The FHC is now officially closed for three weeks. I hope we can keep busy and accomplish much while it is closed. We need to clean our carpets and pick out and possibly get a new bathtub put in. The one we have is leaking down between the tub and the wall and Karl has put a wastebasket down stairs to catch the drips from it. I hope we can get that taken care of during that time. We also need to get some vertical blinds in the living room. We looked into getting some right after the first of the year. We first went to Home Depot and couldn’t get anyone to wait on us. After almost 15 minutes after someone told us that they would get someone to wait on us, we left and went to LOWE’S. We had the same experience there. However, we didn’t wait quite so long there. Tomorrow I need to call the Blind Man to have him come out and make an estimate. Our windows are not the conventional kind so they will have to be custom made. There are two or three places in the yellow pages that all give free estimates. I may call them all….who knows? Richard and Téa are supposed to get here next week and be here and in the area for about two weeks. It is nice that we won’t have to work around the center to do things with them. And we need to go to Utah some time to see our children, grandchildren and my mother also. We were talking about going this week but Mama told me last week that there is a Hurst Reunion on June 20 there in Orem and with gas sooo expensive, we may wait and go then. I'll call Richard tonight and see what their plans are...I hope they know or will know soon.
Last Wednesday I helped four different people at FHC. One was my husband, Karl; another was a new missionary who has worked in genealogy for many years. She asked me for help on the Temple Ready program. I was able to give it to her. The other two were patrons who came in. When I didn’t know something I knew who to ask which is the thing to do. The first thing I asked on (a patron had come in and put her own file thro’ Temple Ready herself but didn’t print out the first sheet that gives us the numbers we need to record of the ordinances that need to be done.) I was able to help someone else later without having to ask anyone else. It made me feel good that I was able to remember it. The second patron that I helped after helping her find out that her grandmother, born in Brazil, had had her temple work done for her, I helped her get registered for familysearch.org so she find these things out at home. The message that came back suggested that she had all ready registered. She couldn’t remember doing so; sp I went and got Brother Mondock. He has the authority to get into the system and see if she had registered before. She had done and he was able to show her what her username had been and how to retrieve her password. I later helped Karl retrieve his password since he had put it in wrong and wasn’t sure about it. Karl was able to finally get thro’ his PAF file and got it all cleaned up so we ran it thro’ Temple Ready Update files. He only got about six updates on that so the next step is to use PAF Insight and get the ordinances from there. After that then you can use either Family Searcher or just go to the IIGI at FamilySearch..org and find out what other work has been done. By doing this we prevent duplication of the work. I found out last week why I didn’t feel anything when Johannes Rufener the son was baptized. His work had already been done. I had checked it before but the system was being worked on in SLC and it didn’t come thro’ as already having been done so it was done again. Karl went thro’ for his endowment a week ago. And it had been done too. He could have gone thro’ for Samuel, whose work hasn’t been done. He will have to wait for three more weeks. The temple is closed the same three weeks as the FHC is. That is disappointing to me. It has been harder to get to the temple since we have been spending two and three days at FHC. We did intiatory work last Tuesday instead of going thro’ a session or Samuel’s work would be done. He had been baptized many years ago but no endowment could be found. We had a summer picnic Friday afternoon with the people who work at FHC. They had hot dogs, fancy ones, and salads and cookies. This counted for our zone meeting for both June and July. Sister Hendricks told us Wednesday that we needed to register as consultants on FamilySearch.org by the end of the month. We will be helping to teach people about the new program that will be coming out later this year. She said that it is already being used in one temple district in Utah. It is where people will be able to make their own cards to take names to the temple. They will no longer have to go the FHC and get a floppy disk and take it to the temple to have their cards run off. There is also supposed to be a better system to prevent duplication. It sounds like a wonderful program. I am excited to learn it and be able to teach others about it.
