Life History of Larry C Freeman
· 20 September 2014
I was born November 17, 1948 at 4 PM in Salina Hospital, Salina Utah. I lived in Aurora Utah, 5 miles from Salina with my parents and brother Kent, (6) and sister Kate, (3). I also had one other brother, Bryce, who was born in 1952 but only lived a few days. I was blessed in church by my Father on December 5, 1948. I was baptized into the church on December 1, 1956 by Steven Peterson.
Mom was always hunting for me because I would always go places, like to school with my sister. My best friend was Marlin Palmer who was a year older. We were inseparable until he went to school. Then I entertained myself with my imagination at home, or went to school too. The folks on the grocery store next-door. Mom tried to give me to help, but I always left to go someplace.
I was always the tallest in my classes and friends. Our family went on a lot of family trips to California, the Northwest, Canada and Eastern United States. I was thrown off of the tractor and then run over by a tractor while young, but not hurt very badly. I had the normal childhood diseases and scarletina which made my hands and feet peel severely.
I earned all of my bandalo awards for primary and was a graduate of it. I was ordained a Deacon on November 20, 1960, a Teacher on November 25, 1962 and a Priest on November 22, 1964 all by my father.
We found that I could run in Junior High. One day the coach started a race. I finished tying my shoes after the race started, caught up, and won. Then I started to win a lot of blue ribbons races.
In the ninth grade and 11th grade I was class president of my class. Then my senior year of High School I was Vice President.
I received my Duty to God award when I was a Junior in High School. I attained the level of Star Scout in Scouting.
I was in state track meet three years and wone a lot of medals. My first medal was fourth in the 100 yard dash when I was a sophomore. My senior year I won first place in the 220 yard dash in the 440 yard relay. I was offered a scholarship for track from Snow College, but declined in order to attend the BYU.
I was on the North Sevier basketball team for four years also, where I played forward and center. I earned my school letter for basketball and track.
When I was a junior in school, I had my drivers license suspended for three months for speeding 100 mph.
In 1967 I graduated from North Sevier High. At the time I was most interested in college and going on a mission. Sometime after graduation I talk to Bishop Mason about going on a mission. I made application to go sometime in January, 1968. This would give me time to get some college credit before I went and not interrupt a semester. I wanted to get as much credit done before I left so I decided to go to summer school and then the fall semester.
Geology was my major sense of subject interested me as did most sciences. It was during the fall semester that I met Lynda Heagle. She was in my geology class. At the time I wasn't too interested in girls, thinking of school and mission, but I'll but I was always interested some. We talked only briefly in class, but got to know each other through the field trips the class took. She lived in Helaman halls and so did I and after the first couple of trips we would walk to the halls together. After a few field trips we started showing interest in each other and along in November we were going steady. I got to go to California Christmas vacation to meet her family.
December 11, 1967 my brother's fiancé and son arrived from Germany and they were married the next day by my father. Her name was Marty's Zietlow and the boy was Frank.
December 24, 1967 I was ordained an Elder and then receive my mission call on January 4, 1968 to serve in the Australian mission. I finished my semesters work in January and went home for three weeks before my mission.
I received my endowments from the Manti Temple on 10 February 1968. My farewell from the ward was on February 18, where my entire family participated. February 19 I entered the Salt Lake Mission home. The day my brother had entered the home in 1962. I was there for a week and set apart by John Longden, an assistant to the 12. There were 12 elders going to my mission. Our farewell in the mission home with was on Sunday in the Tabernacle. My flight out wasn't until Tuesday, so I went home for a day.
I left the country on Tuesday, February 27, 1968 from the Salt Lake airport at 1 PM. My parents, grandmother and Lynda were with me, but my sister Kaye got there just after I left, so we missed each other. My first stop was in San Francisco for a few hours. Then Hawaii, Fiji And finally Sydney after 18 hours of flying. Pres. Smith and his wife met us at the airport. My first assignment was to Canberra. I write there on February 29 and was met by my companion Elder Przybyla from California. That night I had my first taste of missionary work. We tracted and checked out some member referrals. Our first contact was very rude to us and this sort of shocked me. Missionary work wasn't as easy as I had thought, and it was hard at first to recognize when people were sincere about finding out about the Gospel.
My first baptism was in April, Sister Frasier in Canberra. She had a few problems at home and such, but accept the Gospel well. I was here for four months. My next area was Queanbeyan where I was made a senior companion. Then I went to Sydney and was companion to the district leader. This was a much better area and an opportunity for my growth.
