2013—Pappy’s Pen & Pencil
Set When our beloved Pappy retired from his life career as a teacher of languages, culture, and literature, the college (Crafton Hills, in Yucaipa, by that time) presented him with this handsome gold-finish pen-and-pencil set, adorned with diamonds and engraved with his name.
In 1995, when he exchanged the professor’s jacket and (despised) tie for robes of glory, it reposed in his desk, in the Olivewood Lane condo in San Bernardino. It fell to me to rescue it and to cherish it as a keepsake. Set
I got good use from it to mark the documents that signified that I had completed sealings in the Temple and kept it in the pocket of my white jacket. Once, though, I left it on the desk in the sealing room, whence it was returned to that evening’s coordinator, Alden Rigby, who recognized the engraved name and returned it to me. The Rigbys, it seems, had replaced Pappy and Norma as missionaries in Sri Lanka in 1980. As is typical of missionary yokefellow alumni, the two couples regarded each other highly.

Yet another bit of priceless Temple-mediated fellowship. I believe in serendipity,* but not coincidence.
*From Serendib, an ancient name for Sri Lanka—Ceylon.
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