America!!

I just returned from Williamsburg (Virginia). I can't believe how much history there is back there. we spent time wandering around "Colonial Williamsburg" where they had a town set up like it would have been back before the United States was a nation. We walked around the Jamestown settlement, one of the first British settlements in the New World. and through Yorktown, an army post where we won the battle and pushed out the British during the war, with the help of the French.

As I was listening to the stories and relearning the history that I had forgotten, I started thinking about the people who created this nation. They had a desire to be free and established a nation under the hand of God. With all that is going on in the world today I get a little discouraged sometimes, remembering our forefathers and what they did for me, and the opportunities that we have because of them.

I echo the words of President Gordon B. Hinckley: "I love America!! I love America for it's great and brawny strength, the products of its vital factories, and the science of it's laboratories. I love it for the great intellectual capacity of it's people, for their generous hearts and their helping hands. I love America's tremendous Spiritual heritage and strengths. It is unique among the nations of earth- in it's discovery, in its birth as a nation, in the amalgamation of the races and cultures that have come to its shores, in the consistency and strength of it's government."