During
my two years of voluntary service as a missionary for The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I worked hard and made missionary work my highest
priority and focus. So, naturally, my ideas for music (and poetry) had to do
with the truths I was teaching. I always wrote these ideas down, but because I
wanted to focus on my missionary service for these two years, I didn’t take the
time to develop many of these ideas into full-fledged compositions. The ideas
that I haven’t developed or used in a composition are in my bank of melodies (a
separate Finale file).
However,
in the occasional idle moment (which was really quite rare) I developed these
three compositions. I will also say right now that I confess there were times
in my mission when I could have been more focused than I was. In some of those
moments, if there was a piano in the room, I sat down and hammered out some
chords for these pieces. When I returned home from my two years of service, I
took my pieces of notebook paper and wrote my melodies and compositions onto Finale
files.
Mission Works
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