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2014 wasn’t a total disaster, but Maggie, our darling senior granddaughter just barely beat the calendar deadline with her joyous nuptials. I’d rejoiced in the privilege of performing the marriages and sealings of dozens of adorable young people, over nearly a decade and a half of service as a sealer in the Boston and Bountiful Temples, but that came to a crashing halt with my thrombosis.
Yes, the Disaster of 2014 deprived me of my treasured position in the Temple. With a couple of nearby temples closed for a time, the temple president, Bob Garff, my esteemed cousin (by marriage) couldn’t manage with my slot on his staff empty, and he therefore released me as an active sealer. Even though he promised to restore my privileges as soon as I’d recover, that happy condition didn’t come until he’d completed his term of office and had himself been released. It’s years later, now, and Bob’s successors haven’t held out any expectation of making good on his commitment. Bob died 29 March 2020. |
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So nowadays, in 2020, I’m having a grand time as a temple patron (accompanying Valerie to her Thursday midday shifts) and continuing with my descendancy research, which clears each week for temple ordinances vastly more cousins than I can serve in my crippled person. I was actually obliged, some months ago, to “unreserve” the endowments of 4,400 cousins that my research had accumulated.
D’ye think I’m being punished for resisting past callings to Church service? The thought has occurred. |
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