But most of the rest of my time in area surrounding Sydney. In Cronulla we baptized three people to member referrals. With one family I gained a testimony of fasting and how this principle can help in teaching an opening people's hearts. This one family was baptized after I left.
I was made a district leader in Hurstville. At this time the mission was experimenting by having to district leaders in one district. We baptizing taught various nationalities, baptizing a Lebanese man here.
In Harbord I had the opportunity to become a training elder. The ward chapel had burned down and the members were rebuilding it. Through member participation we had four baptisms, including our first complete Family, the Drumgold's. They had been referred by a member family and will quite receptive to us, asking for the first lesson even though we weren't prepared to presented at the time. They were baptized in four weeks, Mr. Drumgold giving up tea and alcohol before we presented that lesson, and all of them very willing to accept the challenges and very friendly towards us. They were the first ones baptized in the chapel.
I had a set back for a few days on my concentration on my work. Lynda wrote and expressed a desire to go out with other fellows. I had all sorts of of thoughts run through my mind and for a while really wanted to go home and clear things up. But I wrote and told her that it would be best for her to enjoy yourself and look around. I make a covenant with the Lord that if she was the one for me if I stopped worrying and worked very hard out there that should be waiting for me on my return.
The last eight months of the mission I felt was my most spiritual and successful time in my growth and dedication to my work. At this time again real testimonies of prayer and fasting and using my faith to accomplish tasks. The new Elder, Elder Owens, joined me and with him we had many good times. October 5, 1969, we baptized 5 very special people, Sister Cragg and four of the Gufforg's. We first met Sister Cragg some months before. She was very willing to accept the Gospel and be baptized, but her husband was very agnostic towards the church. After many months working with Mr. Cragg, we obtained his permission for his wife to be baptized. She was our most enthusiastic convert and we liked her very much. The Guffogg's were also very receptive and friendly to us. They were baptized three weeks after we started with them.
My last area was in Wollongong where I was a district leader and trainer again. This is a hard area although we met many fine people. On New Year's Day, 1970 we baptize the Cavalieri's, who had been a very good people to us.
I left Sydney the end of January 1970. Sister Cragg and another family came to see me off and Sister Cragg give me a beautiful kangaroo coat. It was a very nice time, but also very sad to be leaving. I came home a month early so I could get into the spring semester at the BYU. My parents, sister, grandmother and Lynda were at the airport to meet me. I came in with another Elder from Salt Lake and our suitcases were misplaced so he said he would pick them up when they came in.
We had one week before school started, so Lynda came home with us. We came back to Aurora, President Bosshardt officially released me from my mission. We returned to Provo the next weekend to get settled and register. I was again living in Helaman Halls.
School started again in February and it took me a while to get used to things again, like driving on the right side of the road and the time changes and such. Many of my weekends were spent in Aurora getting things settled. I reported my mission February 1970 and talked in a few other wards. I saw my family and friends again. My brother and his wife now had a new baby son Rycharn, and my sister had married Mark Plehn and were living in Provo.
In April Lynda and I went to California to take her endowments in the Los Angeles Temple. School finished in May and Lynda graduated in Elementary Education and Mark graduated in Law and German. After graduation we headed to California with a stop in Las Vegas to visit relatives. On June 4, 1970, Lynda and I were married for time and all eternity in the Los Angeles Temple by President Harless, first counselor. Both families and friends attended the wedding, with Marlin as best man and Lynda's sister as maid of honor and her other sister and friend as bridesmaids. We have the reception in Ventura that night, it was very good except Lynda measured me wrong for my tuxedo and it was too short all over. Lynda's sister decorated our car for us and we got showered with rice. While we were washing the car, our folks packed our gifts and cleaned up the hall. We then left for honeymoon staying in Santa Barbara first. Then up the coast to Oakland where we left all my clothes in the motel closet. We realize this when we got to Redlands, so we bought some new clothes and decided to head home to Lake Tahoe. We lived in Linda's old apartment for the summer while we went to school and worked weekends at the Y Center.
We moved in the fall to a new smaller apartment in Provo. Lynda started teaching in Granite District after the strike was settled. She teaches second grade at Lincoln elementary on 39th south. I went back to school, still in geology, and working part-time at the Y center and working with the track team. We are in the BYU 29th Ward which is an all married student ward where I am First Assistant to the Sunday School Superintendent and Lynda is serving as a visiting teacher.
