Finding Joy

Doctrine and Covenants, section 89, promises that those who keep the Word of Wisdom and walk in obedience to the commandments “shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures.” (D&C 89:18-19)

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The Chosen Ones

In her third grade, Marjorie’s principal, Mr. Schroder, began a square dance program. Marjorie loved elementary school because she got to square dance each day. For three years she got to square dance. She looked forward to school.

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They Don’t Make ’em Like They Used To

When I was very little, probably about three or four, I have a dim memory of going with my mother to the Haines Food Center which occupied the space to the south of the post office. She did all of her grocery shopping there. The Helmers ran the store. My dim memory is of going there to access the food locker that Mom and Dad rented. Back in those days no one owned a freezer. In order to freeze the meat that you butchered on the farm, you rented a food locker. Marjorie similarly remembers her uncle, Tom, having a food locker at Jackson’s Food Market, where he put the deer that he got every year.

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