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This article from Meridian Magazine is another reason it is an inspiration for the LDS Church to leave scouting after 2019. Scouting without a Compass By United Families International  · May 24, 2018 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Visit the homepage of United Families International.  The  advertising  for the Scouting event is powerful and enticing. The photos and videos show young people from all over the world at breathtaking locations sharing outdoor adventures together with these words: “ The theme, Unlock a New World… invites you to unlock new adventures, new cultures, and new friendships” as Scouting brings “together the world’s young people to promote peace and mutual understanding and to develop leadership and life skills.” What parent wouldn’t want to provide his or her child such an experience? And since Scouting is always mindful of keeping its young charges safe and protected, you can res...

For my last entry about my trip to Egypt, Petra, Jordan, and Israel, I will put various items in which may be unrelated, as I want to include all the notes I took!  I hope readers have enjoyed it.  Writing it has brought many inspiring memories back, and I'm writing it as much for myself as others, so I can come back and read them now and then. The last day, a Monday, April 30th, 2018, We went first to the Mount of Olives, and the Orson Hyde Memorial Park.   I took the above photo, With Ashlynn and Whitney Christian, but there are interesting facts on the internet: The  Church of All Nations , also known as the  Church  or  Basilica of the Agony , is a  Roman Catholic  church located on the  Mount of Olives  in  Jerusalem , next to the Garden of  Gethsemane . It enshrines a section of bedrock where  Jesus  is said to have  prayed  before his arrest. Close by is the Orson Hyde Memor...