As Rich and I were traveling home on Sunday from a week of reunions we got a radio station called "The Sounds of Sunday." We were happy to hear uplifting music and talks as we drove South through all those little Utah towns. There was a talk given by President Monson in 1998 titled, "Look to God and Live." I was feeling homesick, tired and anxious to get home and as I listened to the words, he was speaking to my heart. Some of the quotes I remember were, "life is a school of experience, a time of probation. We learn as we bear afflictions and live through our heartaches." "Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome." As we arrived in Panguitch, there was a statue of a guy holding a quilt. Rich's sister had told us the story of the pioneers who were freezing to death in the snow so they got down on their knees in a prayer cirlcle on a quilt.The answer was to lay their quilts down and walk across them. There were seven guys who were named the quilt walkers. One of the guys was a decendent of Rich's so we took some pictures before we continued on our way home.
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