Mission Stories and Experiences
Chuck Miller Submitted the Following,
He served under President Flake 1980-1982:
I finally
was able to make a trip back to the mission area this summer (it’s been 20
years).
I was
quickly reminded why I didn’t like summer there.
While we
were there it was unseasonably hot and humid during the day
and hai
I am sure
the Lord did this just for my amusement.
The towns
don’t look the same,
but I was
able to meet with Helen Swictenberg of
Elder Passey and I baptized her 20 something years ago.
Ya know
it is said ‘how great shall be your joy’,
she has
submitted thousands of names to the temple,
and ended
up renting to the missionaries for 10 + years.
When I took
my kids to visit her,
she had
pictures of all the elders and sisters she rented to,
and an
interesting story about all of them from happy, funny to sad.
Along with their wedding announcements, baby announcements and such.
I wish now
I would have recorded it.
While I was
on my mission serving in
I found her
name on a 3x5 card stuck in the back of a drawer
I pulled
out to clean in a desk as I was waiting for my
Incoming missionary transfer.
I picked
him up and we went, almost immediately, to follow up on the card.
Helen
answered the door and almost immediately said “what took you so long”.
Apparently
a previous missionary set had found her and
then
because she had become unavailable due to some
surgeries
they lost contact with her (I think for a year or two).
Then when
the time was right the bal
She
accepted the gospel and was baptized.
Later on,
it even turns out that a missionary, Elder Benbrook,
from my
ward here in
her when
he was in the mission field. (Small world, eh!).
Submitted by
There was a memory of
President Lloyd Cope that was shared at his funeral. He was traveling around
the mission with the AP's and decided to stop for lunch at McDonald's. He read through the menu and saw "Happy Meal." He didn't know what it was, but he ordered
one to make him feel good! (As recalled by Sister Linnea Huber Cardon)