Kent Kay Anderson July 7, 1933 ~ March 13, 2021 (age 87) Kent Kay Anderson passed away peacefully on March 13, 2021, surrounded by family members, after a long illness due to complications of diabetes and after suffering a stroke. Kent was born on July 7, 1933 in Enoch, Utah the fifth son of Roland J. and Ellen Chaffin Anderson. He graduated from Cedar City High School in 1951. In 1952, Kent and his twin brother Keith enlisted in the U.S. Air Force where he was trained as a jet mechanic, serving at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, NV. While serving at Nellis he married JaNeene Rae Baldwin, the daughter of Ray and Dorothy Murphy Baldwin for time and all eternity on September 17, 1954 in the St. George Temple. After leaving the military, he graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelors of Science degree and later earned his Master’s degree in Education Administration at the University of Utah. Following graduation, the family moved to Henderson, Nevada where he began his career in education with the Clark County School District. He taught 8th grade science, was the Dean of Students and Assistant Principal at Burkholder Junior High School. In 1985, he accepted the position of Principal at Virgin Valley in Mesquite, Nevada and the family made their home in Bunkerville, Nevada. When Kent started at Virgin Valley he was the principal of all grades K-12, but was later instrumental in the building of Virgin Valley High School where he served as Principal for grades 7-12. He loved the students of Virgin Valley and was always proud to be a “Bulldog”. Kent served faithfully and diligently in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While living in Henderson, he worked with the scouting program, as a councilor in the Bishopric, and as a Stake Councilor and for 17 years was a teacher and early morning Seminary coordinator. He helped plan and directed church history tours for the students after each of the years of Doctrine and Covenants and church history study. Both his school and seminary students remember fondly the time he spent mentoring them and helping them strive to be the best version of themselves. While in Bunkerville he served as a Stake High Councilor and as Bishop of the Bunkerville 2nd Ward. He and his wife JaNeene served two church service missions. They spent two years at Liahona High School in Tonga as CES missionaries and two years at Camp Kolob in Southern Utah. They also served for many years as ordinance workers in the St. George Temple. In every area of service, Kent was an example of hard work, dedication, good humor, and unconditional love. He made life-long friends wherever he went. He is survived by his wife; JaNeene and their four children, Craig (Pat) Anderson of Bunkerville, NV; Cheryl (Steve) Potter of Highland, UT, Brian (Suzanne) Anderson of Las Vegas, NV and Dianna Diefenderfer of Mesquite, NV, 15 grand children and 34 great grandchildren. He is also survived by his brothers; David (Mary) Anderson of Bunkervile, NV, Keith (Emily) Anderson of Bloomington, UT, Roland (DeAnna) Anderson of Las Vegas, NV, Steve (Sally) Anderson of Yuma, AZ, sister; Lona Mitchell (Lynn) of Enterprise, UT and numerous nieces and nephews who loved and adored him. Kent is preceded in death by: his parents, brothers; John (Donetta) and Boyd, sisters; Patsy and Marie (Dick) Talbot and grandson Tyler Diefenderfer. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. at the Mesquite LDS Stake Center, 100 N. Arrowhead Lane. A public viewing will be held Friday, March 19 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. , with a family viewing Saturday morning from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Bunkerville Cemetery under the direction of the Bunkerville 1st Ward Bishopric. The family would like to thank the staff of Mesa View Home Health for their dedication and kindness, and to all who have reached out with love and service during this difficult time. The family would like to invite you to leave a message or memory in their Guest Book at www.virginvalleymortuary.com. Services Visitation Friday March 19, 2021 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Mesquite LDS Stake Center 100 N. Arrowhead Mesquite, NV 89027 Funeral Service Saturday March 20, 2021 11:00 AM Mesquite LDS Stake Center 100 N. Arrowhead Mesquite, NV 89027 Visitation Saturday March 20, 2021 9:30 PM to 10:30 PM Mesquite LDS Stake Center 100 N. Arrowhead Mesquite, NV 89027

Sister Kasity Sudweeks will serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She will serve in the Chile, Osorno Mission, speaking Spanish. Kasity will start her online Missionary Training on March 31, 2021. Clint and the late Kelle Sudweeks of the Bunkerville 1st Ward are her parents. Sister Kasity Sudweeks will be speaking on Sunday, March 21st at 9 am in the Bunkerville Chapel.

Mesquite NV Stake RS Presidency President Janarah Hollingshead (B2) 1st Counselor Whitney Jensen (M6) 2nd Counselor Loretta Asay (B2) Secretary Shantelle Felshaw (B1)

Bishop Rusty Hughes 1st Counselor Zach Spilker 2nd Counselor Dave Taylor

PFC Tanner Fielding of the United States Marine Corp graduated from Boot Camp at the Marine Corp Recruiting Depot San Diego on January 28, 2021. The Marine Values are Honor, Courage and Commitment. Congratulations!

