My new hero

Last night, at our new church building we had the opportunity to listen to President Alan C. Ashton speak about the Dead Sea Scrolls and "other writings from the dust".

It was quite interesting, and you could see how into it he was. A little info about him though, he co-founded Wordperfect! He was a computer science professor at BYU, and he and his wife co-created Thanksgiving Point! He's kind of my new hero. :)

He's adorable. He had this teeny tiny laptop (an acer? i believe) and he was giving his presentation from it, and of COURSE he was running Wordperfect. WP merged with Novell and he's on the board of directors now. Look at how cute he is:


He's been the President of the Canada Toronto West mission for the past 3 years or so. They were supposed to be going home like in a week or so, but something happened with the new Mission President, so they're staying in Toronto till September. Kinda crappy, I heard they just shipped all their stuff back to Utah on Tuesday, and they found out yesterday (wed) that they had to stay till September till a new Mission President could be called. poor kids.

Anyway... They created Thanksgiving Point! In my opinion, it is truly one of the highlights of visiting Utah. (After, of course, visiting my family ;) ). It's beautiful there, any time of year. The gardens are truly amazing. It's a totally non-profit place they've basically donated to Utah. Anyway, it rocks.

Here's another link for TP. Love it.

Tonight, we're going shopping for Young Womens camp this summer. We're bringing all the girls with us too. Should be fun, hectic, and hopefully we'll get lots done. :)