I went to see Dr. Baird a couple of weeks ago for my annual check up since it has been two years since by bariatric surgery. His scales were broken so I couldn’t get a weight or print out of my fat %, or muscle % etc. He asked what I had weighed that morning. I told him 160#. I am up 20# from my low. I told him that I had gained 12 # muscle since then and that had to count for something. He agreed but said that some of it had to be fat too. I agreed with that too. He said he wanted me to get down to a BMI (body mass index) of 25. I was only down to 26 when I was 20# lighter. I am now @ 29. He suggested that I see the dietician, Sandy with the New U program. So I went to see her a week later. She told me that everyone bottoms out even and even if they are doing everything right, they gain 10-20#. She took my weight and I had gained 13# muscle from my all time low. Since muscle weighs more than fat and since I still fit into my clothes, she said that I’m doing just fine and have nothing to worry about. BUT I shouldn’t go above where I am now. I should have a five # margin between 157 # and 162 # and not gain above that. I have lost four # from last Sunday. But, I have really been exercising too. We exercised six days last week. Did water aerobics four times and did the walking class two days. I am encouraged that I have lost that little bit. Some of it is water since I went off my Actos, one of my diabetic pills, last Sunday. My feet have been swelling more and someone told me that he had lost 20# after going off of it. I called and talked at the nurse at Rocky Mountain Diabetes Center and told her I had gone off of it and asked her to tell the doctor and if he didn’t like the idea that I would like him to call me. He didn’t so….I can imagine him saying, “We’ll just wait and see what her next A1c is.” We go in again next month on the 24th. My fasting blood sugars have been between 81-96. I hope it works out OK. I’m still taking 500 mg metformin for diabetes twice a day. I’d rather go back to 1000 twice a day instead of going back on the Actos. Time will tell.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
A Good Week @ FHC
Saturday, I helped my first real patron at the FHC. Elder Cornwall, our supervisor, had told me that morning that if anyone came in that needed help he wanted me to help them. He said, “You know as much as anyone else here and will do fine.” I told him that it wasn’t very comforting to me if no one knew more than I did. He reiterated what he said before then added, “We work by the Spirit here and the Lord will bless you.” From 1:00 to 3:00 I was supposed to be at the desk, greeting patrons as they come in, answering the phone, taking papers out of the printer, etc. About 1:10 a man came in and as he signed in I asked him if he needed any help. He said not right away but he may later. Elder Cornwall was right there and heard him say that. He told me that if he came and requested help, that he would take over the desk so I could help him. A few minutes later the man came back and said that he needed some help after all. I went over to where he had plugged his lap top computer in. He wanted to make ged.com files of five different families, place them on a temple submission disk so he could take them to the temple to have their work done. I told him how he to go into Temple Ready for Windows on his PAF. I told him how to collect each family individually. He was trying to transfer these to his thumb drive he had plugged into his lap top. We had collected all five families and he was checking the work and one time it took only three of a family of six and the next time took only one person who wasn’t even in that family altho’ she had the same last name. I went and got help. Since this was the first time that I had actually helped someone and altho’ I had done temple ready for window twice for my own ancestors, I wasn’t really sure if I had done everything right. The two missionaries that I consulted didn’t know what it wasn’t transferring right either and didn’t know what to do. I suggested transferring his PAF file on his thumb drive so we could plug it into one of our computers. He wasn’t sure if his thumb drive was big enough to hold all of it. So Sister Carl, went and got one of hers and he used that to transfer it. We collected the families he wanted, (I learned that you can select one family and then another and another without clicking OK each time.) I was able to help him with Sister Carl’s help and we also enlisted Elder Higgins to help us figure out what cities were in England and which were in Wales. Anyway, it was 3:15 by the time we finished with him. I felt really good about it all.
I gave the thought and prayer both June 2 and June 6. The entry about Arnold Stevens I gave on the June 2 and the one about Anson Call I gave on the 6th. I tho’t I would put them in my blog to keep a record of what I gave.
In one of the classes we learned how to Google people. I googled some of my ancestors and would like to tell you about one of them. I have excerpts from his autobiography. In places I will use the word “darn” because I don’t use the kind of language that was quoted here.
