Back and forth with Tom Rogers
It’s true that we who spend time in the Temple do so for higher and more eternal reasons than for the sake of the fellowship we find there. Temple service is a marvelous and multifaceted experience, replete with diverse blessings. At the same time, truth requires that we admit that that fellowship is by no means the least of the blessings that inhere in Temple service.
Several years ago, it was my great pleasure to “seal together” for a while—not nearly long enough—with Thomas F Rogers, who combines profound spirituality with one of the nimblest minds I’ve encountered in a life blessed by a number of such associations. If you think I’m going overboard here, just Google Tom and check out his amazing résumé.

After immersion in Charlie Decker’s story for an extended time, and remembering some of what Tom had told me, between sealing sessions, about his own pioneer family history, it occurred to me, early this year, that he got whisked away to Russia before we had a chance to do a decent job with our commonalities. So, I organized a supper gathering at Chankly for Tom and Merriam, Rick and Laura, Ron and Cyndi and Matthew, and Valerie and me.

We exchanged some written items, which I’ll file on Jobiska for your leisurely delectation at
Jobiska/Content Archive/SuchALife details/180320 Tom Rogers
The folder includes the full texts of several items we exchanged which are only mentioned in the correspondence that I’m about to cite:
  • “First Trump” a play in two acts by Thomas F. Rogers
  • The Book of Lehi by Thomas F. Rogers
  • The story of the miraculous healing of Lorenzo Dow Young in Kirtland, from the Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. XIV (1946), pp. 44-47
  • The Jumblies, by Edward Lear
  • I also gave him a copy of the Charlie Book, but it isn’t in the folder
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