Brazilians in Utah and a Sealing in Timpanogos

During the first week of October I ran around with a bunch of Brazilian business people who were visiting the USA. Through my personal contacts -- mostly through the BYU Management Society -- I was able to set up visits for them at Adobe, Zion's Bank, NuSkin, Google, Samsung and other such companies. I also took advantage of the opportunity to take them to the This Is the Place monument and Temple Square. Below is a picture of us with a regional president of Zion's Bank.

We took a tour of the BYU campus and had two days of lectures at the business school from a variety of specialists. I was the final lecturer and am very pleased with how things went. My friend Herbert is bugging me to get together a group of American business people to take a tour of Brazil this year.

About a month ago my dad and step-mom got sealed in Timpanogos Temple a few weeks ago. Grandma and Grandpa Boothe came out for the ceremony and stayed with me and Becca. We have been very blessed to have so many wonderful guests since we have moved into this house. They were married by their bishop years ago so we had a small and intimate get together.

My brother Grant and I were the witnesses. The sealer pronounced Dad's name wrong, which is not uncommon since Dad's name is uncommon. Generally I let things like that go but they were getting sealed for goodness sake! Fighting the temptation to simply sit there and look pretty I stopped the sealer and kindly insisted he say Dad's name right. Grandpa invited us all out to each lunch and afterwards we changed clothes and went on a hike. It was a great day.