Sunday In Alma

Yes, in our stake, there is a town named Alma.  On June 11, all three of us spoke in Church and attended their block of meetings.  Then we stepped into Sacrament meeting for the Van Buren Ward which meets in the same building.  This time, Jena was assigned to talk about service and Gary and I were assigned talks given by Elder and Sister Rasband which they gave in 2022 at a General YSA Devotional.  Gary gave an excellent talk related to Elder Rasband's remarks and focused on following modern prophets. 

The Primary children had all made "flowers" for their temple and shared some of the things that they have been learning about the temple.  Everyone is preparing for the open house and to have a temple closer to home.

I think this is a fun idea for Primary.

After the Van Buren Ward Sacrament meeting (where they also sang "The Spirit of God like a Fire is Burning), we headed to a nearby park to eat a lunch that I had packed.  We had a meeting with the Van Buren Bishop at 12:30 and then were heading straight to the YSA branch so we needed to have some lunch in the middle of it all.  Seemed weird to eat at the Church so chose the closest bit of green on our google map which turned out to be the Alma Aquatic Park...which was near the Lake Alma.

It was a pretty hot day so we decided to stay in the car under a tree for lunch.

We had a few extra minutes so we drove around a part of the lake and checked it out.  We will come back and take a trail or two around it sometime.

Peaceful place in the middle of a small town.