Challis Power

We are blessed to have President Fenn as our mission president.   I am not sure if we’ve mentioned it before, but he is the son-in-law of Elder Bruce R. McConkie—pretty much meeting the qualifications Elder McConkie must have set for the husband of his daughter.   It seems President Fenn practically has the Standard Works memorized.   He and Sister Fenn gave a presentation on Monday night at mission conference about the witnesses of the Savior’s resurrection.   Interesting and inspiring.               Tuesday, it was announced in our zone that Elder and Sister Challis would begin serving as assistant zone leaders.   Help!   Assistants needing assistance!     We will serve under Elder and Sister Robinson who had been serving as assistants.   Their hands are good hands for the zone to be in. We just need to follow and see if we can lighten their loads—and I need to learn a lot more about Excel!                My first “customers” on Monday morning at the library were a homeless cou

“I think the world is glorious and lovely as can be” comes to mind as we walk around Temple Square.   I thought the flower display was wonderful two weeks ago, but it has grown in color and brilliance.   And the blossoms are out—pink and white popcorn trees everywhere!   We see a row right outside our balcony window, west of the Conference Center.   For good reason, Temple Square has become a popular place for picture taking.   So fun to see families together.             The number of patrons has increased at the Library—there’s not so much time to work on our own research, nor to lop off twigs and branches that have been erroneously attached to families in the tree or to straighten tangled branches.   (Please don’t mess with “my” dead!)     I always cheer inwardly (sometimes outwardly, too) when I am able to help someone find information important to them—like the maiden name of a woman or the birth of “missing” child.   Last week, I was helping an older man (yes, older tha

The 2019 Challis Baby Club is complete (maybe?) with the arrival of Phillip Jon Nauman on March 30, about 5:00am.   Jaynie was scheduled for an induction on April 11 if he hadn’t shown up by then.   He was a thoughtful little guy and saved his mom twelve-last-days-of-pregnancy-that-seem-like-twenty-four.    It was nice that Elder Challis and I were already close by helping Lindsey with the twins on our p-day as she returned to her teaching job.    So I “moved camp” to Jaynie’s to care for Henley and Hal, Friday night through Sunday.   Then Jaynie and Ki brought Phillip home.   Happy family!                 It was hard to leave the babies and come back to the library, but I got to help a patron today by tending her baby.   I guess that service would go in the “other” category on our report. The young mother thought her baby boy would be content sitting on her lap while she worked.   He wasn’t.   When I volunteered to “walk him around,”   she didn’t even hesitate.   Baby and I spe