MormonTimes.com: Texas park built with faith, work and miracles

Published: Monday, April 6, 2009 12:09 a.m. MDT
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It was four acres with a playa lake in a relatively new subdivision in the community of Wolfforth, in the Texas panhandle just southwest of Lubbock.

Several mothers in the Frenship Mesa neighborhood figured it would be a great place for a park and received approval from City Council.

"We thought it would be easy," Julie Merrill, a member of the Lubbock 3rd Ward, said of the park. She and the other residents figured getting the Eagle Scouts involved and some other simple projects would take care of it.

About three years, eight Eagle projects, about $350,000 in donated cash and materials and then thousands of man-hours during Saturday work days later, the community of Wolfforth has its park. Frenship Mesa Park was dedicated last October.

"For me, it was a testimony of faith, miracles and knowledge that God would provide all that was needed in his own time and in his own way through the wonderful people and business of the Wolfforth and Lubbock communities," Merrill said.

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Missionaries and Scouts help out on one of the Eagle Scout projects at Frenship Mesa Park in Wolfforth, Texas. The project, headed up by Kyle Anderson, was to create the park entrance, including setting posts, laying pavers and landscaping.

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