Feb 15, 2010

Tell about your first date.

I honestly don’t remember my first date but I know that it was with Marie. I had liked her for several years before she turned 16 and we had hung out together at dances and her home. Most of the time at her home it was while standing outside next to her window and talking to her through the window. I do remember however when we went on dates after we were both 16 years of age that we would often sit in the car and talk after getting back to her home. I also remember very well the signal that her mom and dad would send so that we knew it was time to get out of the car. Dad would turn off and then on again a couple of times the front porch light. It was not ignored either as I would then get out of the car and then let her out and sometimes walk her to the porch. I don’t think I went to the porch very often though since I knew her dad would be standing just inside the front door waiting.

Feb 14, 2010 Valentines Day

Tell about a special Valentine you once received.

Marie gave me several valentines that I always liked and below are two pictures of ones that she sent to me while I was in the mission field.

Feb.13, 2010

Tell about a special Valentine you once sent.

I really don’t remember any of the special valentines. I do remember going to the store, “Kohls” and buying valentines in a box then having to lay them all on the table and decide which ones to give to certain people. Of course the girls got the pretty ones and the boys got the stupid ones.

Feb 12, 2010

Tell about the Valentine Day festivities at your school.

Duchesne had one tradition that I remember about Valentines and I hated it because I just couldn’t ever make a winning Valentines Box to put on my desk so everyone could put their valentines to me into it. We had a lot of long nights prior to Valentines writing every girl’s name in the class on a special valentine even when I really didn’t like the girl at all anyway. Oh well it was a tradition and you have to go along with traditions. I must admit it was much easier when Marie started getting them from me. However I think more than Valentines from her were the love noted in shorthand that she would give me and then make me figure out what they said. I did like those notes.

Feb 11, 2010

Who was your first girlfriend?

I can’t really say I had a girlfriend quite as soon as I actually thought I did since I don’t know if any of the first three even thought about me. However I did like Ione Hooper, LeaAnn Weber (pronounced Webber) then Karla Lewis. I think LeaAnn liked me more than I liked her in that relationship and I was 12 when I liked Karla, I remember that because I use to get her folks fast offering route and got to go to her place always hoping she would answer the door. It was shortly after that when I first saw Marie and then they all just vanished from my thoughts because she was so darn cute and very pretty also and I fell head over heels for her.

Feb10, 2010

What was your favorite meal as a child?

I think I related that my favorite meal was bread and milk after sacrament meeting. That was my favorite but not my only one. I loved steak, corn on the cob and baked potatoes.

Mashed potatoes came in pretty close after that but I the taste of the baked potato skin with real butter dripping out the end was really a great taste as far as I was concerned. Those kind of baked potatoes have given way to microwave baked and the skins just never get crispy and hard enough to scrape the potato put of them and then replace it with the butter to eat. Yes that was truly some darn good eatin.

Feb 9, 2010

Tell about a big lie you told.

I am sure I told probably many a lie in my youth but I am blessed to not be able to remember very many in fact I can only think of one right at this moment. My family went over to Price for some reason one day to shop. I remember seeing some glitter that was really neat so I stole it, yes I stole it and got away with it so I thought but the memory of it has haunted me through the years. I was never able to right it because that was the only time we went shopping in Price and I couldn’t even tell you the store or anything about it. That I guess was a lie because I never did fess up to it to my parents. In fact I doubt whether they even ever knew about it but I knew and it has always stuck with me.

Feb 8, 2010

Tell about another influential person in your life.

There were many very influential people in my as I was growing up and my Grandparents also took a very high role in that. Yet another person of whom I have referred to many times over the years when working with scouts was Sister Beverly Caldwell. Beverly moved to Duchesne with her husband Lowell and family the year that I was a senior in high school. She was somehow alerted to the fact that I was not an Eagle Scout and that the whole reason was because I couldn’t swim, remember the near drowning early in my life, anyway she saw to it that I learned to swim. She was a professional lifeguard and took me personally swimming in Starvation Reservoir, and the Roosevelt and Price pools. She spent a lot of time with me those summer days before my 18^th birthday. I had a 7 day a week job from 10 pm to 6 am and we would go swimming just after I finished the chores in the morning or early in the evening before I would have to return to work. I completed those merit badges, swimming and lifesaving, and passed the Eagle Board of Review just 4 days prior to my birthday. I know to this day I would not have been an Eagle Scout without her love and dedication.

Feb 7, 2010

Tell about someone who had a big influence in your life.

When I think about an answer to this question the obvious best first answer was my Mother and Father. However other than them I must write that the Hansen’s were very high on the list. First Sister Hansen was my first Cub Scout Leader and I spent a lot of hours in her home with Doug and Don, her sons, for many years after that because of the relationship I had built with their family at that time. The just a few years later after cub scouts I was lucky enough to have Ray Hansen as my scoutmaster for a couple of years and as a caring friend for many years after that. He was one of the major driving factors in getting me to my Eagle Rank in scouting. That was why Loren had the middle name of Ray, in honor of my scoutmaster.

Feb 6, 2010

Who was the most famous person you ever met as a child?

I was never lucky enough I guess to meet anyone famous as a youth. I saw General authorities come to Stake Conferences but do not ever remember meeting any of them at the time. Of course later in my early adulthood I met Pres. Harold B Lee. I didn’t put that into my earlier post since I had forgotten about it until I started thinking about my mission again. We did as missionaries meet in the upper room of the Salt Lake Temple where Pres. Lee spoke to us and answered questions that we had. I only shook his hand for a brief moment but it was a special moment.