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Contributed by David Mower.
· 20 September 2014
I was born November 17, 1948 at 4 PM in Salina Hospital, Salina Utah. I lived in Aurora Utah, 5 miles from Salina with my parents and brother Kent, (6) and sister Kate, (3). I also had one other brother, Bryce, who was born in 1952 but only lived a few days. I was blessed in church by my Father on December 5, 1948. I was baptized into the church on December 1, 1956 by Steven Peterson.
Mom was always hunting for me because I would always go places, like to school with my sister. My best friend was Marlin Palmer who was a year older. We were inseparable until he went to school. Then I entertained myself with my imagination at home, or went to school too. The folks on the grocery store next-door. Mom tried to give me to help, but I always left to go someplace.
I was always the tallest in my classes and friends. Our family went on a lot of family trips to California, the Northwest, Canada and Eastern United States. I was thrown off of the tractor and then run over by a tractor while young, but not hurt very badly. I had the normal childhood diseases and scarletina which made my hands and feet peel severely.
I earned all of my bandalo awards for primary and was a graduate of it. I was ordained a Deacon on November 20, 1960, a Teacher on November 25, 1962 and a Priest on November 22, 1964 all by my father.
We found that I could run in Junior High. One day the coach started a race. I finished tying my shoes after the race started, caught up, and won. Then I started to win a lot of blue ribbons races.
In the ninth grade and 11th grade I was class president of my class. Then my senior year of High School I was Vice President.
I received my Duty to God award when I was a Junior in High School. I attained the level of Star Scout in Scouting.
I was in state track meet three years and wone a lot of medals. My first medal was fourth in the 100 yard dash when I was a sophomore. My senior year I won first place in the 220 yard dash in the 440 yard relay. I was offered a scholarship for track from Snow College, but declined in order to attend the BYU.
I was on the North Sevier basketball team for four years also, where I played forward and center. I earned my school letter for basketball and track.
When I was a junior in school, I had my drivers license suspended for three months for speeding 100 mph.
In 1967 I graduated from North Sevier High. At the time I was most interested in college and going on a mission. Sometime after graduation I talk to Bishop Mason about going on a mission. I made application to go sometime in January, 1968. This would give me time to get some college credit before I went and not interrupt a semester. I wanted to get as much credit done before I left so I decided to go to summer school and then the fall semester.
Geology was my major sense of subject interested me as did most sciences. It was during the fall semester that I met Lynda Heagle. She was in my geology class. At the time I wasn't too interested in girls, thinking of school and mission, but I'll but I was always interested some. We talked only briefly in class, but got to know each other through the field trips the class took. She lived in Helaman halls and so did I and after the first couple of trips we would walk to the halls together. After a few field trips we started showing interest in each other and along in November we were going steady. I got to go to California Christmas vacation to meet her family.
December 11, 1967 my brother's fiancé and son arrived from Germany and they were married the next day by my father. Her name was Marty's Zietlow and the boy was Frank.
December 24, 1967 I was ordained an Elder and then receive my mission call on January 4, 1968 to serve in the Australian mission. I finished my semesters work in January and went home for three weeks before my mission.
I received my endowments from the Manti Temple on 10 February 1968. My farewell from the ward was on February 18, where my entire family participated. February 19 I entered the Salt Lake Mission home. The day my brother had entered the home in 1962. I was there for a week and set apart by John Longden, an assistant to the 12. There were 12 elders going to my mission. Our farewell in the mission home with was on Sunday in the Tabernacle. My flight out wasn't until Tuesday, so I went home for a day.
I left the country on Tuesday, February 27, 1968 from the Salt Lake airport at 1 PM. My parents, grandmother and Lynda were with me, but my sister Kaye got there just after I left, so we missed each other. My first stop was in San Francisco for a few hours. Then Hawaii, Fiji And finally Sydney after 18 hours of flying. Pres. Smith and his wife met us at the airport. My first assignment was to Canberra. I write there on February 29 and was met by my companion Elder Przybyla from California. That night I had my first taste of missionary work. We tracted and checked out some member referrals. Our first contact was very rude to us and this sort of shocked me. Missionary work wasn't as easy as I had thought, and it was hard at first to recognize when people were sincere about finding out about the Gospel.
My first baptism was in April, Sister Frasier in Canberra. She had a few problems at home and such, but accept the Gospel well. I was here for four months. My next area was Queanbeyan where I was made a senior companion. Then I went to Sydney and was companion to the district leader. This was a much better area and an opportunity for my growth.
