Family Hisry Mission Week 32

Hi everyone;

This has been a great week. We have been extremely busy this past week, what with th combining of Zones, and the scheduling problem. I have been kept with all the changes. Plus I have had to increase my time on the floor. It has been fun helping the guest with finding relatives.

On Saturday I helped a couple from Michigan find their parents. The wife was extremely excited when I found her grandfather and his Findagrave page with a picture.

Sunday we spent the evening driving around to the local cemeteries. We visited 3 to find Sharon’s family. The grave sites were all in good condition. Today we worked around the apartment and then spent the afternoon at the golf course. Both Sharon and I struggled especially because the 4 some in front of us were very slow.

We then went over to Erika’s and enjoyed a nice dinner with the family. They were very busy in yard. They had spent the weekend up in the mountains and had returned home to try and prepare their garden site, big project.

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day. We want to give all those who have served in the Military and grateful, THANKYOU!!!

E/S Waller, Bama & Bampa, Mom & Dad, Sharon and Chuck

                                                 Sister's Dykes, Conlin, Stansel, And Sharon in Lobby

                                                        Sisters Hunter and Thompson

Temple from our Sunday School Classroom

Family History Mission week 31

Bom Dia!

It has been a great week here in the Salt Lake Valley, it rained about every day! The water is sorely needed and the rain is answers to prayers.  We have been kept busy planning on the combining of two zone, this will add another 35-40 people to our zone and increase our area of responsibility.  So much planning and scheduling activity has been happening.

We had the opportunity to go to the Payson Tempe Open house last week.  Wow what a gorgeous Temple, but it should be known as the exercise Temple, there are a lot of stairs to climb.  One feature I enjoyed seeing is all the area for sitting, which would give lots of places to sit and meditate.  The stain glass windows and all the light coming in made it very warm and inviting.  We traveled down with three Sisters in our Zone; Sisters Hansen, Christensen and Phillips.  On the way back we stopped at Chuck A Rama for lunch.  As we were approaching Payson a weather front moved in and we had tremendous wind and a little rain, but all was quite in the Temple.

The flowers around Temple Square have been in full bloom and I was able to get a picture before they were all torn out for the next round of flowers.  They keep the grounds looking beautiful all year, what a great place to walk every day.

Sharon had her second Sunday of playing the organ and did a great job this week, but her only problem was she forgot the order of the songs and started playing the closing hymn as the open hymn! President Klopfer jumped up to remind her which song.  It was a good light moment.

We start this week with bus tours that come through SLC and make a 1 hr stop at the Library.  We have to give a short presentation and help them to understand what is available at the Library.  Some of them are a little nervous about signing up for Family Search, we think that they are thinking we will send the missionaries or that we baptize right in the Library.  There is a quite release of air when we assure them everything is free with not release of their information.

We also had a devotional last week with Elder Neil Andersen of the Twelve. It was a good presentation and message.  it was announced that we have gone over the 400K for name submitters to the Temple.  Our goal for the year was to increase from about 200K last year to 500K this year and we are well on they way of crushing that record. Thanks everyone for find your ancestors and submitting names.

Well hope everyone has a great week and keep on search for ancestors!

E/S Waller, Chuck & Sharon, Mom & Dad, Bama & Bampa

Sisters Christensen, Hansen and Rawlins

                                                     Flowers between Admin Bldg and JSMB

Family History Library Week 30

Hi Everyone;

It has been raining here all week, truly an answer to people’s prayers!  The area is indeed in need of more moisture and the rain this last week will help the overall water situation.
We continue to be busy in the Library, with all the usual things. We are having more and more foreigner’s visit the Library, which makes communications difficult at times.  We are quickly heading into the combining of the US/ Canada and hosting Zone.  Actually just a part of the US/Canada zone will be transferred over to our zone.  This will increase my job working on the schedule, oh well things have to get done!

Sharon has been practicing two or three times a week on the organ and is getting better.  Her first Sunday as organist didn’t go very well, but she is trying to get back into the swing of things.  It is amazing how rusty you get on things like that, when you aren’t using your talents.

Elder and Sister Richins final got their VISA’s to Australia and left for Brisbane.  They arrived safely and are already in the saddle so to speak.  We have received a new couple in the Zone; Elder and Sister Sorensen from Nampa Idaho, they are sorely needed and will be a great help.

I had to give the spiritual thought the other day and was telling a story about my Father; afterwards Sister Montague wanted to know more about him, so I shared a lot of his stories.  Later I heard her talking to another missionary and she mentioned 29 Palms, California.  So I asked her about that, and she said she and her husband were stationed there in the early 70’s. I told her that my father and mother were there at that time and she then put 2 and 2 together and realized that her husband and my father served in the bishopric together.  She remembered mom and her cactus pear jelly and also remembered many of the other folks, small world!

Well that is about it for this week.  Love to all!

E/S Waller, Mom & Dad, chuck & Sharon, Bama and Bampa

Family History Week 29

HI everyone;
I am slipping on the weekly blog, because I have little to say except it has been a great week!! Which after a time gets rather boring to read as it isn’t much news.  This past week we did have some memorable moments though.
We had an early morning devotional with David Glen Hatch.  He is a world famous pianist and presented a wonderful spiritually uplifting devotional.  I have never seen fingers move so fast around the keyboard.  He in a sense attacked the keyboard and it responded with many different moods of music; soft, loud, soothing, harsh and brash, the whole spectrum!
We have lost a number of missionaries this week from our zone; Sisters, Hill, Ray, Nichols, Ollivier and Elder and Sister Richin’s.  The Richin’s are off to Brisbane, Australia, as their VISA finally came through with approval. They are being replaced by E/S Sorensen from Nampa, Idaho.
In about 2 weeks we will be combining with half the US/Canada Zone.  We will then be responsible for the entire 1st floor; so all the Hosting zone oldies have to learn how to help the guest with logging into Family Search.  This also means I will have another 30 or 40 people to schedule each week, yuck!
We had a surprise visit this past weekend by Scott , Yahiza and Ehylah; we had a great time and enjoyed the break. Scot and I even got to play a little golf, until the lightning struck a few miles away.  We quickly evacuated the course.
Well that is about all the news for the past week. Hope this finds everyone healthy and happy!
Love to all,
E/S Waller, Chuck & Sharon, Bama & Bampa, Mom & Dad