Reflecting on blessings...

Call it dumb luck. Call it providence. How a kid from a western Colorado ends up working the candy counter in the BYU Bookstore, meets Mark Crockett, and a year later is an Associate Vice President for BYUSA - the Student Government. Serving with the likes of Charlie Freedman, Kim Slothower and Dale Benson - I stood on their shoulders in all that I did and anything I accomplished was because someone believed I could, when I quite clearly, on my own, was unqualified.

I learned so much about potential, budgets, service, sacrifice, love, God, people.



Many of these people shaped my testimony of my Savior, how I evolved as a man, a father and a husband. They've to the letter gone on to do so many amazing things and continue to change the landscape around them for the better.

And now, as I read a recent email from Andrew, learning, as I suspected, that he is now serving on a High Council and watching today as Darin took the stand as a member of our Stake Presidency, I reflect on the men who have helped me, taught me and continue to be an example to me.

I'd like to be like these guys when I grow up.



Good men and women triumph when they make a difference to just one person. That difference will impact the eternities by virtue of the true teachings that permeate the home, relationships, posterity and daily actions of the person they touched.

Friends are brilliant.