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Stories: Always Dear John-?
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| I left Salt Lake City on my way to the Southern States Mission with a group of about six other guys in the summer of 1967. Like most of them I left a sweet young girl waiting patiently for my return. We each assured each other that if it was meant to be the girl would wait and we would marry. I don't think very many of us were really sure of the actual outcome. But somehow I knew that my girl was an exception. You see, she was pointed out to me by inspiration. No kidding! While working in M-Men & Gleaners representing our individual wards, we had spoken only briefly. But one evening while preparing packages for needy families at Christmas time, I was struck by a vivid, while not loud, voice in my mind telling me to "go get acquainted". Thinking this to only be a distraction caused by her apparent beauty, I shrugged it off. Subsequently, twice more that evening the voice came and repeated exactly. Not wanting to offend even a messaging angel, I went and formally introduced myself. We were like old friends meeting again after a short absence. Within a few weeks we were engaged. She was willing to wait for me, even after having once waited for a previous young elder. How could she be so nieve?
Well, to make a long wonderful mission story short, each time the other brothers would get a Dear John letter, they would ask about my Sandy. After a while they just stopped asking and started making facial expressions like a question to which I gave the OK sign with my thumb and index fingers. Out of our group I was the only one whose fiance actually waited. While they all doubted, I knew without reassurance we would wed in the LA Temple, because we had a testimony of the Spirit before I left that we had known each other before entering the world. Now after 32 years of marriage, we look forward to our future ressurrection when she will be free of the wheelchair she has lived in from her youth and we will dance together just as suredly as I knew back then that she would not write a Dear John to me! |
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