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About Thom & Tresta Neil
We
are the happy parents of eight wonderful children. Thom is from New
Hampshire and served a mission in Italy. I am from New Mexico and
served a mission in Holland. We met while working at a nursing home in
Provo, Utah before my mission. Thom wrote me on my mission and then
married me shortly after I returned. After we had 4 children (in 41/2
years) Thom brought up the idea of homeschooling and I thought he was
absolutely crazy!! After attending a few homeschooling conferences I
decided to try it and we've never looked back.
While Teaching my
children, I gained an education I never received in high school or
college. I feel smart. Now we teach others how to organize their
learning, their papers and how to make notebooks with their children
while building relationships. :)
Thom has likewise always
maintained a love of learning. Several years ago he turned his attention
to public speaking and mentoring. He has had many opportunities to
continue his education studying presentation, body language, and
mentoring. He loves to share these gifts daily. Thom is an enthusiastic,
passionate, loyal husband to Tresta and dad to eight amazing children.
He introduced homeschooling to his family and has encouraged its success
in their home. Enthusiasm for life's good, passion for his family and
trust in the Lord led him through the darkest of valleys including his
son's liver failure and transplantation. His experiences give him
insight into the eyes of those he mentors. With his passion for learning
and continued education from life, he inspires other men, women and
their children to a life full of transformational learning. Thom has
been mentoring and training all ages in Utah for over 10 years on
leadership, personal connection and life transformation.
We've
gained a great amount of knowledge in homeschooling. We are the
co-founders of Keystone Education. Together we see an exciting future
sharing our success, our mishaps and our vision for a truly gospel
centered education in every home.
The Keystone Logo
The letters are created in stone with light and dark shades.
The
symbol between the two words is called a vesica pieces or fish
bladder. It is created with two identical circles overlapping at their
centers and sharing a radius. The shared area has a glowing heart
representing the love of God. This inner shape has many meanings. One
of them is that it represents a doorway. Many cathedrals have half of
this shape over the doorway depicting the way to heaven is through these
doors. The worldly ideas on the outside and the spiritual teachings on
the inside. Another meaning for this shape is The Fall the pulling
away from the whole or God and the wanting to return. This pulling away
creates a need for Jesus Christ and the atonement. Many artists use
this symbol when painting Jesus Christ. Jesus comes through the door to
assist those of us on earth and shows us the way to return back to God
and His love through the door of the vesica pieces.
I chose this
shape and symbol for Keystone Connectionshttp://www.keystoneed.com/ because what we learn is the
only thing we get to take back through the door to heaven. Finding the
best education, knowledge, understanding and intelligence becomes our
greatest quest.