Troy sculpted this dragon while attending Huntington Beach, CA high school. He received a art scholarship his junior year. The school board asked if he would let a senior girl have it because "next year you will receive another scholarship". So Troy handed over his scholarship, being the nice guy he is. However, his family moved away before his senior year. A lot of his things have broken and are long gone. This is why he doesn't like doing pottery because it's too fragile. His mother had this dragon for many years. She finally let him take it.
"The importance of having a sense of the sacred is simply this--if one does not appreciate holy things, he will lose them. Absent of feelings of reverence, he will grow increasingly casual in attitude and lax in conduct. He will drift from the moorings that his covenants with God could provide. His feeling of accountability to God will diminish and then be forgotten. Thereafter, he will care only about his own comfort and satisfying his uncontrolled appetites. Finally, he will come to despise sacred things, even God, and then he will despise himself." Elder D. Todd Christofferson
Armor of God
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"We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude." President Thomas S. Monsson
2 comments:
That is a cool dragon Troy.
That is incredible! Troy you are amazingly talented. Truely gifted.
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