July 2007

This is where Bill went to High School. He had 24 in his Graduating Class in 1962 (12 girls and 12 boys) President Hinkley came to re-dedicate the Academy in 1984 (at the time of its centenial celebration). It was a wonderful experience. We decided to go about 2 hours early so we could get a good seat. But when we got there, the entire baseball field was completely field and we had to get seats toward the back. There was such a spiritual feeling every where and everyone wanted to come and see the prophet. It was on his way back to El Paso to catch a plane back to Salt Lake that he had the revelation to place smaller temples all over the world and drew up preliminary plans during the plane ride home. While he was there, he confirmed that the Juarez Stake of the Church had provided more leadership to the church by far than any other stake in the church. It had provided 5 apostles, 45 mission presidents, temple presidents and alot of other leaders.....particularly in the early days of the church.