Utah Salt Lake
City Temple Square Mission
August 10, 2014
“Music and the Spoken Word” was especially wonderful today
because our prophet, President Monson, was there. However, we were most concerned because he
was brought in with a wheelchair but when he left he was walking with the aid
of his daughter. As the audience stood
he waved to the group and everyone waved back.
Of course, I was in tears. But
“Music and the Spoken Word” was terrific musically today because they had a
guest vocalist, Dallyn Vail Bayles, and he was fabulous. He sang some numbers from Brigadoon and
Carousel. All in all, it was very
uplifting and inspiring.
It doesn’t appear at this moment that the mission has anyone
to replace the Curtis’ or ourselves. So,
we have been personally recruiting senior couples to serve here. We have had several couples come to the
Square who have personally been interested in coming, including the Burtons
from Ogden. Because Julie and Dave
Curtis will be leaving mid-September we desperately need to find someone
soon. Taggart and I will be on our own
during our last transfer and it will be very difficult to be alone.
It was transfer week with several sisters leaving and eleven
new sisters coming to the mission. For
the first time in a long time we had a few sisters come from the USA. As I have mentioned in the past, it is
especially difficult for me to learn the sisters’ names, particularly those
from out of the United States. It was
fun to meet all of them and very sad to say goodbye to wonderful friends who we
probably will never see again.
Taggart still has his pain but he is a trooper and continues
to do his duties. We really hope
eventually he will be back to normal. If
he is sitting he feels better, but the walking about really agitates his
neck. Interestingly, our mission
president’s wife fell and broke her arm and has been out too. It is a joke now who will be the next senior
to come down with an ailment.
As we were at the Tabernacle this week at the organ recital
President and Sister Garvin from Iowa were in the audience. He had been our stake president prior to
President Jeppson. It was fun to see
them and we learned that they moved to Willard most recently to be closer to
their children. It is always exciting to
see someone from the past.
We are still corresponding with Diane. She is still in a difficult situation but
continues to attend church and read the Book of Mormon and pray. We are hopeful that one day she may be a true
believer and give up some of her bad habits.
She means a lot to us and hope that someday we can see her personally,
especially if she gets baptized.
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