Eagle Scouts

On Sunday we attended an Eagle Court of honor for Joseph Joslin. Joseph is one of Jeff’s young men.


Jeff has been blessed to have 5 boys receive their Eagle Scout awards this year, including our son Keldon.


Jeff also attended and completed Woodbadge training along with other men in his presidency, Derek Hatch, Dave Godemann, and Brett Hamblin. Woodbadge is the highest training you can receive in the Boy Scouts.

I have witnessed personally the changes and the impact this program has on young men. I know there are allot of dissenters of the program, but I question whether they truly understand and have committed to learning it. I say this, because I can’t understand how anyone would disagree with this program if they truly understood its purpose. It has been my experience that people that have had a bad experience with Boy Scouts is because they had a leader who was improperly trained, not trained at all, or disillusioned going into the program. Anyway there’s my soapbox, but I am really pleased with my scouts and the work that they continue to do to get these prestigious awards.

Tubing Trip

We had the young men over to our house last Wednesday to air up the tubes for a trip to the Salt River this last Saturday.


It worked out that Brother Haws, Brother Hatch, Brother Godemann, Brother Barrett, and Brother Snow did all of the airing, while the young men "tested" them out in the pool. They all had a good time swimming and eating pizza.


The tubing trip was fun, and I was able to go this time. There wasn't enough Young Women's leaders that could go, so I was asked if I could go to represent the Young Women. I was really happy to go, and had a good time. The young men and young women make this an annual activity, because it is so fun. They always go early in the morning to avoid the riff raff that comes later in the day to drink and are generally immodest. Besides there is so much wildlife you get to see when you go early in the morning. We saw two herds of wild horses that came down to drink in the river. I have never seen wild horses, so it was a new experience for me as well as many that were with us. There is tons of big fish that would swim and jump very close. I wasn't sure if I like that, but I soon got used to it. Bishop Hale navigated his kayak to help all those that strayed out of the currents, and help keep everyone safe. I think everyone had a fun time, and I would love to go again.