But most of the rest of my time in area surrounding Sydney. In Cronulla we baptized three people to member referrals. With one family I gained a testimony of fasting and how this principle can help in teaching an opening people's hearts. This one family was baptized after I left.
I was made a district leader in Hurstville. At this time the mission was experimenting by having to district leaders in one district. We baptizing taught various nationalities, baptizing a Lebanese man here.
In Harbord I had the opportunity to become a training elder. The ward chapel had burned down and the members were rebuilding it. Through member participation we had four baptisms, including our first complete Family, the Drumgold's. They had been referred by a member family and will quite receptive to us, asking for the first lesson even though we weren't prepared to presented at the time. They were baptized in four weeks, Mr. Drumgold giving up tea and alcohol before we presented that lesson, and all of them very willing to accept the challenges and very friendly towards us. They were the first ones baptized in the chapel.
I had a set back for a few days on my concentration on my work. Lynda wrote and expressed a desire to go out with other fellows. I had all sorts of of thoughts run through my mind and for a while really wanted to go home and clear things up. But I wrote and told her that it would be best for her to enjoy yourself and look around. I make a covenant with the Lord that if she was the one for me if I stopped worrying and worked very hard out there that should be waiting for me on my return.
The last eight months of the mission I felt was my most spiritual and successful time in my growth and dedication to my work. At this time again real testimonies of prayer and fasting and using my faith to accomplish tasks. The new Elder, Elder Owens, joined me and with him we had many good times. October 5, 1969, we baptized 5 very special people, Sister Cragg and four of the Gufforg's. We first met Sister Cragg some months before. She was very willing to accept the Gospel and be baptized, but her husband was very agnostic towards the church. After many months working with Mr. Cragg, we obtained his permission for his wife to be baptized. She was our most enthusiastic convert and we liked her very much. The Guffogg's were also very receptive and friendly to us. They were baptized three weeks after we started with them.
My last area was in Wollongong where I was a district leader and trainer again. This is a hard area although we met many fine people. On New Year's Day, 1970 we baptize the Cavalieri's, who had been a very good people to us.
I left Sydney the end of January 1970. Sister Cragg and another family came to see me off and Sister Cragg give me a beautiful kangaroo coat. It was a very nice time, but also very sad to be leaving. I came home a month early so I could get into the spring semester at the BYU. My parents, sister, grandmother and Lynda were at the airport to meet me. I came in with another Elder from Salt Lake and our suitcases were misplaced so he said he would pick them up when they came in.
We had one week before school started, so Lynda came home with us. We came back to Aurora, President Bosshardt officially released me from my mission. We returned to Provo the next weekend to get settled and register. I was again living in Helaman Halls.
School started again in February and it took me a while to get used to things again, like driving on the right side of the road and the time changes and such. Many of my weekends were spent in Aurora getting things settled. I reported my mission February 1970 and talked in a few other wards. I saw my family and friends again. My brother and his wife now had a new baby son Rycharn, and my sister had married Mark Plehn and were living in Provo.
In April Lynda and I went to California to take her endowments in the Los Angeles Temple. School finished in May and Lynda graduated in Elementary Education and Mark graduated in Law and German. After graduation we headed to California with a stop in Las Vegas to visit relatives. On June 4, 1970, Lynda and I were married for time and all eternity in the Los Angeles Temple by President Harless, first counselor. Both families and friends attended the wedding, with Marlin as best man and Lynda's sister as maid of honor and her other sister and friend as bridesmaids. We have the reception in Ventura that night, it was very good except Lynda measured me wrong for my tuxedo and it was too short all over. Lynda's sister decorated our car for us and we got showered with rice. While we were washing the car, our folks packed our gifts and cleaned up the hall. We then left for honeymoon staying in Santa Barbara first. Then up the coast to Oakland where we left all my clothes in the motel closet. We realize this when we got to Redlands, so we bought some new clothes and decided to head home to Lake Tahoe. We lived in Linda's old apartment for the summer while we went to school and worked weekends at the Y Center.
We moved in the fall to a new smaller apartment in Provo. Lynda started teaching in Granite District after the strike was settled. She teaches second grade at Lincoln elementary on 39th south. I went back to school, still in geology, and working part-time at the Y center and working with the track team. We are in the BYU 29th Ward which is an all married student ward where I am First Assistant to the Sunday School Superintendent and Lynda is serving as a visiting teacher.
