My wife gives me a hard time every now and
then telling me that the young women do more and learn more at their camps then
the young men do. She’s probably right, but I have to do the man thing and not
go down without some type of fight. I loved Boy Scout camps; it was too much
fun, even if some of it meant getting into more trouble than what it was worth.
But that’s all part of being a young man, do first—think later. I remember the
scout group from our ward, two years ahead of us, decided to do the long trek
from Calgary, Alberta to Salt Lake City. One night, as their leaders were
sleeping, the young men snuck out and went to a nearby motel to swim in the
pool. The leaders were awakened by a very early morning call from the police
asking the leaders where their boys were. They were then told by the police
that they could pick up their boys at the police station as long as they
promised that none of these young men will be caught trespassing into swimming
pools where they don’t belong. Ah, live and learn.
What year was the very first Boy Scout
troop organized in the Church?
A)
1897
B)
1923
C)
1911
D)
1902
Yesterday’s
answer:
(A)
The London Temple
Soon
after the London Temple site was purchased, President David O. McKay walked the
temple grounds and determined that the temple was to be constructed near a pond
on the property. The site engineers wanted another location chosen since they
felt the ground was too boggy to support the weight of the temple. President
McKay insisted that this is where they were to build. Upon further
investigation, workers discovered that beneath the boggy ground was solid shale
at the proper depth to support the temple.
Chad S.
Hawkins, The First One Hundred Temples (Salt Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2001), pg.
40.
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