Wednesday, August 20, 2014



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.


 




opefully they can always stay in touch because they have very similar personalities and H

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