Death Valley

i spent last weekend in Death Valley, California with my dad and little sister.

it's such a mysterious place...you go from 4000 ft above sea level and then suddenly drop to -200 ft below sea level. it's so dry & hot. there's hundreds of alluvial fans and the ground has strange salt stuff building up? but it is definitely gorgeous & a place everyone should see. the mountains are different there, the colors are amazing. there aren't very many places you can go and just see miles and miles of mountains, so it's pretty amazing.

in institute yesterday we went over President Uchtdorf's talk "You Matter to Him", one of my favorites from last conference. he says, "Compared to God, man is nothing. Yet we are everything to God". after spending the weekend in the outdoors & marveling over so many of God's incredible creations, how cool is it to think that we are His greatest creation. if that doesn't make you feel important, i don't know what will.