Yesterday I was set apart as a Bishop

On June 19, 2011 (Father's Day), President Mark Ivins of the American Fork East Stake set me apart as Bishop of the American Fork 29th Ward. I was ordained a Bishop on June 13, 2010 by President Steven Owen of the BYU 8th (Married Student) Stake, and I served for 11 months as Bishop of the BYU 172nd Ward. When the BYU 8th Stake became the Springville YSA Stake on May 1, 2011, the married students I had presided over went into 11 different family wards in south Provo and my wife, Shannon & I went back to our home ward in American Fork. For 7 weeks I held no formal Church calling. Now I am back in the traces and a new adventure has begun. The fact that 28,424 of us around the world (2011 Church Almanac citing data as of 1 January, 2010) are willing to do this job for no monetary compensation surely ranks as one of the strongest testimonies of the truthfulness of the restored Church in this dispensation.