VOTING TIME

The last of the absentee ballots from Utah arrived in the mail today, a few of them because I nagged the elders to send for them.  They thought, since they are on missions, they were excused from that responsibility.  Once they had their ballots in hand, they required a little workshop on voting for the first time. I've been in a bit of a bubble myself, but at least I could get online and study the amendments, etc.  So we marked our ballots (without the benefit of a privacy booth), and will send them off tomorrow.  They requested pictures for their journals.  Being a career election judge, I DID NOT tell anyone how to vote,
but Elder Henderson did remark that I got double points for my team.

                                                                Elder Henderson

I attended a baptism Friday night of a 62-year-old man.  Here's his story.  He's single since the death of his wife and attended a high school reunion alone, where he reconnected with an old friend.  They started talking religion and he, I'll call him William, said he'd been studying with Jehovah's Witnesses for years, but had never felt comfortable joining their church.  She, Susan, told him she'd been baptized in the LDS Church 7 years ago.  He wanted to know more, so they continued the discussions via email after they returned home.  She finally told him that the missionaries could answer his questions better than she could, so he referred himself.  The missionaries who responded, sisters, would have called him "golden" if we still used that term.  His friend, Susan, came from San Diego to speak at his baptism, where all his children, and even his parents were in attendance.  Sweet spirit there.