Christmas Message-Cuesta Park Ward-Christmas Day 2022 One of my earliest memories as little boy is of a Christmas morning in central Utah. That Christmas morning I decided to walk the quarter mile down the highway to my cousin's house to see what they got for Christmas. The snow was uncommonly deep, and I can still hear the crunch of the boot high snow underfoot. My mind then goes to a memory of his childhood that my dad shared from the 1920's when about my same age. A trip he would have made down the same road in a sleigh on what was then a wagon path in the dirt, a few miles further to my great grandfather Joseph Falcouner Parker's home to celebrate Christmas Eve. There the large extended family gathered around the piano, the only one in town I think he said, to sing carols and share a pioneer meal. At the end of the night, bricks were put in the fireplace and then placed in the bottom of the sleigh. When covered with a blanket these made for a warm ride home for th