Golfing Buddies

Golf is great for taking one's mind off of set backs and rejection. There's nothing like a little white ball to keep you humble and distracted from discouragement on preparation day. The golf ball is magical. It can either invigorate you when it rolls on the green towards the hole or deflate you as it flies in reverse over your head during that chip shot.

Great Britain is the mother of golf and Australia must be its offspring. Here Bradley is golfing with the ward mission leader in a photo posted January 2013. This mission leader provided amazing and energetic support.

Here is a photo of my father's mission companions golfing in Rockhampton QLD, Australia circa 1958. 

Jim Hillyard took the photo. I've discovered that my father was a good hobby photographer. He has some excellent photos from his mission and later purchased a Super8 film camera when it was the newest technology. It follows that as an IBM salesman later he was one of the first to bring home a personal PC. This personal computer I took to Brigham Young University my freshman year, 1983. Even fifty years later my dad has an iPhone 5, iPad and Dell laptop computer. He's 78 years old and no one needs to teach this old dog to create folder and capture screen--even if he did his son, Paul, and son-in-law, Bob Smith, would be on hand to assist with technical difficulties.