Wander With Wayne

Sarah & Nathan Riding Sarah Lyle Riding This weekend was Sarah Lyle’s wedding. She married Shaelynn McCoy’s brother, Nathan Riding, from the Payson South Stake. It was so fun to be a part of the wedding reception. To see them, and their excitement for their future. It was also great to see so many friends and neighbors that we lived with for years. While living in Idaho is great, it's difficult to leave the friends we lived near and the home we lived in for 12 years. Savanna, Tate & Dawson again Savannah Lyle with Tate & Dawson Years ago, Darren Hardy told about a time that he wrote each day, for a year, the many things he was grateful for regarding his wife. I liked that idea, so I began a gratitude journal for Noell. I decided to fill up an entire journal with feelings of gratitude toward Noell. Writing a gratitude journal for a spouse may not be something that will be beneficial to others, but it was a good experience for me. At first, I highlig...

Thinking of Myranda in the Missionary Training Center this week, memories from decades ago entered my mind. These memories were of some experiences that I had in Brazil as a missionary. Throughout my life, I’d heard of missionaries preaching the gospel. I’d heard story after story of how their words changed a person’s life. In my mind, that was what we were called to do. After being in the mission for a while, the Church began to encourage missionaries to do service. They suggested we find people who needed service and just help them. They also suggested that we could do service for community organizations. It was new and they were encouraging us to do service by districts or zones. My memories contain only a few times we completed service projects. Some of them were: painting a home, helping to build a home, helping dig a well (using a shovel), helping build a wall, weeding a garden/yard, etc. (I have photos of when we did some service on my mission. I wish I could find my photo a...

In the last letter Myranda wrote to me, she asked  about a quote regarding baptizing congregations. About 3 years ago, my great friend and co-worker Larry Stevenson retired. Years earlier, Larry’s son Eric, and I met when he was attending BYU-Idaho and was looking for employment. I was working at the Idaho Falls Church employment center. I assisted him in his employment search. He is a very talented artist, as was his grandfather.  At Larry’s retirement party, Eric and I visited. We’ve visited numerous times over the years and like his father, Eric is a man who expands my vision. As we talked, he mentioned that he was currently serving as a stake mission leader. He then told me that he believes that there will again be times when individuals will flock to the Church for baptism, similar to when missionaries first went to England.  His thought struck me—first as odd. Although, within a moment, I felt he was right. I still feel a warm feeling that groups will soon ...