Mark Durrant

Husband, Father, Real Estate Lawyer, Radio Broadcaster, Cougar, Bulldog, Packer, Blue Jay, Golfer, Maker of Lists Describing Myself

[Sang Kim @5lbtrout]

I have a few openings this summer If you want to learn how to euro nymph & become a great angler.
https://t.co/ILPPKnEsuD

[Jarom Jordan @jaromjordan]

This afternoon BYU freshman Kihei Akina will vie for the first individual national championship in program history.

He's five strokes back at -6, T-7th heading into today's final round at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, CA.

He tees off at 1:56pm PT with coverage on the Golf Channel or follow along here on the leaderboard.

https://t.co/nayd6qJegO

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

Of all the stupid golf rules, this is the stupidest.

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

“If your ball is in a divot and in the fairway, you should get free relief” 🪧🏌️

Do you agree?

[Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth]

When Joseph fell at Carthage, the Saints were a leaderless people with a price on their heads, and by every law that governs such movements, this one should have ended there.

A movement built on a martyred founder scatters and dies; it is nearly a rule of nature.

This one did not die.

Brigham Young, a plainspoken carpenter from Vermont, stood up in the smoking ruin of everything the people had built, and by the sheer iron of his will he refused to let them come apart.

He did not inherit a kingdom.

He inherited a wound, and a target, and ten thousand terrified souls, and he picked them up and carried them out.

A thousand miles, on foot and by wagon, across rivers and plains and mountains, into a desert no one else on earth wanted, because it was the only ground far enough that the world might finally let his people live.

He planned the exodus like a general and shepherded it like a father.

He buried the dead along the trail and kept the living walking.

When he came through the last canyon and looked out over a valley of salt and sagebrush that any sane man would have called a graveyard, he did not flinch and he did not despair.

He said this is the place.

And then he did the most audacious thing any leader of this people has ever done since Moses. He told a starving, frostbitten, exhausted remnant to build.

There was no water where they needed it. No timber. No certainty the ground would yield a single season’s bread.

There was a killing winter, and crickets that came in black clouds to devour what little they dared to plant.

And into that emptiness Brigham spoke a civilization.

He pulled the rivers down out of the mountains in the first irrigation works the American West had ever seen. He laid out a city in clean squares with his own hand and his own eye. He planted across a thousand miles of wasteland an entire commonwealth of towns and farms and temples, not by accident, not by drift, but by deliberate design, as a sustained act of faith, because he believed God had given his people a place and it was his charge to make it bloom or die in the trying.

Brigham took the most worthless land on the map and commanded it to bring forth life, and it obeyed him, because behind the command was a faith that would not entertain the possibility of failure.

Understand what this means for you, sitting comfortable and well fed in a Church whose survival you have never once had to fight for.

Every blessing you take for granted rests on a foundation that hunted, half starved people laid with their bare hands under his direction.

The temples you walk into exist because Brigham would not let the building stop.

The very endurance of this Church, that it survived the decades when extermination was not a memory but a living and legal threat, is the work of his unbreakable conviction that God was not yet finished with this people.

Joseph was the seer who tore open the heavens.

Brigham was the lion who made certain there would still be a people left on the earth to receive what the heavens had poured out.

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

@Ourharveyclan Thanks! Yes, but hasn't committed yet.

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

Congrats to Stratton Durrant! She killed it this year!

[Emily Jashinsky @emilyjashinsky]

Just to pause on the class question here:

This is a billionaire politician telling girls who might need sports scholarships to comfortably afford college: "There are more important things than whether you start on your high school basketball team"

While peddling debunked ideas promoted by interest groups funded by the same progressive billionaires

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

@ScottyGZone Happy birthday, Brody!

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

How did Joseph Smith concoct the most mathematically efficient monetary weights-and-measures system known to man — with a 3rd grade education, at the age of 23?

Or maybe… just maybe… the purported ancient origin of the Book of Mormon is true.

[Utah State Bar @UtahStateBar]

Few judges leave a mark on a state’s legal system the way Chief Justice Matthew B. Durrant has. The Utah State Bar and the broader legal profession are better for his involvement.
https://t.co/RveNZuhfSk

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

@rtmccombs Doesn't Keba have a twin?

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

@HouseLowlights @camstew

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

By chance, do you play basketball?

[3⭐️ Moa Havili @MoaHavili]

I am blessed and proud to announce that I am committing to play football at BYU🤙‼️
#CougerNation #GoCougs🤙

@BYUfootball @kalanifsitake @Pouha91 @GrangerFB_WVC @All_Poly_Sports @BrandonHuffman @GregBiggins

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

@drewjay Thanks, Jay. Great to see you yesterday. Great work by Kristin!

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

@BYUSportsNation @jaromjordan @Spencer_Linton Get ready for a big letdown. Those guys are thee worst.

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

@killroyboy Thanks! Let's go, Alex!

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

Proud dad here. My daughter Stratton was absolutely amazing today, shooting 3 under and finishing 2nd in 6A. She's worked so hard to get where she's at, and it's great as a parent to see your child rewarded for their efforts. These young women are such talented athletes that perform under enormous amounts of pressure. If you play golf, you know. It's jaw dropping how good these girls play. Congrats to all who teed it up today!

[KSL Sports @kslsports]

High school girls golf: Woods Cross repeats in 5A with season-best depth; Lone Peak pulls away for 5th straight 6A title 👇

https://t.co/aJdDIi5R18

[Big 12 Conference @Big12Conference]

The Cougars are moving on 🐾

[La Giornata Tipo @parallelecinico]

A sinistra, nel 2016, un ragazzo si trova in Nicaragua, è lì da due anni dopo aver abbandonato il basket e la famiglia per “portare la parola di Gesù Cristo” tra le persone più disagiate del paese. Una notte subisce una rapina e viene malmenato da quattro persone: gli serviranno sei mesi di cure dentistiche e due denti finti nuovi.

A destra, questa notte, c’è un ragazzo che ha trascinato Cleveland in finale di Conference dominando gara 7 contro Detroit, con 23 punti in 25 minuti in uscita dalla panchina. In bocca ha il paradenti perché, per esperienza, sa bene che i dentisti possono costare come un attico in centro storico a Milano.

Entrambi i ragazzi rispondono al nome di Sam Merrill.

[Mark Durrant @DurrantMark]

@MLB Brother Bushman. Hook a brother up!