Hegsted Mission

  18-September-2022-Sunday: After watching stake conference via Zoom, we went to the site to work a 12 to 4 shift.  However it was so busy we stayed until 5.  We had another amazing day with the number of people who came through the site.  When we arrived at noon, there had not been a soul there, but that soon changed. It seemed like it was Utah day at the site as many people had come from Utah.  I took through a group of 6 young men from Cedar City, Utah.  All work construction and wanted to take a roadtrip and considered  both Florida's and New England.  They were amazing young men.  I forget the energy that youth have. I took them to the foundations and they were out taking pictures before I could stop the cart.  They had been to the Brigham Young birthplace already.  Somewhere, someone has taught these young men well. As people continued to come in, we had a time when all the rooms were filled with people and two families showed...

  11-September-20222 Sunday: Oh what a day!  We first drove to Rutland to attend the branch there.  We accepted the callings President Shelton wanted to have us fill after talking with President Ewer.  It is so hard to staff a small branch where people are so spread out.  I feel for him.  We received a ward list by calling and it is amazing how many callings are not filled.  It is obvious we are not taking away opportunities from branch members.  I need to send him a list of Sundays I can teach.  However next week is Stake Conference so we have time. We started our shift at 2 pm.  It had been slow according to President Ewer, but it did not remain so.  There were times when we had 4 or 5 different groups and it became difficult to keep people separated.  Then at 4 pm, just as it started to slow down, we noticed a tour bus pulling in.  We had not heard from them, but as it is with the Lord's work it fit in nicely with the d...

   4-September-2022 Sunday: Because we opened the site at 11 am, we attended the S. Royalton ward today and enjoyed their fast and testimony meeting as well as Sunday school, before leaving a few minutes early to open the site by 11 am.  I sincerely believed that we would have a slow day, but by 11:03, we had three different groups waiting for tours with a fourth group coming shortly thereafter and it remained busy throughout the day. Dede combined two groups of members and I took two young men who did not appear to be members on a separate tour.  As we became acquainted I learned that they are both from Croatia and both members of the Community of Christ, probably the only two members in Croatia.  One had formerly been a member of our church but separated from it.  We could agree upon Joseph being a prophet of God and so we did the tour based on our commonality rather than our differences.  They were both so interested in the birthplace site and took ...

28-August-2022 Sunday We made our Sunday trip over to Rutland to attend the branch there.  Branch President Shelton has an Idaho area code.  We found out that his sister (Tracy) is married to Craig Haggler (Son of Gary Hagler of Pocatello) and Craig is Eric's boss and lives in Denver.  The world is a very small place in the gospel.  Sister and President Shelton were the Sacrament Meeting speakers and did a great job.   I taught the Elders' quorum lesson.  We had a lively discussion on Elder Bendar's talk "We Heeded them Not."  But I had to leave at 11:45 so we could get back to the site and be ready to help with the scheduled bus.  Lucky for us the bus arrived moments before us, so we were in great shape.  The tour guide was Carl Anderson, Lynne Lockhart's uncle and known as Mr. Kirtland.  Some years back we went with Lynne and stayed in Joyce and Carl's home while he showed us Kirtland.  He thinks we walk on water because we helped...