Show 'FFf wwwf P F P ' P P i 13 Opinion 16 Crossword 17 The Hatald Journal Logan Utah Thursday July 9 1998 Justin Alan ton ol Jafl and Linda Alton of Rrovktonca accaptad a call to tiro Qannany Hamburg LOS Minion Ha apaaka at 9 am 8unday n tha Pravklanca 1st Ward ISO N 100 EaaL He anlaia ttw Mtoaionaiy Training Canlar d Auetin Bantoid aonolQary and Wandy of North Logan hae aooaplad a cal to aerve ih tha Madagascar Antananarivo LDS Mlaaion Ha wM apeak at 2 pm Sunday In tha North Logan 11th Ward 1550 E 1900 North Ha anlaia tic Mtootonaty Training Center on July 22 Ban-lor- J Andy Back aon ol Lyto and Daaaa Back ol rtonn loohi oooopwa cm mo wonnocBOui Hartford LOS Mtoalon Ha apaaka at 2:45 pm Ward 2850 N Sunday In fte North Logan 900 EaaL Ha antera tha Mtoalonary Training Cantor July 15 i b 5i WHtfarn Hoyt Bata aon ol Phi and KaM Bate ov nMr noymii vw doovi goooq oorvo m wio LDS Mtoalon Altoona Tucaon Spantoh-SpaaMn- g Ha wW apeak at 11 Sunday In tha Prov- b am idence Stake Canter BOO S 900 EaaL River won no oiBoro mo iwooionory noon Ua tar July 15 imib Erie Cetoman aon ol Ruaaal and Unda Cote-maot8nBhlloldaooaotod a cal to aomu In ttia Hungary Budapaat LDS Mlaaton Ha wi apeak at 10:45 am Sunday In tfw 8mHhflald IStfi Ward 150 & 900 EaaL Ha anlaia tha Mtoaionaiy Training Cantor July 15 n Jaramy Cranar aon ol Mary Lou Cranar ol Logan and Jerry Cranar ol RtohMd Idaho has recently returned from tha Taiwan Taipei LOS Mtoalon Ha wN apeak al 9 Sunday In ttw Crockett Ward 325 Lauralki Driua am Judd QoS aon ol Paul and Rhoda God ol M5 Mto hae aooaplad a cal to aerve In tfw To North Japan LDS Mtoalon Ha wN apeak at 11: am Sunday In tha Millville 2nd Ward 300 E 450 North He antera tha Mtoalonary Training Cantor on July 15 Omni ton of Chrtilnt ond Jock of SnfMWd hoo iBOonky ittumtd from I AW klAAlau NNSOlOn mO 5111 NOW TOW NOW TOIK aLul NOW1 UB flO wB apeak at 12:45 pm 8unday In ttw SmNhltokl 7ttr Ward 50 E 200 South Bujamln (front Itow ku Brent Doan Harmon aon ol Ron and Batft Harwon ol Lawiaton haa aooaplad a cal to aarva In ttw Now ZSaland WaBngton LOS Mtoalon He wN apeak at 2:20 pm Sunday In ttw Lawiaton SrtWtti Ward IBS Main HaantorattwMtoakm-ar- y Training Cantor on July 22 Dan HWaty aon ol Rick and Matttyn HBiiy ol Nfetay haa bean catted to aatva In ttw Iowa Dee Mokwa LOS Mtoalon Ha wtN apeak at 1 pm In tha Ntotoy 4th Ward 360 W 3200 Sunday a— — m — m mo mookonoj TUhlaa no oniofo ik oOwi ir iimno wonor July 15 JuatlnHobba aon ol DotRay and Carolyn UukkA oi! wonoow Baaaaa noo aaaaa&i nooDO vooovwy vooonoo woni 010 North Carolina Chariotto LDS Mtoalon Ha wN apeak at 9:30 Sunday In ttw Banaon Ward am MIeliaal C Hotter aon ol Ron and Gloria Hotter ol Mandon haa bean catted to aarva In ttw North Carolina Raleigh LDS Mtoalon Ha will apeak at 11:30 am Sunday In ttw Mandon 2nd Ward 20 N 100 EaaL Ha antera ttw Mtoalonary Training Cantor July IS — — aJ u mnoon oon or lju tionr isoi ono juw aon ol Rtohmond haa aooaplad a cal to aarva In ttw Arizona Tucaon Spantoh Speaking LOS Ha wB apeak at 10:50 am Sunday In ttw Rtohmond Stoka Cantor 135 W Main Ha enton ttw Mwaionary Training Center on July 15 — i Mto-ak- m Joel Johnaon aon ol Lowott and Joyoa Johrv aon ol Nttrley haa aooaplad a cal to tha England London South LDS Million He wtt apeak at 11 am Sunday In tha Nibley let Ward 360 W 3200 8outti Ha antera ttw Mtoaionaiy Trebling Canlar July 15 Tarm Jonaa aon ol Art and Cattaan Jonaa ol Paradise accepted a eal to the Brazl Martlia LOS Mtoaion Ha apaaka at 2:45 pm Sunday at tha Paradtoa 2nd Ward 9060 S 200 WeaL He antera ttw Mtoaionaiy Training Cantor July IS Draw Laraan aon oi Doug and Patty Laraon of Smlthfield haa recently returned from tha Itnntttt LU9 MWIIQW nt WW at 1 pm Sunday In ttw SmNhttald Otti Ward 900 E 120 South Unt£xtn£tLncj Siqn± A mission to the deaf By Mika Ingraham tortures writer O lay ii the language of the Lord If so Ibm and Bonnie Clark have been in divine dialogue for the past year and a half They've been Latter Days Sainti missionaries amongst the deaf in Washington DG ig up a storm and finding that Tom can be calm all But now they can kiss quiet goodbye They're back in North Logan and reclaiming their ivied chateau Tom is going nuts It's interesting