MEMORY LANE

February 25, 2011 Thursday

This morning we went to visit Paul Hanson, a less active member about my age. His wife isn’t a member and kept herself busy so she didn’t have to come in and sit down for the first part of the visit. Paul immediately started talking about his mission. He’d served as a construction missionary in 1964 in Adelaide and a few other cities in South Australia. That’s when Orson was there. Paul started talking about Elder Moss, the construction supervisor. Orson remembered him and then commented what a good cook Sister Ross was. Paul then jumped in and they had a good time reminiscing about some of the “funny times” of their missions. They figure they probably met each other but couldn’t remember for sure. Paul pulled out some photos he kept in an envelope on the little phone table and we couldn’t even recognize him in the photos. So it’s understandable that Orson and Paul didn’t remember each other. His wife came in and visited with us after a while and was quite friendly. He invited us back for some cold water and a chat whenever we want. It would be neat if we could teach Betty, his wife. We plan to go back and see if we can become friends at least.

We had some great photos to attach, but they seem to have disappeared from the CD we put them on. Drat!!!