Ethan Parker

Yesterday was wonderful. Filled with family and General Conference. A very influential person in my dad’s and therefore my life came to visit my parents while Eric and I were up there yesterday. His name is Chuck Stamps and he was my dad’s youth group (’priest quorum’ if you’re Mormon) adviser when he was 16. He would stop by my dad’s house and wait outside until he came outside ready for church. He was a big factor in my dad’s activity in the church.

We had a great connection happen- Chuck served in Tuskegee, AL in 1999-2000 on a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. One of my accounting professors baptized a woman Chuck knew there whose posterity has been very influential in the area.

Tuskegee, believe it or not, is very significant in American History. It was home to Rosa Parks, Lionel Richie, the first African American female gold medalist, and the infamous syphilis study that inspired “Miss Ever’s Boys”.