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Life History of Larry C Freeman
· 20 September 2014
I was born November 17, 1948 at 4 PM in Salina Hospital, Salina Utah. I lived in Aurora Utah, 5 miles from Salina with my parents and brother Kent, (6) and sister Kate, (3). I also had one other brother, Bryce, who was born in 1952 but only lived a few days. I was blessed in church by my Father on December 5, 1948. I was baptized into the church on December 1, 1956 by Steven Peterson.
Mom was always hunting for me because I would always go places, like to school with my sister. My best friend was Marlin Palmer who was a year older. We were inseparable until he went to school. Then I entertained myself with my imagination at home, or went to school too. The folks on the grocery store next-door. Mom tried to give me to help, but I always left to go someplace.
I was always the tallest in my classes and friends. Our family went on a lot of family trips to California, the Northwest, Canada and Eastern United States. I was thrown off of the tractor and then run over by a tractor while young, but not hurt very badly. I had the normal childhood diseases and scarletina which made my hands and feet peel severely.
I earned all of my bandalo awards for primary and was a graduate of it. I was ordained a Deacon on November 20, 1960, a Teacher on November 25, 1962 and a Priest on November 22, 1964 all by my father.
We found that I could run in Junior High. One day the coach started a race. I finished tying my shoes after the race started, caught up, and won. Then I started to win a lot of blue ribbons races.
In the ninth grade and 11th grade I was class president of my class. Then my senior year of High School I was Vice President.
I received my Duty to God award when I was a Junior in High School. I attained the level of Star Scout in Scouting.
I was in state track meet three years and wone a lot of medals. My first medal was fourth in the 100 yard dash when I was a sophomore. My senior year I won first place in the 220 yard dash in the 440 yard relay. I was offered a scholarship for track from Snow College, but declined in order to attend the BYU.
I was on the North Sevier basketball team for four years also, where I played forward and center. I earned my school letter for basketball and track.
When I was a junior in school, I had my drivers license suspended for three months for speeding 100 mph.
In 1967 I graduated from North Sevier High. At the time I was most interested in college and going on a mission. Sometime after graduation I talk to Bishop Mason about going on a mission. I made application to go sometime in January, 1968. This would give me time to get some college credit before I went and not interrupt a semester. I wanted to get as much credit done before I left so I decided to go to summer school and then the fall semester.
Geology was my major sense of subject interested me as did most sciences. It was during the fall semester that I met Lynda Heagle. She was in my geology class. At the time I wasn't too interested in girls, thinking of school and mission, but I'll but I was always interested some. We talked only briefly in class, but got to know each other through the field trips the class took. She lived in Helaman halls and so did I and after the first couple of trips we would walk to the halls together. After a few field trips we started showing interest in each other and along in November we were going steady. I got to go to California Christmas vacation to meet her family.
December 11, 1967 my brother's fiancé and son arrived from Germany and they were married the next day by my father. Her name was Marty's Zietlow and the boy was Frank.
December 24, 1967 I was ordained an Elder and then receive my mission call on January 4, 1968 to serve in the Australian mission. I finished my semesters work in January and went home for three weeks before my mission.
I received my endowments from the Manti Temple on 10 February 1968. My farewell from the ward was on February 18, where my entire family participated. February 19 I entered the Salt Lake Mission home. The day my brother had entered the home in 1962. I was there for a week and set apart by John Longden, an assistant to the 12. There were 12 elders going to my mission. Our farewell in the mission home with was on Sunday in the Tabernacle. My flight out wasn't until Tuesday, so I went home for a day.
I left the country on Tuesday, February 27, 1968 from the Salt Lake airport at 1 PM. My parents, grandmother and Lynda were with me, but my sister Kaye got there just after I left, so we missed each other. My first stop was in San Francisco for a few hours. Then Hawaii, Fiji And finally Sydney after 18 hours of flying. Pres. Smith and his wife met us at the airport. My first assignment was to Canberra. I write there on February 29 and was met by my companion Elder Przybyla from California. That night I had my first taste of missionary work. We tracted and checked out some member referrals. Our first contact was very rude to us and this sort of shocked me. Missionary work wasn't as easy as I had thought, and it was hard at first to recognize when people were sincere about finding out about the Gospel.
My first baptism was in April, Sister Frasier in Canberra. She had a few problems at home and such, but accept the Gospel well. I was here for four months. My next area was Queanbeyan where I was made a senior companion. Then I went to Sydney and was companion to the district leader. This was a much better area and an opportunity for my growth.
