Karen’s narrative continues…
Sunday morning, September 25 we got up to go and hear and see the Choir Broadcast and Richard L Evans’ “The Spoken Word” at the Tabernacle on Temple Square. It really was great and a lot of people were there to hear and view the Choir. We saw the Warrens who used to live in New Orleans and now live in Wichita, Kansas. They were there to be sealed in the Temple. They also had come to the Tabernacle to hear the broadcast live. We talked to them awhile and gave them Joe’s address and telephone number. Then we went to the information booth on Temple Square to see where the nearest chapel was that we could attend Sunday School. So, we went to the North Seventeenth Ward which was in use by two wards at the same time. The Sunday School we attended was mostly made up of elderly people. (There was an Old Folks’ Home across the street from it). But our Sunday School class was good and had many young people in it. Everyone was friendly. The furniture in the foyer was very lush, however, something we weren’t used to.
We had dinner at J.B.’s Big Boy and then went to “This is the Place” Monument. Then, we headed for Bingham City to see the Kennecott Copper Mines. We bought a souvenir of copper stone at thier visitor’s lookout way high up. The mine is two miles across and a half a mile deep. The Trains on the terraces looked like toys. In fact you had to squint to see them well.
We went on to Provo, the home of Brigham Young University. Before we got to the campus, we looked up Mike Stockford with an address he had given us. (Note from Jim: Mike was a friend from the Battle Creek Ward that was attending BYU). We found his apartment but Mike wasn’t home but Elder Michael Coons was. What a surprise! Elder Coons used to be a missionary in Battle Creek and was rooming with Mike Stockford. What a small world. We exchanged gossip on Sister Strong, Elder Rollins and Vivian Whiteside. Mike gave us the other Mike’s girl’s name and phone number since Mike was there for the evening. We went on to another address we had of Lynne Secor of Battle Creek. No one home there either. Really striking out today. But we went next door and there was Linda Whiteside! So good to see another familiar face. She went with us to the campus and gave us a tour of it. Showed us the Y-Center, Fine Arts Building, Science Building and all over campus. Really pretty. We fell in love with the old part of the campus, though.
We did all this walking. then we got into the car to hunt up Keith Adler. (Another friend from the Battle Creek Ward.) Before we got to his dorm, we saw him with a group of guys. We stopped and talked to him. He was headed for the Fieldhouse for a Fireside. They were in a hurry as the speaker was LeGrande Richards and they wanted a front row seat. As we looked around, we saw all kinds of groups headed in the same direction – the Fieldhouse. And here it was an hour and a half before it started. We took Linda back to her apartment. By this time, Lynne Secor was home. Went to see her. She showed us their apartment in which six girls shared.
We headed back to Salt Lake to look up Mike and Marita in Sandy. We stopped at a gas station and called her number. Mike invited us over to her home. We had a very nice visit with them. They were to be our witnesses in the Temple but they came for the 7:30 a.m. session, but we had come into Salt Lake so late we had changed it to the 4:30 p.m. session. We couldn’t get hold of them to tell them. They told us of their plan to be married in December in the Temple. It was such an enjoyable visit. They are our same age and it would be nice to live near a couple like them. Oh well!
Next… Monday
Dad