Now after 4 months of constant WORK,
it now feels more like a mission.
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| The final flower fling of beauty before replacement |
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| We miss these beauties |
We have had a cold, late spring with even a bit of snow as
you saw in our last post. The spring
flowers on Temple Square, which have been so gorgeous, are gone
now, and the flower beds have been newly planted with summer annuals.
We were fascinated to learn that the ground workers just
de-pot and toss the new plants onto the flower beds and then “volunteers” from
various local wards (church congregations) come and plant them into the beds. In a few weeks they should look lovely again
with the summer annuals in full bloom! We are also enjoying the perennials such as
iris and peonies which add to the beauty.
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| One Sunday we walked home from Church with our friends, Elder & Sister Seiter. |
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| These peonies are gorgeous |
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| This flower bed is newly replanted. |
The Family History Library is getting more crowded all the
time, and large groups of tourists from all over the world are seen touring
Temple Square, some of them even coming into the library. We hear that summer can be
SUPER-crowded. We’re happy when some of
the visitors to the FHL are friends of ours who drop by for a visit, and hope
that any of you who are in Salt Lake City will drop by the B-1 International Floor
of the Family History Library to see us.
Hopefully it won’t be on our days off - i.e. not when we gone. We have every other Saturday off and every
other Thursday. We also work the late shift from 1:00 to 9:00 p.m. for 2-3 days
a week on the week we have Saturday off.
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| This our main work place. |
We
enjoy working with “guests” and with our fellow
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| Often guests need help reading the German on the microfilms stored in these cabinets. There are over 2 million films |
Bonnie also is scheduled for several hours
two days a week at the Elijah Choir office where she busily tries to keep up
with the various schedules and lists, and prepares the music to direct the
choir. Glen is her “secretary” and as
such spends a couple of hours/week in the office assisting her. In May she officially began to direct the
choir and so far it’s gone fairly well. The
choir sings each Monday morning (7:30 a.m., with a 6:20 a.m. rehearsal) for the
Mission Devotional, and also once a
month for a two-day Mission Conference.
The first time she directed the choir at our weekly devotional she was
so nervous that she forgot to have the choir stand up!!
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| It's a BIG choir & takes a lot of time!Can you spot us? Bonnie is on the left and Glen is on the right. |
Fortunately, they all stood up without her
direction. We have around 70-80 choir
members who perform regularly, so it’s fun for her to direct such a large
group. All of the women in the choir are
“seniors” (65-80 yrs) while about 75% of the men are young elders (18-25 yrs) who
form part of our mission. So, it’s an
interesting mix. We only have one hour-long rehearsal/week, but fortunately,
many of the singers are good sight-readers since we perform 5-6 different
numbers/month.
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| Thomas S. Monson, our Church Prophet & President, at the beginning of his professional work career was once the director of this giant facility. |
During our free time, we have had a few outings lately. In late April our “social group” (group of 25
or so missionaries that we trained with) went on a tour of the 5-acre LDS Church
Printing Facility where we saw the many different printing presses that print
church materials, from small fliers to the huge presses that print the
scriptures and church magazines.
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| Our Social Group really enjoyed this 2.5 hour tour. |
Books
are also bound there as well, including the scriptures. Most interesting was watching how the tabs
for the scriptures are created by hand.
They even have a machine that makes the plastic sacrament cups.
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| The speed of printing was fantastic. Whole books in seconds. |
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| The only process still done by hand |
We went to the missionary “farewell” talks for Bonnie’s
cousin Diana Davies Halliday and her husband Paul in Farmington. They are now serving in the North Dakota
Mission. Diana is the twin sister of Bishop Dean Davies, 2nd
counselor in the Presiding Bishopric. He was out of town on church business,
but we enjoyed visiting with his wife Darla and others of Bonnie’s Davies
cousins at the open house afterwards!
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| The Sacrament Mtg. was inspiring and being with family made it a SUPER occasion. |
We went to join the Ellis Family (our daughter Emilee’s
family) at the Mt. Timpanogas Temple one Saturday, where our son-in-law David
did the temple work for our grandson Jonathan, who passed away a year ago. We enjoyed a very happy day with their whole family.
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| Dedicated in 1996 the Mt. Timpinogos Temple stands near the 11,000 ft. high mountain itself in American Fork, Utah near where our Emilee's family has their home in Cedar Hills, Utah. |
We enjoyed a May trip to Payson, Utah with our mission
“social group” for the open house of the new Payson Temple which will be
dedicated soon. What a magnificent
temple, especially inside! We encourage
all of you to participate in any temple open house that is near to you. They are open to ALL prior to the
dedication.
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| L to R - the Carlsons, the Dolbergs, the Seiters, the Smiths, & the Hatches |
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| Although we saw it during the day, here is a night-time view. We were very impressed |
We try to come home to Herriman on our days off
(P-days or preparation days) to shop, do laundry, and relax. We enjoy the
opportunity to “sleep in our own bed” and to enjoy the comforts of “home.” We have recently fixed up our basement family
room, which previously was our son Daniel’s painting studio. Now that he no longer is using it, we have
added a double recliner and a new TV.
Our apartment in SLC doesn’t have internet, so
we often do our own “personal family history research” while at home in
Herriman, though we can also do it in the FHL when we’re not busy helping
guests. We are working on both sides of
Glen’s family currently, and finding much success. We’ve been “finding” new members of the
family, and adding pictures
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| Our cozy little TV room |
and stories about our ancestors to our Family Tree.
All of our family can review obituaries,
pictures, and other data about "their (our) family" ancestors by
logging into familysearch.org. Here is a
recently discovered picture of two great-aunts on Glen's mother's side of the
family
>>>> The photo was probably taken around 1910. Mella Nora Fisher (1885-1956) and her younger sister, Clara Belle Fisher (1887-1933), Glen's grandfather Fisher's two youngest sisters.
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