- Missionary church planters, pastors, and churches
- Christian schoolteachers
- Doctors, nurses, scientists, engineers, farmers, builders, firemen, police and security, mechanics, communications, mailmen, garbage men, grocers, bankers, gas attendants, computer technicians, Walmart clerks, etc. – I greatly benefit by them all and many, many others.
- Four Seasons (we are not completely robbed of spring)
- Diversity of Geography (lava craters; sand dunes; mountains of 12,000 feet; caves; hot springs; waterfalls; lakes)
- Huckleberries
- Sunrises and sunsets over wide open ranges
- Music and theatre and dance
- Starry nights
- Excellent museums