The Standard of Truth

Good news! We just found out our assignments for the Hill Cumorah cast (we will be there in July.) (Note: When we were in the cast in 2003 and 2005, Wayne and I were "cast team leaders" over the 11 year old boys, then the 13 year old boys. That meant we were similar to Young Men leaders, scout leaders, seminary teachers, Youth Conference leaders, and EFY leaders all rolled into one, for 17 days.) Our assignment for 2009: We are over a group of ADULTS! Hallelujah! This will be much easier. I think we will just send emails out to our cast team members, and assign each adult to be in charge of the activities for our group for one day each. This will be a breeze. Naps, anyone?

Also, if you know Dorothy and Kelly Tucker, we found out they will be in the Cumorah cast this summer also.

The Standard of TruthWayne, Tara, Zac and I have little pieces of paper printed with the following paragraph taped up all over our house so we can memorize it again. It is called "The Standard of Truth", and while we are in the cast of the Hill Cumorah Pageant in July we will be reciting it at the beginning of every devotional (we have 2-3 devotionals a day there). We memorized it in 2003 and in 2005, when we were in the cast before, but we have forgotten it. (Except for Tara, she still knows it by heart.)

“…Our missionaries are going forth to different nations,…..the standard of truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing: persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”

Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Volume IV, Page 540