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David Archuleta: the Eagle, the temple and the music
Mormon Life says: Good things are happening for David: receiving his Eagle Scout, going through the temple, he's on the cover of LDS Living (okay, that last one is a little biased).
It’s been a year since David Archuleta was the featured artist of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert. Sporting a sweater and scarf, the 20-year-old "American Idol" star was in town...
Boy used Scouting skills to save brother's life
Grant Grier, age 12, of the Wilmington 1st Ward, Wilmington Delaware Stake, recently received the Boy Scouts of America Heroism Award. The award is presented to youth who have demonstrated heroism in saving a life. In June of 2010, Grant used several Heimlich thrusts on his 4-year old brother,...
President Thomas S. Monson receives Canadian Scouting award
Canada and Scouting would likely be found near the top of President Thomas S. Monson's "favorites list." For three years, the LDS Church president called The Great White North home while presiding over the Church's Canadian Mission from 1959 to 1962. His talks and writings often reference the...
Thousands of Scouts gather food Saturday
Utah's Scouting for Food drive, the single largest one-day food drive sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America, will take place Saturday, March 26. Beginning at 9 a.m., thousands of Scouts throughout the state will gather food to support needs of the Utah Food Bank and other local food pantries....
{LDS How-to} Combine Scouting and Duty to God
Mormon Life says: Help a young man earn the two most important awards of his life.
One might not think Scouting and Duty to God go hand in hand. One is doctrine-related, and the other is all about tents, badges, and fire, right? While both programs have a unique take on fostering...
Cub Scout Leader: Compelled, committed or both?
Would you be a Scout leader if it wasn't an assignment from your Mormon bishop? It's a valid question — one I asked myself after a recent conversation with a high councilor in our stake. To examine my present commitment to Cub Scouts, I looked at my past that includes years as a volunteer...
High praise for the Boy Scouts
Where would you be if an emcee said, "Let's give Johnny a round of applause," and an audience of gangly, boisterous boys began to holler and vigorously clap their hands in a circular motion? At a Scout meeting, of course! And, as a worldwide program, and with its 100th year anniversary in the...
Helping less active Scouts with Faith in God awards
I arrived at the home of a Cub Scout on Friday afternoon with a Faith in God pamphlet in hand ready to do what I could to help the boy be at church on Sunday, only to find the family packing a camp trailer for a weekend in the woods. "Sis. Duce, Sis. Duce look at my new fishing pole I got for my...
From the Archives: My Love Letter to Boy Scouts
Utah’s Boy Scouts have had a rough couple of years with forest fires, massive searches for lost Scouts, and the untimely deaths of beloved sons. Although recent tolls have been heavy, the rewards, over time, have been priceless. Tessie Dalebout turned six in the spring of 1912. On May Day of that...
Cub Scout Chronicles: Water play makes any Cub's day
We recently enjoyed a quarterly Primary activity with another ward on the grounds of our town's historic mansion and arboretum. Under the shade of hundreds of trees, leaders in the Primary led groups of mingled kids on scripture-theme adventures. The obvious challenge with such events is engaging...
Mormon man doesn't have to have sons to be a Scouter
You know you're dating a real Scouter when your first date together is a Scouting event. After 26 years of marriage, Sharie Bollwinkel can only remember one year that her husband, John, didn't do any Scouting. Needless to say, John Bollwinkel of Park City, Utah, is a Scouter through and...
100 years of Scouting
"On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight." — Scout Oath Around the time our pioneer ancestors were building the Salt Lake Temple in 1875,...
Eagle Scout rank awarded to 35-year-old from Utah
The vast majority of Boy Scouts receive their Eagle Scout award by age 17. But because the paperwork never got sent in, Derick Duncan didn't receive his award until two decades later, at age 35. Duncan knew he had earned the award at age 17 in Mesa, Ariz., but between confusion over who was...
Stadium of Fire to host world's largest-ever Eagle Scout Court of Honor
The 30th annual Stadium of Fire at America's Freedom Festival at Provo is boasting more than just five-time Grammy Award-winning superstar Carrie Underwood this summer. It is also poised to have the world's largest-ever Eagle Scout Court of Honor. The Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts...
Boy Scouts announce new award for playing video games
Mormon Life says: Um...really?
You knew it had to be coming — recognition in the U.S. Scouting program for playing video games. The Boy Scouts of America have recently introduced a new belt loop and academic pin available to Cub...