But most of the rest of my time in area surrounding Sydney. In Cronulla we baptized three people to member referrals. With one family I gained a testimony of fasting and how this principle can help in teaching an opening people's hearts. This one family was baptized after I left.
I was made a district leader in Hurstville. At this time the mission was experimenting by having to district leaders in one district. We baptizing taught various nationalities, baptizing a Lebanese man here.
In Harbord I had the opportunity to become a training elder. The ward chapel had burned down and the members were rebuilding it. Through member participation we had four baptisms, including our first complete Family, the Drumgold's. They had been referred by a member family and will quite receptive to us, asking for the first lesson even though we weren't prepared to presented at the time. They were baptized in four weeks, Mr. Drumgold giving up tea and alcohol before we presented that lesson, and all of them very willing to accept the challenges and very friendly towards us. They were the first ones baptized in the chapel.
I had a set back for a few days on my concentration on my work. Lynda wrote and expressed a desire to go out with other fellows. I had all sorts of of thoughts run through my mind and for a while really wanted to go home and clear things up. But I wrote and told her that it would be best for her to enjoy yourself and look around. I make a covenant with the Lord that if she was the one for me if I stopped worrying and worked very hard out there that should be waiting for me on my return.
The last eight months of the mission I felt was my most spiritual and successful time in my growth and dedication to my work. At this time again real testimonies of prayer and fasting and using my faith to accomplish tasks. The new Elder, Elder Owens, joined me and with him we had many good times. October 5, 1969, we baptized 5 very special people, Sister Cragg and four of the Gufforg's. We first met Sister Cragg some months before. She was very willing to accept the Gospel and be baptized, but her husband was very agnostic towards the church. After many months working with Mr. Cragg, we obtained his permission for his wife to be baptized. She was our most enthusiastic convert and we liked her very much. The Guffogg's were also very receptive and friendly to us. They were baptized three weeks after we started with them.
My last area was in Wollongong where I was a district leader and trainer again. This is a hard area although we met many fine people. On New Year's Day, 1970 we baptize the Cavalieri's, who had been a very good people to us.
I left Sydney the end of January 1970. Sister Cragg and another family came to see me off and Sister Cragg give me a beautiful kangaroo coat. It was a very nice time, but also very sad to be leaving. I came home a month early so I could get into the spring semester at the BYU. My parents, sister, grandmother and Lynda were at the airport to meet me. I came in with another Elder from Salt Lake and our suitcases were misplaced so he said he would pick them up when they came in.
We had one week before school started, so Lynda came home with us. We came back to Aurora, President Bosshardt officially released me from my mission. We returned to Provo the next weekend to get settled and register. I was again living in Helaman Halls.
School started again in February and it took me a while to get used to things again, like driving on the right side of the road and the time changes and such. Many of my weekends were spent in Aurora getting things settled. I reported my mission February 1970 and talked in a few other wards. I saw my family and friends again. My brother and his wife now had a new baby son Rycharn, and my sister had married Mark Plehn and were living in Provo.
In April Lynda and I went to California to take her endowments in the Los Angeles Temple. School finished in May and Lynda graduated in Elementary Education and Mark graduated in Law and German. After graduation we headed to California with a stop in Las Vegas to visit relatives. On June 4, 1970, Lynda and I were married for time and all eternity in the Los Angeles Temple by President Harless, first counselor. Both families and friends attended the wedding, with Marlin as best man and Lynda's sister as maid of honor and her other sister and friend as bridesmaids. We have the reception in Ventura that night, it was very good except Lynda measured me wrong for my tuxedo and it was too short all over. Lynda's sister decorated our car for us and we got showered with rice. While we were washing the car, our folks packed our gifts and cleaned up the hall. We then left for honeymoon staying in Santa Barbara first. Then up the coast to Oakland where we left all my clothes in the motel closet. We realize this when we got to Redlands, so we bought some new clothes and decided to head home to Lake Tahoe. We lived in Linda's old apartment for the summer while we went to school and worked weekends at the Y Center.
We moved in the fall to a new smaller apartment in Provo. Lynda started teaching in Granite District after the strike was settled. She teaches second grade at Lincoln elementary on 39th south. I went back to school, still in geology, and working part-time at the Y center and working with the track team. We are in the BYU 29th Ward which is an all married student ward where I am First Assistant to the Sunday School Superintendent and Lynda is serving as a visiting teacher.