Anson Call is my great, great, grandfather. He was born 13 May1810 in Vermont. He moved to George County Ohio when he was seven years old. In his small autobiography he states, "I was sent to school in early life but after removing to Ohio there were but little opportunities for schools owing to the newness of country." (Call, Anson, "Autobiography of Anson Call", p. 1). The autobiography contains Anson's conversion story from his personal journal:
Their preaching created much excitement in our town but had little effect for nearly three years. I[t] (sp?) was a constant annoyance to my feelings. I became dissatisfied with all denominations and myself. In the Elders passing through our country they frequently stopped at my house, and in discussing with them upon the principles of the gospel they would cuff me about like an old pair of boots. I came to the conclusion that the reason of my being handled so easy was because I did not understand the Bible and the Book of Mormon. I resolved to prepare myself for the conflict by investigating the two books. I accordingly furnished myself with the Book of Mormon. I then commenced the Book of Mormon and the Bible. Compared the two and read my Bible from Genesis right through, praying and searching diligently for six months. When I finished the two books I became a firm believer in the Book of Mormon. I was then taught by the Spirit to obey the principles of the gospel. My feelings were not known by any but my wife (Who was Mary Flint. I was proud and haughty and to obey the gospel was worse than death. I labored under those feelings for three months, becoming at times almost insane. To be called a Mormon, I thought, was more than I could endure. I lamented that my lot was cast in this dispensation. My dreams and my meditations made me miserable. I at last covenanted before the Lord that if he would give me confidence to face the world in Mormonism I would be baptized for the remission of my sins; before I arose from my knees the horrors of my mind were cleared; I feared no man, no set of men. The next day I went to the Methodist meeting and declared unto them the truth of Mormonism. I told them I should obey it as soon as I could get to Kirtland. I accordingly went immediately there and was baptized by William Smith, Joseph's brother. My wife accompanied me. I was confirmed in the Kirtland Temple by David Whitmer . . . After moving to Kirtland I was ordained to the Quorum of Seventies in February, 1836 by Zera Pulsipher and Henry Herriman. (Call, pp. 2-3)
He recorded in his journal:
I have forgotten to say that shortly after I joined the Church I was administered to for my stammering of speech from which I was reviened (sp?) [relieved?] (Call, p. 5)
On the 14th of July, 1843, with quite a number of his (Joseph Smith brethren, he (Joe) crossed the Mississippi River to the town of Montrose to be present at the installment of the Masonic lodge of the 'rising sun, A block school house had been prepared with shade in front, under which a barrel of ice water. Judge George Adams was the highest Masonic author in the state of Illinois and had been sent there to organize this lodge He (Joe), Hyrum Smith and J.C. Bennett, being high masons, went into the house to perform some ceremonies which the others were not entitled to witness. These, including Joseph Smith remained under the bowery. Jose] as he was tasting of the cold water, warned the brethren not to be fret with it. With the tumbler still in his hand he prophesied that the Saint would yet go to the Rocky Mountains; and, said he, 'this water tastes much like that of the crystal streams that are running from the snow capped mountains' we will 1st Mr. Call describe (sic) this prophetic scene: I had before seen him in a vision and now saw while he was talking his countenance changed to white: not the deadly white of a bloodless face, but a living brilliant white. He seemed absorbed in gazing at something at a great distance and said, 'I am gazing upon the valleys of those mountains'. This was followed by a vivid description of the scenery of these mountains as I have since become acquainted with it. Pointing to Shadrach Roundy and others, he said, 'There are some men here who shall do a great work in that land.' Pointing to me he said, 'There is Anson, he shall go and shall assist in building cities from one end of that country to the other, and you' rather extending the idea to all those he had spoken of, 'shall perform as great a work as has been done by man, so that the nation of the earth shall be astonished and many of them will be gathered in that land and assist in building cities and temples, and Israel shall be made to rejoiced'.
"It is impossible to represent in words this scene which is still vivid in my mind, of the grandeur of Joseph's appearance, his beautiful descriptions of this land and his wonderful prophetic utterances as they emanated from the glorious inspirations that over shadowed him. There was a force and power in his exclamations of which the following is but a faint echo. 'Oh the beauty of those snow capped mountains. The cool refreshing streams that are running down through those mountains gorges' Then gazing in another direction, as if there was a change and locality; 'oh the scenes that this people will pass through' The dead that will lay between here and there.' Then turning in another direction as if the scene had again changed: 'Oh the apostasy that will take place before my brethren reach that land'. But he continued, 'the Priesthood shall prevail over all it's enemies, triumph over the devil and be established upon the earth never more to be thrown down.' He then charged us with great force and power, to be faithful in these things that had been and ...??? Anson and his wife and children faced many hardships thro’ the trials of Ohio and Missouri and Illinois. His life was threatened many times and guns pointed in his face and the mobber threatening to shoot him where he stood but his life was preserved and he came to the Salt Lake Valley and as Joseph Smith prophesied helped to build and establish many cities throughout Utah, Wyoming and Arizona.
