Journal January 24, 1963 |
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My year on the mission staff was vastly more eventful than these journal entries indicate. My daily routine of writing, editing, and layout work was functionally similar to journalizing. I hope to find at least some of its published output. Storekeeping and baptismal font maintenance didn’t motivate many entries, either. I was in charge of the Mission’s rather splendid Rolleiflex camera, but the pictures I took with it didn’t come home with me. I was (ask Valerie) a fairly faithful correspondent, though, and as I come across letters surviving from the period, I’ll interpolate selected material here.
Speaking of letters, mine took on a new appearance, once Ella had gone home and Elder Lynn Bybee, the mission printer, became my assigned companion. Red sealing-wax and light-weight violet paper, created by Elder Bybee, replaced the more conventional stationery and envelopes. As a stamp collector, moreover, I took full advantage of the beautiful large-format postage stamps that the PTT (Postes-Téléphone-Télégraphe) was issuing in those days. I’ll insert a partial scan of one of those letters, by Valerie’s leave. |
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