It’s
been an interesting month in the Family and Church History Headquarters
Mission. We continue to enjoy working at
the Family History Library.
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| We love the beauty of this place both outside and inside. |
We work with so many wonderful people.
Here are a few of the people we work with on a regular basis.
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| L - Right - Elder Speckart, Sister Sissell, Elder Dan Jones, Elder Packard, Sister Ashby, Elder Brown, & Sister Keeler |
The blue lanyards indicate those who help guests with their questions on researching their family tree.
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| Elder Jones & Sister Cherneski |
Those on
the rotating special assignments get the “ASK ME” badges. Elder Jones, who serves in Access Services, stopped to greet Sister Cherneski who was serving as "Monitor".
Missionaries with red lanyards help
with finding the books and microfilms on our floor. Their Zone is called Access Services.
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| Sister & Elder Nicholes, Elder Jones, & Elder Franklin |
Yes,
we all work HARD helping guests on the International floor (B-1), and in between
guests we do our own personal research.
But we have fun too. Here’s the
spread of GOODIES at our most recent monthly luncheon!
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| It was VERY yummy! |
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| Naomi's Birthday Surprise |
And there’s always a bit of fun too. One of the full-time professional genealogists got her office decorated
for her birthday! Can you tell she does Danish research? Note the flag – white cross on a red
background – made from the streamers in the doorway.
We
especially like it when friends and family come to visit us. We had a delightful visit from our grandsons
Brenton and Nathan Ellis who got a tour from G’ma of some of the sights before
we all had lunch together. We stopped for
a group picture in the Family Search Center in the Joseph Smith Memorial
Building (Nathan on the left, Brenton on the right).
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| Grandsons Nathan & Brenton Ellis sit around Grandma Dolberg |
One
day in late July we took a day’s leave of absence to attend the Orem funeral of
Leonard (Len) Ellis, the father of our son-in-law David Ellis. Glen and Len grew up in the same ward in
Turlock, CA during Glen’s teenage years.
Our grandson, Brenton, sang a beautiful solo at the funeral.
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| Brenton practicing before funeral |
(This shot was taken during the
rehearsal.) Although it was a sad
occasion, it was uplifting to know that our son-in-law David, his mother, and
his 4 siblings will be together again in the eternities.
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| Laurel, Brenton, David, & Nathan Ellis |
Len’s grave was right beside the grave of our grandson, Jonathan Ellis,
who passed away just over a year ago.
Here is Jonny’s family at his grave: Laurel, Brenton, David, and Nathan.
Of
course we always enjoy the many events in and around Temple Square in Salt Lake
City. Often we get to attend Music
and the Spoken Word with the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple
Square.
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| Each live performance of Music & the Spoken Word seems always to be better than the last. Always WONDERFUL! |
Currently it’s being held in
the Conference Center (seats 21,000) since summer crowds are too big for the
Tabernacle, which only seats around 4,000 guests.
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| Flowers & Elder Dolberg |
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| Flowers & Temple - which shines brighter? |
few
pictures of them!
We just love walking in the
gardens!
Quite amazingly
enough, although it is only
August, the Temple Square grounds
crews are already
beginning the huge task of putting up the Christmas lights on the trees on
Temple Square!
Two
evenings a week during the summer there are outdoor concerts held at the nearby
Brigham Young Park. It’s a beautiful
location with gardens, a waterwheel
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| Orig. wheel used by Brigham Young farm mill for grinding |
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| Gardens are complete with irrigation system |
and a series of statues which show how
the pioneers worked their gardens. One evening we went to
see a concert with our fellow B-1 missionaries Kent and Sondra Pocock.
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| Elder & Sister Dolberg just love Sister & Elder Pocock. |
The
performers that evening were a group of about 20 youth violinists, ages
5-18. They were amazingly good.
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| We had choice seating on a bench up on the edge of the park in the shade with a view of all. The music was good too. |
Another
thing we like to do
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| One of the elegant old homes in SLC |
is to walk in the “Avenues”
– the hillside streets just
northeast of Temple Square,
where a lot of the older, elegant homes are found.
We
are currently taking a one-week leave of absence from the mission while Glen
recovers from some minor surgery. He’s
doing as well as can be expected, and we anticipate being able to return to our
duties on Monday, Aug. 24. When we
arrived at our home in Herriman, where he would be recuperating, we discovered
that the Homeowner’s Assoc. was in the process of having our house repainted,
and it now has a blue accent instead of green.
We’re not sure how that happened, but we’re very happy about
it!
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| 5163 W. Fortrose Drive in Herriman, Utah - now that it's blue, it looks like a brand new house! We love it. |
We
have a new mission presidency, President Tate and his counselors Pres. Oliver
and Pres. Larson, and they have issued all of us missionaries a challenge
to read the Book of Mormon THREE times in the next three months, each time
looking for different things, and marking them.
Our brief “leave of absence” will give us more time to spend on some of
this reading, which takes about an hour or more a day to complete!
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| L to R - 1st C. Pres. & Sister Oliver, Miss. Pres. & Sister Tate, 2nd. C. Pres. & Sister Larson |
We’re
still happy in our mission and
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| Ah! True love is GRAND! |
we still love each other. Recently some
young people who were involved
in a
photo scavenger hunt asked us
to help them. They needed a picture
of a couple kissing, a
couple who had
been married 40 years or more.
Since
we've been married now over 45 years, we happily complied.
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