how you can live without all these things" he says taking in his belongings with a sweep of die arm Washington we put everything in our car and that’s all we had But we had tune and we served the Lord Time time time! We come back now and do you know what we spend all our time doing? Things! Putting away all these things!” "We have a lot of stuff" Bonnie agrees "To keep the spirituality level — that's our challenge" Not the only challenge The Clacks have been slaving — painting and laying carpet and building a shed But the hardships of homecoming ate slight compared to leaving saying goodbye to everyone and yes everything “It was a much more moving experience than we expected”1bm says He’s solemn: this was no pun Then he brightens "We thought we sacrificed to leave our family But what we find is that we're back and our familyis still here but we have another family” The Washington DC family The Gallaudet College family Tom warms to the IhoughL "We're family now!” Ibm says "We’ve got weddings and stuff to go to! We've got some of them coming in next week!" ' The house is shaping up but in any case it beats 'the apartment building where the Claris kept forgetting to push the elevator button "We had to haul all this stuff" Bonnie recalls Thke books to classes take food to lunches the neighbors in the building asked 'Where are you going all the time? What do you do?" The answer would be: The Lord’s errands and having the time of our lives The church is always stretching us" Tom says "We stepped out of our comfort zone and into a marvelous experience We love and appreciate those inner city folks like we never have before" "We're not afraid of them anymore" Bonnie adds No she’s not Stepping out of the Metro at a “scaty" stop all at once Ibm found himself alone panicked My heart was pounding Where had she gone? 1 looked way down at a bench and there she was with her arms around a tearful street lady" That's a pretty good imae of the Clarks on their mission — the embrace of just about everyone and everything But as often they were the ones being embraced by the traffic octopus If there was time with the Lord there was also time in tta straffic ffoncof their Undents havmg cars and no destination being closer than an hour away they spent much of flyir mission motoring d y V Hence they r' In 1 Brian J McBride aon ol Gerald and NaDaan Rochester New York LOS Mtoalon He wB apeak at 12:45 pm Sunday In ttw North Hyrum 8lake Cantor 245 Apple Drive Matt McBride aon ol Ron and Mary McBride of Cottage Ward recently returned from tha Brazil Salvador South LOS Mission He will speak at 1 pm Sunday in the Spring Creak Wwd 2394 W 2200 South Clayton GL Pahrson aon of Doug and Luam Pehrson of MiOvBe recently returned from ttw California Fresno LDS Mission He apaaka at 1230 pm Sunday In Iw MtfvNe 3rd Wwd 110 SouttiMabv Kevin Randal aon ol Carta Randal ol Man-do- n and Nett Randal ol Logan Iws accepted a cal to serve In ttw Pent Lima East LDS Mission Ha aril apeak at 9 am Sunday bi ttw Mandon 1st Ward 20 N 100 West Ha enters ttw Missionary Training Cantor on July 15 Ryan Pence aon ol Don and Lynotto Pence of Providence aooaptod a catt to tha Bolivia Cochabamba LDS Mission Ho speaks at 2:50 pm 8unday bi ttw Providence 5th Ward 355 MWwonBvy i iWmiq wMiyofi noo ns bwh Center July 15 ib Richard Atfon RNchte of ttw Wattsvflla 0th Branch has aooaptod a cal to aatva In ttw Mfcht-pa- n Detroa LDS Mission Ha antera tha Mlaaion ary TraMng Cantor July 12 Bee MISSIONARIES on Pegs 24 dS!”611 h "Sa't A M “ The church is always stretch" Tom us Clark who ing says with wife Bonnie served a mission to the deaf in Washington DC and comforted and coauffeured and taught about religion and marriage Concerning their own marriage they were students "That was the most important learning thing we did" Tom says “Learning abouteach other The thing we were dmng We decided right then that when our kids were gone we mu Sec COUPLE on Page IS Lives should end in a colon not a period By Kenneth W Godfrey W1 Without peri- ods we would often fail to recDo People Dot? is the title of a popular children's book I saw this volume on the pew of my church a few Sundays ago and inasmuch as the speaker was telling a story whore