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Contributed by David Mower.
· 20 September 2014
I was born November 17, 1948 at 4 PM in Salina Hospital, Salina Utah. I lived in Aurora Utah, 5 miles from Salina with my parents and brother Kent, (6) and sister Kate, (3). I also had one other brother, Bryce, who was born in 1952 but only lived a few days. I was blessed in church by my Father on December 5, 1948. I was baptized into the church on December 1, 1956 by Steven Peterson.
Mom was always hunting for me because I would always go places, like to school with my sister. My best friend was Marlin Palmer who was a year older. We were inseparable until he went to school. Then I entertained myself with my imagination at home, or went to school too. The folks on the grocery store next-door. Mom tried to give me to help, but I always left to go someplace.
I was always the tallest in my classes and friends. Our family went on a lot of family trips to California, the Northwest, Canada and Eastern United States. I was thrown off of the tractor and then run over by a tractor while young, but not hurt very badly. I had the normal childhood diseases and scarletina which made my hands and feet peel severely.
I earned all of my bandalo awards for primary and was a graduate of it. I was ordained a Deacon on November 20, 1960, a Teacher on November 25, 1962 and a Priest on November 22, 1964 all by my father.
We found that I could run in Junior High. One day the coach started a race. I finished tying my shoes after the race started, caught up, and won. Then I started to win a lot of blue ribbons races.
In the ninth grade and 11th grade I was class president of my class. Then my senior year of High School I was Vice President.
I received my Duty to God award when I was a Junior in High School. I attained the level of Star Scout in Scouting.
I was in state track meet three years and wone a lot of medals. My first medal was fourth in the 100 yard dash when I was a sophomore. My senior year I won first place in the 220 yard dash in the 440 yard relay. I was offered a scholarship for track from Snow College, but declined in order to attend the BYU.
I was on the North Sevier basketball team for four years also, where I played forward and center. I earned my school letter for basketball and track.
When I was a junior in school, I had my drivers license suspended for three months for speeding 100 mph.
In 1967 I graduated from North Sevier High. At the time I was most interested in college and going on a mission. Sometime after graduation I talk to Bishop Mason about going on a mission. I made application to go sometime in January, 1968. This would give me time to get some college credit before I went and not interrupt a semester. I wanted to get as much credit done before I left so I decided to go to summer school and then the fall semester.
Geology was my major sense of subject interested me as did most sciences. It was during the fall semester that I met Lynda Heagle. She was in my geology class. At the time I wasn't too interested in girls, thinking of school and mission, but I'll but I was always interested some. We talked only briefly in class, but got to know each other through the field trips the class took. She lived in Helaman halls and so did I and after the first couple of trips we would walk to the halls together. After a few field trips we started showing interest in each other and along in November we were going steady. I got to go to California Christmas vacation to meet her family.
December 11, 1967 my brother's fiancé and son arrived from Germany and they were married the next day by my father. Her name was Marty's Zietlow and the boy was Frank.
December 24, 1967 I was ordained an Elder and then receive my mission call on January 4, 1968 to serve in the Australian mission. I finished my semesters work in January and went home for three weeks before my mission.
I received my endowments from the Manti Temple on 10 February 1968. My farewell from the ward was on February 18, where my entire family participated. February 19 I entered the Salt Lake Mission home. The day my brother had entered the home in 1962. I was there for a week and set apart by John Longden, an assistant to the 12. There were 12 elders going to my mission. Our farewell in the mission home with was on Sunday in the Tabernacle. My flight out wasn't until Tuesday, so I went home for a day.
I left the country on Tuesday, February 27, 1968 from the Salt Lake airport at 1 PM. My parents, grandmother and Lynda were with me, but my sister Kaye got there just after I left, so we missed each other. My first stop was in San Francisco for a few hours. Then Hawaii, Fiji And finally Sydney after 18 hours of flying. Pres. Smith and his wife met us at the airport. My first assignment was to Canberra. I write there on February 29 and was met by my companion Elder Przybyla from California. That night I had my first taste of missionary work. We tracted and checked out some member referrals. Our first contact was very rude to us and this sort of shocked me. Missionary work wasn't as easy as I had thought, and it was hard at first to recognize when people were sincere about finding out about the Gospel.
My first baptism was in April, Sister Frasier in Canberra. She had a few problems at home and such, but accept the Gospel well. I was here for four months. My next area was Queanbeyan where I was made a senior companion. Then I went to Sydney and was companion to the district leader. This was a much better area and an opportunity for my growth.
