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Bryan Burt

Who would have ever dreamed that there would be anyplace but Springville to live and raise a family. However, that has never been in the cards for our family. The journey began with a mission to the Central British Mission that was both rewarding and challenging. The Viet Nam War was a really picking up speed when I returned home and the Air Force told me they would teach me to fly planes if I would join immediately, serve in the ROTC while completing my engineering degree at BYU and then go to pilot training. Naive me, I assumed that after five years of college the war would be over and they wouldn’t need pilots anymore. How silly. I served five years with the Air Force, flew combat missions in Vietnam (surprise), Korea, Iceland and other garden spots around the globe. I married Lynn (blind date) during the last year of college and the military finally situated us in Sacramento, CA. When it was time to choose whether to stay in or get out, I chose getting out and we moved our young family to Southern Idaho in the hopes we could ultimately transition back to Springville. “Didn’t happen!”, but the Teton Dam failure did and we lost everything except each other and our young family (lots of good lessons learned from this experience).
Ever since then the Lord has moved our family all over the United States. Four sons were all born in different states. We have owned or rented 18 homes (sometimes two at a time) during our 43 years of marriage in California, Idaho, Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, and lastly in Georgia. These opportunities have been challenging and rewarding at the same time. You will notice that Utah never made it to the list, even though we tried. My work still keeps me travelling while managing construction projects for power and environmental projects (wind, gas fired power plants, coal fired power plants, biofuels, refineries, biomass power plants and other chemical processes) There has even been time to play golf once in a while during these years.
The Lord has truly been good to us. We have had many amazing opportunities to serve in the Church among some wonderful people, from Young Men’s President, Bishop, Stake President and High Councilor (7 times). I really enjoy teaching gospel doctrine now.
Three of our sons are married and have children of their own (5 grandchildren). One son is semi disabled and lives with us.
I often reflect on associations with the ‘Red Devils’ of Springville. I will always remember some of those very serious conversations and some of those just plain embarrassing moments. (Not to be relived out loud).
There is no place like home (Springville) and the friends made during those far away years. Those were the some of the ‘best of times’.

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