end I already knew I began listing in my mind the tilings that require dots My list included the end of sentences tioo maria exclamation marks i'a dice am and pm the end and of course colons wnich require double dots By the time I had reached the two-d- ot colon die speaker embarked on another voyage and I felt compelled to jump on board Still my mind dwelt on dots for another day or two Dots help signal the end of complete thoughts the excitement we sometimes encounter the questions that earth life engenders and die time of day Thus a small dot is an essential part of life that we deem important ognize when one thought ended and another began The manuscript of the Book of Mormon was submitted to the printer with little or no punctuation John S Gilbert a Palmyra New York type-settworked for weeks supplying die proper dots in the proper places Without his providing the punctuation the Book of Mormon would be just one long sentence Rudyard Kipling composed a poem just like thaL His classic TT has just one period For many of us our lives also are like that one very long sentence with no punctuation to break up the monotony Other lives are short sentences Still others live a plethora of sentences often shifting directions as they gallop from one occu er Friday Outdoors: Hyrum Dam naturally OR COPY Diana MuMhOHorakt Journal TWo) They cooked t 1 were going to plan to go on a mission The church in aB these developing countries are crying for senior missionaries Seniors have the experience they have the testimony they have the depth ofiospel They ban help these babyroagregatioos” In fact when traffic permitted the Claris did help almost aU in another languag&American Sign Language Tbm a branch president (taking over from the pilot of Air Force Ill bf Hyrum haa recently returned from tha "S PWI A ryA? leaves a local couple humbled heartened MaBy Imlg— MwighlBf ol Ibwibb bhi j mbHb Laigien ol Hyrorn haa aooaptod a cal to aerve In ttw Loutovitta Kentucky LDS Mtoalon She wM apeak at 9 am Sunday in the HyrumlOtfi Wand N 400 West She antera tha Missionary Training Cantor on July 22 Soott MarchanL son ol Goorga and Chartana Manchant ol SmHhfiald haa recently returned Item ttw Batto Horizonte Brad LDS Mtoalon Ha wB apeak at 2:50 pm Sunday In ttw Smtthltotd 12tti Ward 109 N 100 EaaL in rrr 'VWl TT TT A pation to another Then there are those who meander through life like small streams that sometimes dry up before readung the rivet In todqrs compln world many try this or that as they seek meaning m their existence Others like a good team of draft hones settle in for the long haul and it is years before the final sentence of their lives requires a period These folks as Christ commanded endure to the very end There tot many who slowly jog through life filled with questions They want to know why this and not that? Why then and not now? Why them and not us? At times these people even question their questions Seeking for answers to the queries that require question marks we often find answers that lead to eves mote questions One wise man declared that we cannot know all the answers until we have asked all the it questions And of questions any knows there seems to be no end period Yet there are some pious folk who believe they found all the answers grand-para- early in their lives and cannot understand why others probe and question things that are perfectly clear obvious and settled Some seem to believe they have cornered die answer market Sometimes 1 sit in classes and listen to positive assertions that seem to me to still contain a question mark or twa While I have sometimes envied those who exit life brimming over with certitude I at other times bdieve they have provided periods before their sentences are complete Yet other people with just die tight questions in their forehead seem to lean more and have more fun too We should not I believe complete our sentences too soon Then there are those people who live lives of exclamation mark proportions They walk a road of high adventure Living near the edge they sometimes topple over but are still able to enjoy the descent These folk fill their lives with more spice and exotic Sec GODFREY on Page 14 Features: A m AAa 752-212-1 |