We have now been at Cove Fort for over three
months. I only mention this
because during that time I have walked to the fort along the highway almost
every day. During that time there
had only been one car stop to ask me if I needed a ride. That is until this past week, when a
Utah State Trooper pulled over to see if I was walking by choice or if I needed
a ride. I told him that I was
impressed that he stopped since he was the first male to have done so. And who says that chivalry isn’t dead?
Cove
Fort Days is soon to be upon us.
Preparations are starting to go into full swing with new signs and
posters popping up around the fort.
Stephen had made the suggestion that they should send out notices about
it to all the non-LDS churches in the area. Our director really liked the idea so all of a sudden I
found myself implementing it and sending out thirty flyers to churches between
Fillmore and Manti south to Panguitch.
It will be interesting to see how many people actually show up. Sis. C., with all of the advertising
that they are doing, ordered another thousand hot dogs to make sure that there
will be enough for everyone. She
is hoping that there will be five thousand people here over the two-day event.
Family
Home Evening was different than in the past. We actually got to have a little fun as we had a game
night. We played a card game
called Five Crowns. It seems to be
very popular in Utah as they had a lot of the people here who had the decks to
play with. We played a couple of
rounds and then we changed tables so we were able to play with various people
during the evening. They had a
closing prayer at 8:30 thinking that most of the people might want to go home
to bed, but they were surprised that most everyone stayed to finish the game.
It
was nice to have a game night, so we tried to do an impromptu one on Friday
evening at the Twig. Stephen and I
set up a table and pulled out all the games that we could find. We were a bit disappointed in the
turnout that was zero. I guess
people don’t function as well as we do on the spur of the moment, but we’ll try
it again and give them a little more notice. We may have to wait until after Cove Fort Days are over to
get it going.
Stephen’s
sister, Shelley, and a friend of hers drove down for a visit on Tuesday
morning. They were here visiting
historical sites, the friend was a recent convert and wanted to see all the
sites in SLC, so we said that they should come see our historical fort. Stephen gave them a tour of the fort
and the outbuildings before it was time to go home for lunch and see them off
on their way. It was nice that
they took the time to come and visit since it really isn’t all that close to
SLC.
Our
P-day adventure this week was relatively close to home as we spent it in Beaver
and Beaver Canyon. We visited the
Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum that is housed in the Old County
Courthouse. They had some
interesting displays many of which I will have to go back later to see since
Stephen really isn’t much of a museum guy. We did get to see the large flag that had been on the
Battleship Utah in Pearl Harbor. I
was impressed to see it at this little museum so I asked how they had got
it. The Utah Senator at that time,
Abe Murdock, was given the flag.
Since he was from Beaver County, he donated the flag to Beaver High
School who then gave it to the County Museum. The ladies there were very excited to tell me all that they
could about the things on display.
The first one I spoke to asked me where home was and I said Clovis, California. She said that her daughter just went
into the mission field and was serving in New Mexico (?) and that her trainer
was a Sis. Burnett from Clovis?
Anyone know if that is Jeannie Burnett’s daughter?
While
we were at the public library (I was looking up geocaches for later in the day)
I saw a lady that I had taken on a tour a couple of weeks ago. She was asking to use the library
computer and the librarian wanted to charge her to do so. She didn’t have any money so I asked
Stephen to give her some money since he was using one of their computers and
hadn’t been asked to pay. I’d
really like to know why they were charging her and not Stephen. Anyway, the lady was happy to be able
to get on and check her email. If
all went well yesterday, she should have been baptized into the church.
One
of the best tours I had this week were with a LDS mother and a grown
daughter. They were on a
genealogy/family history trip looking for information on Amasa Lyman, an early
Mormon pioneer. I was so impressed
that they were traveling together working on such a great project. The mom was a convert so she was
struggling to get the work done for the ancestors on her side. I told her how lucky she was to have a
daughter working with her. I
mentioned that I too was a convert.
I mentioned that my children were not all that interested in helping
search for people on my lines. I
even told them how one of my sons actually has an interest but he spends his
time researching information on his wife’s family. I just can’t seem to catch a break.
Next week we will post the pictures from this afternoon's visitors.
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