He married my great great grandmother Ann Maraih Bowen 15 Apr 1851 after he had already experienced many hardships and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. She was the second of six wives.
Arnold was the son of Jonathan Stevens and Lucy Adams; he was born 24 August 1802. He was the younges of their five sons. Arnold Stevens and his wife Lois Coon joined the LDS Church in 1835 in Leeds County, Ontario, Canada. In 1837 they joined the Saints in their moving and troubles. There were six daughters. As far as is known, Arnold was the only one of his father’s family to join the LDS Church. Lucy Adams, mother of Arnold joined with her son and his wife. Lucy Adams Stevens died 22 March 1845 in Montrose, Iowa across the Mississippi River from Nauvoo, Illinois.
Arnold Stevens’ name is given as one who pledged himself to assist the poor Saints to move to Missouri. He was a guard in Nauvoo the night the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum were killed.
Arnold Stevens had his endowments in the Nauvoo Temple 28 January 1846. His wife had her endowments 6 February 1846. They were not sealed to each other at that time. It was done later.
The family started across the plains with the Saints. At Council Bllufffs, Arnold enlisted in the Mormon Battalion as a 1st corporal in Company D, with Nelson Higgins, captain. He went to Pueblo with the sick. There he worked to help build houses to shelter them from the cold during the winter. On March 28 Arnold Stevens was handling a wild mule when he was dragged over some logs and hurt internally. He lingered from the 21st to the 26th of March, when a blood vessel burst and suffocated him. (I suspect he died of a ruptured spleen…that is what it sounds like it could be anyway.) He was dressed in his robes and neatly laid away in his coffin, made of what is called puncheons of cottonwood. (These are slabs split off like staves.)
His wife drove her own team to Winter Quarters, where with other soldier’s wives, she endured the hardships common to those times. Her only home was a wagon box. In the spring, she learned of her husband’s death. Being left with three children, without a home or means of support, she married Nathaniel Jordon some time in 1847. Before Arnold died, he and his wife had lost four children, Byron, Sabra Elizabeth, Arnold, and Erastus. Another daughter Rachel Matilda died 20 December 1849. His daughter, Lois Ann Stevens lived to marry Lycurgus Wilson and is my great, great grandmother.
I am so thankful for what my ancestors went thro’ that I could be born a member of the church in Utah and be raised in the Church.
I gave the thought and prayer both June 2 and June 6. The entry about Arnold Stevens I gave on the June 2 and the one about Anson Call I gave on the 6th. I tho’t I would put them in my blog to keep a record of what I gave.
In one of the classes we learned how to Google people. I googled some of my ancestors and would like to tell you about one of them. I have excerpts from his autobiography. In places I will use the word “darn” because I don’t use the kind of language that was quoted here.
