TODAY IS THE DAY WE HONOR THOSE WHO GAVE HELP TO OTHERS

MANY OF US STILL CALL IT DECORATION DAY; AND OTHERS  CALL  IT MEMORIAL DAY.

EITHER WAY, IT IS TO RECOGNIZE THOSE WHO SERVED OTHERS. TODAY I LEFT AN IRIS 

FLAG OR FLOWER AND ON THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY,  I SALUTED THEM, 

BUT PAID TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SERVED OTHERS IN A CHRIST LIKE MANNER. 

DRIVING TO AND FROM VINEBLUFF CEMENTARY, MY SPEED WAS SLOW AND THOUGHT

PROVOKING. AT FIRST,  I WAS ABOUT TO UTTER DISCONTENT TO THE FIVE  SPEEDING 

VEHICLES HITTING THEIR ACCLERATOR UP 1250 NORTH. I  ST0PPED AS THEY 

TURNED SOUTH ON 4TH EAST, BYPASSING THE HALLOWED GROUND OF THOSE  

WHO SERVED,  AND EAST TO THE NEARBY LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL DIAMONDS. 

THOUGH A SINNER I REMAIN, GOD RESPONDED TO MY CRY, AND THE THREE YOUNG 

KIDS CROSSING THE STREET SUDDENLY STOPPED AND AVOIDED INJURIES. GOD

STILL WORKS MIRACLES TO ALL  OF US WHO REMAIN ON EARTH.

THIS IS THE ALMA JONES FAMILY TRIP TO KANAB OF YESTERYEAR

When all of us were younger, everything we did appeared to be easy.. I have now reached the age that I am no longer young, and I at least acknowledge that truth. Alma Jones escaped life on earth in 1984, but his legacy will always live on with his kids and their kids. In Nephi during the 1950's, Alma and LaVon Jones had five kids running around the house that was built in 1885. Even after it was built, there was only a outhouse for adults and kids, but when we kids came along, improvements were made and it was a very comfortable house that became our home.  Alma laid cement where the clothesline was, and with four boys that were a handful, especially when they were only about a year or so apart, our mother figured out how she could do what needed to be done in the house, so she invented a good way for us toddlers and hooked up a rope so each of us could run up and down the length of the clothes line. That provided safety and practical.When LaVon was so busy she was about to explode, Alma took the hint well, and all the kids jumped in the pick up truck and went out to get a load of sand and firewood so our mother could start the kitchen stove, which she used for cooking and the hot water would go in the tank for baths. When Dad and us kids came back, two or three of the boys would take a bath and enjoy supper, and only when we got older, little did we know we were close to poor, but always had plenty of enjoyment. Anyway, we  had fun out west and Mom needed the rest. So over time, we started what  we called "The Alma Jones Trip" and travel to a place that was known to us or back when Wm Jones took a wagon of supplies to places in Nevada that was a part of the Utah Territory. The outline below is the trip to Kanab where we hooked up with the family of Don Jones, who was the son of Bert Jones, who was a brother of Alma Jones. If this old brain can figured it out, we will add how our trucks got stuck in a Tributary to the Colorado River and we got it out and stayed in Kanab where John Wayne stayed when Western movies were filmed.