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This is the west entrance to the Lion House Pantry
(the rolls they serve are to die for)
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On Monday we walked to the Lion House for lunch since Monday
is missionary discount day and all you have to do is show your badge and tell
the cashier “missionary Monday, 20% discount please” and you get 20% off your
meal. While standing in the line Byde turned around to tease the men behind us
to ask if they were going to take a pie back to the office. The one man laughed and said no, then said, "you look really familiar to me." The man was Kent Kohlhase who lives here in the Salt Lake area but is originally
from Mesa and Byde knew him from the days when he worked with Kent's father, Chuck Kohlhase at Kohlhase and
Associates. Life’s daily experiences continue to manifest that it is a very
small world indeed.
It has been fun to watch all the preparations that have been going on
around Temple Square in preparation for the Young Women's Conference
that was held at 6 pm on Saturday March 30.
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Banners on the left are on the West side of the Conference Center,
the ones on the right are on the South side of the building
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This week we decided to go the “Dollar Store” near us to buy
a gallon of milk on our way home from our missionary assignment. I wanted to go
by our apartment and change into non-missionary attire but Pam convinced me to
just go to the store on the way home, hence we were still wearing our
missionary badges (we don’t normally wear them when we wear jeans). The milk in
the case had already passed the expiration date so we had to drive a bit
further to the “big” grocery store. As I was walking around the store a man,
seeing my missionary badge, walked up to me and said, “I see that you are a
missionary. Where are you from?” I told him that I was from Mesa, Arizona and
asked where he was from. He indicated that he was from Kalamazoo, Michigan
which was quite a surprise since our first grandchild, Jaylee Cox, left
February 27 to serve in the Michigan Lansing mission and has been assigned to a
ward in Kalamazoo. We learned that his name is Andra Robinson and he serves in
the university branch presidency in Kalamazoo. Brother Robinson said that he felt
confident that he would eventually meet Jaylee and would give her any assistance
she may need. He took our picture so he could show it to her when he returns home. We exchanged phone numbers and email addresses. We know that
the whole timeline and “chance meeting” was a special tender mercy from our
Savior. That is the only time in the month we have been here that anyone has
approached us because of wearing our missionary badges to ask us where we are
from and that person is from the only town where our granddaughter is serving a
mission; it was a very sweet experience.
We continue our training in the British Zone and are
learning how to be better detectives as we use census records and other online
databases to complete pedigree charts to verify family relationships. We learned
that people in the 1700 and 1800’s typically had a child every couple of years,
hence, if that pattern is interrupted a child could have died or some other
event and may “fall off” the census records. At that point, more research needs
to be done to determine why the child is not found. The genealogy world refers
to that as doing a rolling census study. We are learning so many exciting things about the proper way to do genealogy and hope that enough of it will "sink in" so that we will be able to help not only the patrons who come to the library but our own families as well.
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Flower bed on the east side of the
Joseph Smith Memorial Building
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Flowers always make a picture better -
notice no heavy coats - YEAH!
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Last, but not least some little daisies begging to show off
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