Anson Call is my great, great, grandfather. He was born 13 May1810 in Vermont. He moved to George County Ohio when he was seven years old. In his small autobiography he states, "I was sent to school in early life but after removing to Ohio there were but little opportunities for schools owing to the newness of country." (Call, Anson, "Autobiography of Anson Call", p. 1). The autobiography contains Anson's conversion story from his personal journal:
Their preaching created much excitement in our town but had little effect for nearly three years. I[t] (sp?) was a constant annoyance to my feelings. I became dissatisfied with all denominations and myself. In the Elders passing through our country they frequently stopped at my house, and in discussing with them upon the principles of the gospel they would cuff me about like an old pair of boots. I came to the conclusion that the reason of my being handled so easy was because I did not understand the Bible and the Book of Mormon. I resolved to prepare myself for the conflict by investigating the two books. I accordingly furnished myself with the Book of Mormon. I then commenced the Book of Mormon and the Bible. Compared the two and read my Bible from Genesis right through, praying and searching diligently for six months. When I finished the two books I became a firm believer in the Book of Mormon. I was then taught by the Spirit to obey the principles of the gospel. My feelings were not known by any but my wife (Who was Mary Flint. I was proud and haughty and to obey the gospel was worse than death. I labored under those feelings for three months, becoming at times almost insane. To be called a Mormon, I thought, was more than I could endure. I lamented that my lot was cast in this dispensation. My dreams and my meditations made me miserable. I at last covenanted before the Lord that if he would give me confidence to face the world in Mormonism I would be baptized for the remission of my sins; before I arose from my knees the horrors of my mind were cleared; I feared no man, no set of men. The next day I went to the Methodist meeting and declared unto them the truth of Mormonism. I told them I should obey it as soon as I could get to Kirtland. I accordingly went immediately there and was baptized by William Smith, Joseph's brother. My wife accompanied me. I was confirmed in the Kirtland Temple by David Whitmer . . . After moving to Kirtland I was ordained to the Quorum of Seventies in February, 1836 by Zera Pulsipher and Henry Herriman. (Call, pp. 2-3)
He recorded in his journal:
I have forgotten to say that shortly after I joined the Church I was administered to for my stammering of speech from which I was reviened (sp?) [relieved?] (Call, p. 5)
On the 14th of July, 1843, with quite a number of his (Joseph Smith brethren, he (Joe) crossed the Mississippi River to the town of Montrose to be present at the installment of the Masonic lodge of the 'rising sun, A block school house had been prepared with shade in front, under which a barrel of ice water. Judge George Adams was the highest Masonic author in the state of Illinois and had been sent there to organize this lodge He (Joe), Hyrum Smith and J.C. Bennett, being high masons, went into the house to perform some ceremonies which the others were not entitled to witness. These, including Joseph Smith remained under the bowery. Jose] as he was tasting of the cold water, warned the brethren not to be fret with it. With the tumbler still in his hand he prophesied that the Saint would yet go to the Rocky Mountains; and, said he, 'this water tastes much like that of the crystal streams that are running from the snow capped mountains' we will 1st Mr. Call describe (sic) this prophetic scene: I had before seen him in a vision and now saw while he was talking his countenance changed to white: not the deadly white of a bloodless face, but a living brilliant white. He seemed absorbed in gazing at something at a great distance and said, 'I am gazing upon the valleys of those mountains'. This was followed by a vivid description of the scenery of these mountains as I have since become acquainted with it. Pointing to Shadrach Roundy and others, he said, 'There are some men here who shall do a great work in that land.' Pointing to me he said, 'There is Anson, he shall go and shall assist in building cities from one end of that country to the other, and you' rather extending the idea to all those he had spoken of, 'shall perform as great a work as has been done by man, so that the nation of the earth shall be astonished and many of them will be gathered in that land and assist in building cities and temples, and Israel shall be made to rejoiced'.
"It is impossible to represent in words this scene which is still vivid in my mind, of the grandeur of Joseph's appearance, his beautiful descriptions of this land and his wonderful prophetic utterances as they emanated from the glorious inspirations that over shadowed him. There was a force and power in his exclamations of which the following is but a faint echo. 'Oh the beauty of those snow capped mountains. The cool refreshing streams that are running down through those mountains gorges' Then gazing in another direction, as if there was a change and locality; 'oh the scenes that this people will pass through' The dead that will lay between here and there.' Then turning in another direction as if the scene had again changed: 'Oh the apostasy that will take place before my brethren reach that land'. But he continued, 'the Priesthood shall prevail over all it's enemies, triumph over the devil and be established upon the earth never more to be thrown down.' He then charged us with great force and power, to be faithful in these things that had been and ...??? Anson and his wife and children faced many hardships thro’ the trials of Ohio and Missouri and Illinois. His life was threatened many times and guns pointed in his face and the mobber threatening to shoot him where he stood but his life was preserved and he came to the Salt Lake Valley and as Joseph Smith prophesied helped to build and establish many cities throughout Utah, Wyoming and Arizona.
He married my great great grandmother Ann Maraih Bowen 15 Apr 1851 after he had already experienced many hardships and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. She was the second of six wives.
