The bird is learning to talk and I have been a deacon for 3½ months. Uncle Marv’s new baby Whitney was blessed today and I got to hold the microphone. I love passing fast offerings and I like passing the sacrament and holding the microphone. They split the deacons quorum last week and I was made first counselor in quorum 2. Ken was made secretary in quorum 1. He does not like passing the sacrament, collecting fast offerings, or having a lower calling than me. He is glad to soon be a teacher in the priesthood. I have a home teaching companion. “President” Shumway is his name. I like him.
Roger Shumway Sr. was a counselor in the Stake Presidency for most of my youth and lived in the house west of Marv and Patty on 1935 South – one street south of us. He taught me a lot as a deacon about doing my duty as a home teacher.
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