But most of the rest of my time in area surrounding Sydney. In Cronulla we baptized three people to member referrals. With one family I gained a testimony of fasting and how this principle can help in teaching an opening people's hearts. This one family was baptized after I left.
I was made a district leader in Hurstville. At this time the mission was experimenting by having to district leaders in one district. We baptizing taught various nationalities, baptizing a Lebanese man here.
In Harbord I had the opportunity to become a training elder. The ward chapel had burned down and the members were rebuilding it. Through member participation we had four baptisms, including our first complete Family, the Drumgold's. They had been referred by a member family and will quite receptive to us, asking for the first lesson even though we weren't prepared to presented at the time. They were baptized in four weeks, Mr. Drumgold giving up tea and alcohol before we presented that lesson, and all of them very willing to accept the challenges and very friendly towards us. They were the first ones baptized in the chapel.
I had a set back for a few days on my concentration on my work. Lynda wrote and expressed a desire to go out with other fellows. I had all sorts of of thoughts run through my mind and for a while really wanted to go home and clear things up. But I wrote and told her that it would be best for her to enjoy yourself and look around. I make a covenant with the Lord that if she was the one for me if I stopped worrying and worked very hard out there that should be waiting for me on my return.
The last eight months of the mission I felt was my most spiritual and successful time in my growth and dedication to my work. At this time again real testimonies of prayer and fasting and using my faith to accomplish tasks. The new Elder, Elder Owens, joined me and with him we had many good times. October 5, 1969, we baptized 5 very special people, Sister Cragg and four of the Gufforg's. We first met Sister Cragg some months before. She was very willing to accept the Gospel and be baptized, but her husband was very agnostic towards the church. After many months working with Mr. Cragg, we obtained his permission for his wife to be baptized. She was our most enthusiastic convert and we liked her very much. The Guffogg's were also very receptive and friendly to us. They were baptized three weeks after we started with them.
My last area was in Wollongong where I was a district leader and trainer again. This is a hard area although we met many fine people. On New Year's Day, 1970 we baptize the Cavalieri's, who had been a very good people to us.
I left Sydney the end of January 1970. Sister Cragg and another family came to see me off and Sister Cragg give me a beautiful kangaroo coat. It was a very nice time, but also very sad to be leaving. I came home a month early so I could get into the spring semester at the BYU. My parents, sister, grandmother and Lynda were at the airport to meet me. I came in with another Elder from Salt Lake and our suitcases were misplaced so he said he would pick them up when they came in.
We had one week before school started, so Lynda came home with us. We came back to Aurora, President Bosshardt officially released me from my mission. We returned to Provo the next weekend to get settled and register. I was again living in Helaman Halls.
School started again in February and it took me a while to get used to things again, like driving on the right side of the road and the time changes and such. Many of my weekends were spent in Aurora getting things settled. I reported my mission February 1970 and talked in a few other wards. I saw my family and friends again. My brother and his wife now had a new baby son Rycharn, and my sister had married Mark Plehn and were living in Provo.
In April Lynda and I went to California to take her endowments in the Los Angeles Temple. School finished in May and Lynda graduated in Elementary Education and Mark graduated in Law and German. After graduation we headed to California with a stop in Las Vegas to visit relatives. On June 4, 1970, Lynda and I were married for time and all eternity in the Los Angeles Temple by President Harless, first counselor. Both families and friends attended the wedding, with Marlin as best man and Lynda's sister as maid of honor and her other sister and friend as bridesmaids. We have the reception in Ventura that night, it was very good except Lynda measured me wrong for my tuxedo and it was too short all over. Lynda's sister decorated our car for us and we got showered with rice. While we were washing the car, our folks packed our gifts and cleaned up the hall. We then left for honeymoon staying in Santa Barbara first. Then up the coast to Oakland where we left all my clothes in the motel closet. We realize this when we got to Redlands, so we bought some new clothes and decided to head home to Lake Tahoe. We lived in Linda's old apartment for the summer while we went to school and worked weekends at the Y Center.
We moved in the fall to a new smaller apartment in Provo. Lynda started teaching in Granite District after the strike was settled. She teaches second grade at Lincoln elementary on 39th south. I went back to school, still in geology, and working part-time at the Y center and working with the track team. We are in the BYU 29th Ward which is an all married student ward where I am First Assistant to the Sunday School Superintendent and Lynda is serving as a visiting teacher.
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