The Ranch

This year we all went to Florida for a vacation.  I got to take Jenn and the boys to a few of my old mission stomping grounds.  My favorite of those was The Ranch.  This pic by the ranch sign is the same pic I took close to 15 years ago with Elder Jeppson.  We went to church in Elsworth.  I had such a feeling of gratitude looking around at all of the faces that were still so familiar to me.  We ran into this boys mom at the ward and I told her I remember how excited her little boy was to be a missionary.  She said that he dreamed of being a missionary and always talked about it.  He is in Brazil now serving.

One of my heroes in Florida during my mission was Kent Cook.  He was the ward mission leader out at the Ranch.  Not long after I left, Bro Cook died in an accident driving home from a stake meeting.  This eagle was carved in that spot in his honor.