Good Home Teaching Story

    Before I get to the Home Teaching story I want to repeat what happened at a recent 50th year High School reunion.  A man and a woman at the reunion were debate partners 50 years ago.  After high school, they went their separate ways marrying different people.  By this time, he was widower and she was a widow.

So they sat at the same table during the dinner.  They enjoyed recalling all the good times they had in high school.  As the dinner was ending, the man thought, "I am lonely; she seems lonely.  I think I will ask her to marry me. "

He said, "Let's get married!"

She said, "That's a great idea."

They were both excited, but had to go back to their separate places for the night.

He woke up the next morning.  He realized that he had asked her to marry last night, but he could not remember if she said yes or no.  Embarrassed, he called her and said,

"Last night when I asked you marry me, did you say yes or no?'    
                                                                                                                                                                     She answered, "I am so glad you called.  I knew last night someone had asked me to marry, but I could not remember who it was."                                                                                                                                  
No to a more serious story.  Dick Flint was one of my housemate when I was a Freshman at BYU.  Later when Elena and I became engaged, we ran into Dick several times.  Both Elena and I knew Dick independent of each other.  We married, move back east.  I did not see Dick for over 45 years.                                        
About 3 years ago, I learned that Dick lived one block away from us.  He and wife attended the other ward that meets in our chapel.  We had been together for seven years and had never seen the other.  Dick and his wife, Phyllis and Elena and I went out for desert about 4 times.  I also had lunch with him a couple of times.  So it was nice to get reacquainted.

Last week Dick died of cancer.  His funeral was this morning.  His son told the following story.

When Dick and family lived in California, Dick home taught a family.  The family did not attend church.  The parents were not interested  in attending church, but had no objection to Dick taking their children to church.  So Dick brought 4 children to meetings each Sunday.  All 4 children married in the temple.  All 4 were in attendance at today's funeral.  One of the children married Dick's son.  That was a home teaching success.                                                              
            






 

We are in Meridian

Elena and I arrived at the Boise last night at 8PM.  David Carmack picked us up and took us to their home where four of us watched the last half of the Celtic / Laker game.  The result was sad.

This morning Becci loaned us her car.  We drove to Merlyn's.  Merlyn has created great gardens and he extended his trails on his property.  Amylynn and family were there.

We then arrived at Don and Carolyn's.  LouAnn has been here since the death and will stay a few more days.  Jana's and Tyson's baby is 10 days overdue.  Don and Carolyn seem to be taking Vicki's death OK.  Carolyn is better than when the last time we saw her.  Her improvement is probably due to all the attentive care that Vicki and daughter, Emily, gave her.

Daniel and Brian Dowdle just arrived with one of their small boys.

Ron and Laurene will be here soon.  They had planned on coming with Jennifer and Wynn, but Wynn broke his arem yesterday.

I will keep you informed.

Wayne  

Vickki Cornell Owens

Vickki Cornell Owens, fourth child of Don and Carolyn Cornell, was having trouble recovering from some surgery a few weeks ago.  Nevertheless, she was well enough to travel to her parents home yesterday.  She went there to help with her mother, Carolyn's, health problems.  She was laughing at lunch and then went to take a nap.  Don went on to check on her a while later, and she had died.  

Vickki is survived by her husband, Glen Owens.  Three adult children are living at home.  The date for the funeral has not been set.  Elena and I will likely attend.  Please say prayers for Vickki's parents and family.

Kailin's graduation.

We just attended Kailin Chang's graduation from Juanita High School.  About 340 graduated.  Attendees were Elena, Ed, Tara, and Kailin's boyfriend, Michael.  Michael is handsome 6 foot tall boy that Kailin meet in All State band.  The students and the audience were enthusiastic to say the least.  Kailin appeared very happy.

First Post on Blogger

I am starting a new blog. Here is my first entry. We (Elena and I) are in Kirkland, Washington to see our granddaughter, Kailin's, graduation.