The Rivers

    Oh my goodness the Ohio River is stunning. Mother has music to a song called "Beautiful Ohio" and I must look for that when I get home.
    This morning Pat and I set the alarm for 4:30 AM so we could make an early morning Seminary class in Ashland, Kentucky. Most of the road we traveled on ran parallel to the Ohio river. In the Tri-State area there is West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky and there are many huge bridges crossing the Ohio many times. In many places the river is about a half mile wide. This area of the country has big Poplar trees that are thick and lush. These trees line the river and it is a beautiful picture everywhere you look. The Ohio river can handle big barges that run up and down.
    There are are many other smaller rivers of varying sizes. The Mud River looks like it's name, brown and The Guyandote River both are fairly good size rivers that literally remind me of Christmas ribbon candy. They are that curvy. We see these rivers many times here in Huntington and Barboursville.
    Now the rivers are really cool but I must speak of the Seminary class. The class had 6 students and meet in the Ashland Ward building. I am so impressed with these young people and there families that make the effort to get up and come to Early morning Seminary. The students are from 3 different High Schools some as much as 25 minutes from the church. At the beginning of the class the students looked as if they might be sleeping but after the prayer they came alive and were engaged and participated. They will be blessed for making this sacrifice to be in Seminary each day. We that have been blessed with released time certainly take it for granted.
    Life is good here in West Virginia, it's Almost Heaven. Traynors