab a bite to eat before touring the Hoover Dam

Traffic getting close the dam
Security is very tight since 9/11

Stacie, Alyssa and Sarah
From the parking garage

Power generation turbines
Nevada Side of Dam

Stacie, Alyssa and Sarah
In tunnel in rock around the dam

Dad, Alyssa, and Sarah
Overlook from the visitors center

Stacie, Alyssa, and Sarah
Over look from the visitors center

Power generation at the base of the dam

HOOVER Dam

Another view of power generation stations below

I guess it's dangerous to climb on the wall at the dam

Sarah with water intake behind her

Hoover Dam
Plaques

Alyssa and Sarah
Rubbing the toes is supposed to bring you good luck

Alyssa and Sarah
At the souvenir shop by the dam

Las Vegas Trip -- Day Two (Part 2)

Las Vegas, Nevada Temple

Recently married couple poses in the background

Sunsetting after a visit to the temple grounds

At the Benihana
End of the flaming onion

At Benihana
Cook as he prepares the meal

Sarah, Stacie and Alyssa
After the meal

Sarah, Alyssa and Stacie
Walking out to watch the Bellagio Water show

At the Bellagio

Next pictures are all at the floral exibited in the
Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

Ceiling Flowers near registration checkin

Vegas version of the Eiffel Tower

Meservy Family Crest

Las Vegas Trip -- Day One

Hilton Vacation Club Hotel
We were on the 7th floor

On the way to the room

We completed the swim suit updates here

Dinner at the Outback

Bloomin' Onion

Outside the Mirage

Caesars Mall
(Store named after my daughter)

Must be SPRING as the trees are in bloom!!!!

Trees in front of my house. . . . today!

Israel 1972 BYU Semester Abroad Reunion (35th)

Group Picture
@ the end of the evening

Group Directors
(Keith Meservy & Lamar Berrett)

Lamar Berrett
Shares the story about preparing for the establishment
of the Jerusalem center and the research work he did to prove
that Mormons were in Israel before the State of Israel was formed.

The following are pictures as the group listen to stories about
life since our semester together.

Linnell's turn to share

Families Must Find Meaningful Time Together

"Families unite when they do meaningful things together. Children should work together under the leadership of parents. Common employment, even on a part-time basis, is valuable. So is a family garden. Common projects to help others are also desirable. Families may establish a perpetual missionary fund. They can research and write family histories and share them with others. They can organize family reunions. They can educate family members in the basic skills of living, including managing finances, maintaining property, and broadening their general education. The learning of languages is a useful preparation for missionary service and modern life. The teachers of these subjects can be parents or grandparents or other members of the extended family.

"Some may say, 'But we have no time for that.' As for time to do what is truly worthwhile, I suggest that many parents will find that they can turn their family on if they will turn their television off. . . .

"President David O. McKay taught:

" 'The home is the first and most effective place for children to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control; the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.' (Family Home Evening Manual 1968-69, p. iii.)"

Topics: home, children, teaching, parents

(Dallin H. Oaks, "Parental Leadership in the Family," Ensign, June 1985, 9)

Thought for the day. . . .

"The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct."

Confucius

A Prophet's Testimony of Joseph Smith

"Great was the Prophet Joseph Smith's vision. It encompassed all the peoples of mankind, wherever they live, and all generations who have walked the earth and passed on. How can anyone, past or present, speak against him except out of ignorance? They have not tasted of his words, they have not pondered about him, nor prayed about him. As one who has done these things, I add my own words of testimony that he was and is a prophet of God, raised up as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty to usher in a new and final gospel dispensation."

Topic: Joseph Smith

(Gordon B. Hinckley, "Praise to the Man," Ensign, Aug. 1983, 6)

Tuesday at Carthage and Nauvoo

Carthage Jail from the back
Upper window is where Joseph Smith fell from
as he was shot with well below.

Dallin and I by statue of
Joseph and Hyrum Smith
who were martyred while being held in the Carthage Jail
June 27, 1938

Statues in NAUVOO
Outside the visitors center

Dallin recreates a picture we have of
him at 2 years of age

Me standing in front of the
Nauvoo Temple

Statue of Joseph and Hyrum
as they left town to surrender at to carthage.

This is where we ate before leaving town
Was a little smokey inside and burgers were a little small.

Dallin chows down