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One Vote?

Election day has come and gone. The media is still focusing on the politics of course; you would think other things were not happening anywhere?

In history class Zach has been learning some really interesting things this year. One of the things that was discussed was the difference that ONE VOTE can make. So often we hear that our votes don't count, it sure does feel that way sometimes. So does One Vote count? Here are some examples:

• 1776- It was determined we would speak English instead of German by ONE VOTE.
• 1895- ONE VOTE determined we would admit Texas into the Union.
• 1923- It was ONE VOTE that gave Hitler control over the Nazi party.
• 1958- Eight members of the House of Representatives were re-elected by less than ONE VOTE per precinct.
• 1960- John F Kennedy beat Richard Nixon by ONE half VOTE per precinct in the Presidential Election.

Just a little food for thought.

Here are some pictures of Zach from his Youth Conference (YC). Zach loves to go to YC and doesn't mind sitting and listening to speakers for hours on end. During his recent YC they had 13 hours of speakers, that is the equivalent of sitting thru 13 Sacrament Meetings! They of course did this over 5 days time.

Whey they are not listening to speakers they do have other activities or sometimes special guests. One such guest was very much enjoyed by Zach this year. It was the group Noteworthy from BYU; you can tell from the picture why Zach liked them so much. They are an all girl A Cappella group. So here is Zach with the group:




We found a video of the ladies on You Tube that you can check out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72I6vp5x9YQ



Also at YC was another speaker that Zach enjoyed. It was Brother Smith, Zach can't remember his first name. Brother Smith was the EFY President the first year Zach went in 2007 at SVU. According to Zach Brother Smith is an amazing speaker and he remembers peoples names with a key word of phrase. Zach's key phrase is, "Why are you wearing Kelly's shirt?" No that was not a problem! It was just the phrase that was picked, or so I am told.

Here is a quote that Zach loves:

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization. It expects what never was and what never will be. Thomas Jefferson

Liahona Academy

As many of you know Zach participates in a distance education program for school. He has 3 of his primary classes via video school through Liahona Academy- History, Science, and English. Each year the academy holds an annual Youth Conference at Aspen Grove, which is the neighbor of the Sundance Ski Resort.

This year Liahona Academy completed construction on their new school building. When Zach went to attend the Youth Conference we stopped and toured the new school building.

Here are pictures of Zach outside of Liahona Academy in Pleasant Grove, Utah.



Outside of the school, as you can see they are still working on finishing touches.

This is the library at the school. Brother DeGraff, the history teacher and one of the founders of the school, gave us a tour of the school when we arrived. He told us that the library was a bit larger than they had actually planned. That sounded like a familiar problem...

This is just a walkway outside.

This is the English class that Zach's teacher films from each day.

Here is the history class. I think this is Zach's favorite class from Liahona Academy. This class has cool propts, but they are not seen in the videos each day.

Zach with his history teacher Brother DeGraff. He is pointing out the backdrop that is used for class each day, it will match the cover of the history book (that we will actually get in November). Brother DeGraff writes his own curriculum, his books are well worth adding to any library!

That is the actual Liahona Academy; if you want to check out their website just click on Liahona Academy. All of the classes are online this year, so if you would like to check out a class- ask Zach the next time he is at your house to log on and show you one.

We will need to extract some photos from Zach of the actual Youth Conference. So we will post some of those next time.