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Show E AL V: Yes. But when I was young I did lots o 0 t d Clll . h littl it it over here in this country, too. I have done modem dane s to . h d u i th Third Ward. We'd go dancing with them. We were four coupl that w nt t th r t take dance lessons. That was lots of fun. That broke up too. Yeah we had a gr at d. The Third Ward got done away with. That's why-I was Seventies president th re and when we came into the 7th Ward, it just took them a little while before I was in again. I was made a High Priest in '67 or something like that, but they still wanted me to teach the Seventies, as it was at that time. Then I finally got taken out. I can tell you, I could see that picture, too, that that would be a problem, because the Seventies I was presiding over, Seventies, you couldn't get them to go on missions. They didn't want to go. They didn't feel that they could afford to go. I stayed and served seven stake missions myself and was called to number eight. I remember my wife was planning on, maybe, we should go to Denmark or to Germany or some place in Europe. She was gung-ho on that and I went down in the basement and called on the Lord and asked Him, "Where do you want me? What should I do with the mission?" When I came up, the telephone called. I took the telephone and he says you are called to a stake mission. Okay, so I told my wife, we are called on a stake mission. She never felt good about that. She went with me, but we went out and we tried to work and I called on people, but she was never gung-ho on it. Then, I got in trouble with my heart. Then, she said, "Now I understand why you were called on a stake mission." They had to release me. BEC: And you wouldn't have wanted to be out of the country at that time? AL V: Well, for the sake of the doctors, you know. The doctors here knew me. BEC: Right. 53 |
