{"id":5668,"date":"2012-04-30T07:20:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2012-04-30T07:21:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:21:27","slug":"5668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/5668\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_7715.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5669\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_7715.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_7715.jpg 433w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_7715-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_7699.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5670\" title=\"DSC_7699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_7699.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_7699.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_7699-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_7699-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of us at the youth temple trip. It was a good day and 5 of these youth brought family names to the temple. They like family history work and they love the temple.<\/p>\n<p>I smile at the permanent connections that are forged through this service with the youth. T. Nay was a scout leader in this ward, but the first time I met him was when I was 16 and he was a scout leader with my dad. One of the women in my presidency is Lucille S&#8217;s niece. Lucille served with my mom when my mom was Young Women president. I didn&#8217;t stay in Provo, but despite this, in this tiny town we meet and continue the tapestry of our relationships with these families.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that it is a coincidence that there are certain people in our lives with whom we learn and serve. The individual nature of Christ&#8217;s rescue and concern is evidenced in the people which seem to be hand-picked for us to meet. We need them and they need us and my obscure location matters little because the Lord finds a way to continue the ties and raise up friends and associates to help us.<\/p>\n<p>Some days it feels lonely in this desert, but I just need to think about the people I know here and it doesn&#8217;t seem as barren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of us at the youth temple trip. It was a good day and 5 of these youth brought family names to the temple. They like family history work and they love the temple. I smile at the permanent connections that are forged through this service with the youth. T. Nay was a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/5668\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Desert Friends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}