Arnold was the son of Jonathan Stevens and Lucy Adams; he was born 24 August 1802. He was the younges of their five sons. Arnold Stevens and his wife Lois Coon joined the LDS Church in 1835 in Leeds County, Ontario, Canada. In 1837 they joined the Saints in their moving and troubles. There were six daughters. As far as is known, Arnold was the only one of his father’s family to join the LDS Church. Lucy Adams, mother of Arnold joined with her son and his wife. Lucy Adams Stevens died 22 March 1845 in Montrose, Iowa across the Mississippi River from Nauvoo, Illinois.
Arnold Stevens’ name is given as one who pledged himself to assist the poor Saints to move to Missouri. He was a guard in Nauvoo the night the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum were killed.
Arnold Stevens had his endowments in the Nauvoo Temple 28 January 1846. His wife had her endowments 6 February 1846. They were not sealed to each other at that time. It was done later.
The family started across the plains with the Saints. At Council Bllufffs, Arnold enlisted in the Mormon Battalion as a 1st corporal in Company D, with Nelson Higgins, captain. He went to Pueblo with the sick. There he worked to help build houses to shelter them from the cold during the winter. On March 28 Arnold Stevens was handling a wild mule when he was dragged over some logs and hurt internally. He lingered from the 21st to the 26th of March, when a blood vessel burst and suffocated him. (I suspect he died of a ruptured spleen…that is what it sounds like it could be anyway.) He was dressed in his robes and neatly laid away in his coffin, made of what is called puncheons of cottonwood. (These are slabs split off like staves.)
His wife drove her own team to Winter Quarters, where with other soldier’s wives, she endured the hardships common to those times. Her only home was a wagon box. In the spring, she learned of her husband’s death. Being left with three children, without a home or means of support, she married Nathaniel Jordon some time in 1847. Before Arnold died, he and his wife had lost four children, Byron, Sabra Elizabeth, Arnold, and Erastus. Another daughter Rachel Matilda died 20 December 1849. His daughter, Lois Ann Stevens lived to marry Lycurgus Wilson and is my great, great grandmother.
I am so thankful for what my ancestors went thro’ that I could be born a member of the church in Utah and be raised in the Church.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
It's now June!
Last week was our seventh week as Service Missionaries. We have now completed our six weeks training period so no longer have to go to the FHC on Mondays. Since it was Memorial Day the FHC wasn’t open anyway. I stayed home all day long for the first time in months! I remember when my first three children were very little, when we couldn’t take Karen anywhere because she was so susceptible because of her heart, that I stayed home day after day after day hardly ever going anywhere. I went to Sacrament meeting in the evening with three-year-old Bryan, while my sweetheart stayed home with Karen less than a year old and Michael who was two. I went to mutual for 15 minutes on Tuesday evening to play for the opening exercises then came home. That was all I went out for a whole year! Now it is a treat to stay home all day long. I can remember thinking, “Will these three ever grow up?” Well, it didn’t take very long; it seems like I just turned around three times and they had children of their own. Pm Wednesday evening I learned how to use PAF Insight to find LDS ordinances that have been done for those on my program after running my PAF program thro’ the Temple Ready update program that the center has. I did this after I had spent hours and hours “cleaning” up my program and getting rid of duplicate individuals, etc. I have 79 pages of individuals with incomplete ordinances. I’m now on page 22. I downloaded the program for $25 so I could use it at home. I do a little in my spare time. I print off a page or two at a time and cross them off as I find their ordinances. If I don’t find any, then I go to FamilySearch.org and see if I can find them. Most of them I do but there are six or seven total so far that I haven’t found any on. Yesterday, I found one man who was born in 1856 who died approximately 1915 who’s endowment was done in 1920 for him. But I couldn’t find a baptism for him anywhere. I spent a couple of hours going on the old DOS IGI they have there at the center, and going thro’ eight microfilm looking at family group sheets that had been turned in. I found a Robert Chollet born in France but I was looking for a Jules Albert Chollet born in Switzerland. I didn’t find anything so since I asked three of the missionaries there if his baptism had to be on record, and I was told that yes it did, we will have to have that one done. I now know how to use the microfilm machines very well and could show someone else how to do it. I gained that much from that experience.
