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The Beehive would love to share the joy of your wedding or anniversary by featuring you on our brand new Celebrations Page!
If you were recently married or celebrated an anniversary milestone and would like to be featured on our Celebrations Page, simply email your head and shoulders photo, along with pertinent dates and a photo credit to: info@ArizonaBeehive.com
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This issue we extend a special congratulations to Michael Miller and Aidan Clark for their recent marriage AND for being our first couple featured on the Beehive Celebrations Page! Michael Miller & Aidan Clark
Space is limited. The Beehive reserves the right to crop photos if necessary and to decline a submission for any reason.
Married January 25, 2020
Photo by Ray Gosha
Legacy of Faith Tours An Amazing Journey Through Church History
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inda Updike is a self-proclaimed “Church history nerd.” A sixth generation Arizonan, she was one of the first young sister missionaries called to serve at the Hill Cumorah historical sites. While there, she compiled the early Church history study curriculum for her fellow site sisters. She’s also taught seminary in both Arizona and Utah. As someone who had studied Church history in depth, she started to notice there were more opportunities available for people to take historical tours from Utah. For almost 15 years, she’d contemplated doing something similar in Arizona. Her Legacy of Faith Tours was created to fill that need: finally, there would be a Church history expedition organization originating in Arizona. About 5 years ago, Rinda contacted a friend and mentor who had launched similar trips out of Las Vegas, and she became an apprentice of sorts, riding on the tours and learning the ins and outs of the business. A year later, she was ready to form what she nicknamed “The Guinea Pig Tour” and invited a few close friends on the first trip.
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By Katherine Ogden
“I wanted to create an opportunity for youth and adults from Arizona to experience the historical sites of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a more personal way. I really wanted to give people
Photo by Rinda Updike
Members of 2019 tour visiting Liberty Jail.
Grave Marker of Solomon Kimball.
in Arizona an affordable opportunity to take the tour,” says Rinda, “Sometimes [the tours] are offered nearly at cost.” “The tour was such a blessing,” says Tammy King, one of the members of the first tour. “We’re related to Heber C. Kimball on my mother’s side of the family, and we toured through several graveyards during the trip. It was amazing to me to be able to see the headstone belonging to Solomon F. Kimball, the father of Heber and greatPhoto by Tammy King
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