Resurrection of the Study Group Blog

Sue Robinson talked to me about bringing back our blog. I checked and it is still here, although a bit rusty from lack of use - the last post was in September of 2009. Her idea is to open up posting to everyone in Study Group and have everyone do a little bit in creating a lasting record of our experiences together. To that end, I have entered your names (via your email addresses) as authors of this blog. That should enable each of you to post blog entries that we all can share. So I make a post and open it up to you. Let me know how it goes and if you encounter any problems along the way I'd be happy to TRY and help. (no guarantees). So along those lines, here's a new post.

Last night, the Groupers were treated to an especially lovely event courtesy of groupers, Doug and Karren Hammer. They hosted us at their lovely home with guest speakers Mike & Jackie Leavitt. That is former Utah Governor, former US Cabinet Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency, former US Cabinet Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt and his lovely wife, the former first lady of our state. It seems that years ago, Doug was their home teacher. They had traveled together in China. We talked at great length about their experiences on the national scene as members of the LDS faith. And then discussed what effect the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman meant for the Church nationally. The success of Tony-award winning play, "The Book of Mormon" entered into the conversation, also. Personally, I cannot imagine more wonderful representatives of Utah and the LDS faith than the Leavitts. It was inspiring and delightful to be with them. Karren had confiscated all the most beautiful fresh fruit from the Salt Lake valley and arrayed strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, & peaches among meringue and ice cream for our enjoyment. It doesn't get any better than this! Thank you, Hammers!