Last Wednesday evening when my sweetheart tried to call his mother about 9:50 pm to talk to her for the first time that day, she didn’t answer. He mentioned he couldn’t imagine where she was; he was sure she was planning on going to the temple the next day so wouldn’t be out late…but maybe she was with Paul & ElDene and they were getting back later than usual. I stated that they are very seldom out that late and maybe we should call Crae Williams, her former bishop, who just lives down the road. (I couldn’t remember his first name at the time, but my sweetheart knew to whom I was referring.) He said no that he would try again a little later. He did about 10:30. Still no answer. I stated again that we should try to call Crae Williams. He said no that things were probably just fine. (I had tho’t out in my mind months before, what we would do and whom we could call if we were concerned about her. However, I hadn’t discussed this with Karl.) Anyway, we went to bed and got up the next morning and went to the 9:00 water aerobics class, then the Sliver Sneakers class at 10:30 and then a hair cut appointment for me at noon. An hour or so after we got home I tho’t of checking to see if there were any messages. There was one from Mom that she had left at almost 10:00 that morning stating that she just called to tell us why she didn’t answer the phone the night before when Karl had called and left two messages. I called her right then. She said that she had been in the shower and had fallen and couldn’t get up or out and had spent the whole night in the bathtub! I asked her how she finally got out and she said that when Mr. Wheeler came to pick her up to take her to the temple the next morning and she didn’t come out to the car he sent a woman who was with him in to check on her. (The only time she locks her door is when she’s leaving home for a long time.) Mom was able to drape a towel over herself and Mr. Wheeler helped her out. She said she could walk fine and felt OK. But as the days are passing she has found out that she is not only very bruised but also very sore and hard to move very fast. She has since been thinking of maybe selling her place after all and moving down to the assisted living center by Roy, Utah that she tho’t of going to earlier in the year. I’m just sorry that I didn’t call myself. But, I tho’t maybe I was an alarmist and since my sweetheart wasn’t concerned I shouldn’t be either. Next time, if there is a next time, I will look up the number and call myself!
Last Wednesday evening when my sweetheart tried to call his mother about 9:50 pm to talk to her for the first time that day, she didn’t answer. He mentioned he couldn’t imagine where she was; he was sure she was planning on going to the temple the next day so wouldn’t be out late…but maybe she was with Paul & ElDene and they were getting back later than usual. I stated that they are very seldom out that late and maybe we should call Crae Williams, her former bishop, who just lives down the road. (I couldn’t remember his first name at the time, but my sweetheart knew to whom I was referring.) He said no that he would try again a little later. He did about 10:30. Still no answer. I stated again that we should try to call Crae Williams. He said no that things were probably just fine. (I had tho’t out in my mind months before, what we would do and whom we could call if we were concerned about her. However, I hadn’t discussed this with Karl.) Anyway, we went to bed and got up the next morning and went to the 9:00 water aerobics class, then the Sliver Sneakers class at 10:30 and then a hair cut appointment for me at noon. An hour or so after we got home I tho’t of checking to see if there were any messages. There was one from Mom that she had left at almost 10:00 that morning stating that she just called to tell us why she didn’t answer the phone the night before when Karl had called and left two messages. I called her right then. She said that she had been in the shower and had fallen and couldn’t get up or out and had spent the whole night in the bathtub! I asked her how she finally got out and she said that when Mr. Wheeler came to pick her up to take her to the temple the next morning and she didn’t come out to the car he sent a woman who was with him in to check on her. (The only time she locks her door is when she’s leaving home for a long time.) Mom was able to drape a towel over herself and Mr. Wheeler helped her out. She said she could walk fine and felt OK. But as the days are passing she has found out that she is not only very bruised but also very sore and hard to move very fast. She has since been thinking of maybe selling her place after all and moving down to the assisted living center by Roy, Utah that she tho’t of going to earlier in the year. I’m just sorry that I didn’t call myself. But, I tho’t maybe I was an alarmist and since my sweetheart wasn’t concerned I shouldn’t be either. Next time, if there is a next time, I will look up the number and call myself!
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