FYI Vaccination appointments are available for community members 65+. Visit vaccinatemesquitenv.org for details and appointments. There are open appointments for this Friday and next week. Residents of the AZ strip and snowbird residents are eligible. All our love, President David Anderson

RootsTech 2021 starts tomorrow, February 25th. Here is a short video to help you get the most out of this wonderful event. FamilySearch Welcome! RootsTech Connect is finally here! In this video Jen Allen, RootsTech Connect Director, will help you learn how to navigate the RootsTech Connect website. This video will be available in 11 languages on the rootstech.org website when the conference starts. These languages include: Chinese (traditional and simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Bishop Brian Haviland First Counselor Mikey Leavitt Second Counselor Cameron Klug

Elder Ethan Leavitt will serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Argentina Cordoba Mission, speaking Spanish. He is schedule to enter the Mexico City Missionary Training Center but will be starting the online home training January 19, 2021. Elder Ethan Leavitt is the son of Michael and Angela Leavitt of Bunkerville 1st Ward.

Elder McClain Easton has accepted a call to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will serve in the North Dakota Bismarck Mission. Elder Easton will report to the online Missionary Training Center on January 27, 2021 and report to North Dakota on February 16th. McClain parents are Brad and Neelie Easton of the Bunkerville 1st Ward. Elder Easton: I would like to bear my testimony. I am grateful to be a member of church of Jesus Christ of latter days saints. I bear testimony of the truthfulness of it. I know that God has a plan for each of us. I know that it is because of his Eternal Plan that I stand here today. I have a testimony of sincere prayer and the power, guidance, and comfort it provides. I am Grateful for my loving Savior, who died for each of us, that all man might be saved. I know through repentance I can gain Eternal life. I am grateful for the opportunity I have to renew my covenants and repent each Sunday through partaking the sacrament. I know that the power of the Priesthood is real and I am honored to hold the Melchizedek Priesthood and be a voice of the Lord. I am grateful that I have been called to serve a Mission in North Dakota. I promise to dedicate all my time and talents in serving my Savior. Amen

Our Virtual Stake Conference will be 17 Jan. 2021, this Sunday. If you serve in a leadership position please log in at 8:00 am. Everyone is invited to our General Session at 10:00 am. Elder Eric J. Schmutz will be our visiting authority and will preside at the conference. The link(below) for the conference is found at the same site that you have been using to view your Sunday worship service. http://mywebcast.churchofjesuschrist.org/Events/mesquitenevadastake In 1994 Elder Neal A. Maxwell made a statement that could have been made yesterday. “For some years, brothers and sisters, there has been an increasing and profound sense of existential despair in the world. This mortal hopelessness both reflects and affects much of mankind. Whether tribal or national, wars constitute “the continued experience of twentieth-century man”. A grumpy cynicism pervades politics in so many places on this planet. Holocausts, famine, pestilence, and tides of refugees have taken a terrible toll on human hope, with much of that toll coming from man-made, avoidable disasters.” Faith, Hope and Charity is what I would like to visit with you about in this short message. Once it was explained to me that a pile of firewood and a match teach the principle of Faith, Hope and Charity. · Hope is the wood and its potential · Faith is the match, the action of confidence that with action hope can be engaged or ignited. · Charity is the warmth of the glowing fire. These principles make up a three-legged stool. As Elder Uchtdorf said: “These three stabilize our lives regardless of the rough or uneven surfaces we might encounter at the time.” Now – I confess that I could be accused of a degree of “grumpy cynicism” over the past months. Waiting semi-patiently for the medical community, or the political community to solve the problem so I could get back to a “normal” life. You have heard me say that someday we are going to have to understand and live the two great commandments. Love God and Love our neighbor. I believe that these commandments are essential to exaltation. As we seek to become more, I believe that faith, hope and charity can help in our quest. These divine attributes should become fixed in our hearts and minds to guide us in all of our actions. The HOPE, power and potential of the Atonement of the Savior should give us the FAITH to act in in a Christlike manner and the warmth of that fire can provide CHARITY and shelter from the storms of life, for those around us. Back to Elder Maxwell: Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, charity, and patience. The latter qualities must be carefully and constantly nurtured, however, whereas doubt and despair, like dandelions, need little encouragement in order to sprout and spread. Alas, despair comes so naturally to the natural man! Mosiah 3:19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father. Of this I bear my witness President David J. Anderson