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Show 72-2- I was just beginning to r e a l i z e that wish and hope, faith and belief, dream and v i s i o n are a l l members of the same spectrum, converting thought to r e a l i t y . I had taken to reading my grandfather's journal, and packed i t to take with us on our vacation into the Northwest, because I could not stop reading ut even though I intended to concentrate on Brian and on making a decision about our marriage. Grandfather Harvey's l i f e deserves (and will probably someday have) a book of i t s own. He was at once a t e l l e r of risque s t o r i e s and a loyal member of the Church. He was capable of taking a bribe to vote for a certain member of the l e g i s l a t u r e while serving as a Wyoming s t a t e senator and of renouncing the faith of anyone who would t r u s t in a human being instead of the Lord. In short, Grandfather Harvey was human. He made mistakes when he was young and acquired wisdom and humility with age. He had entered the P r i n c i p l e in 1893, three years after the Manifesto was signed, t r a v e l l i n g to Mexico with my grandmother to f u l f i l l the commandment and the orders of Church President Joseph F. Smith. His l i f e had been spangled with remarkable events - remarkable providences, some would call them.„-It began when k a a g j u ^ u ^ f t ^ w B ^ H ^ in his native j s t . Charles, I«k***--sLw-iread~*^^ s , ' a x e ' J a r r e d l 0 ° S e ' f CaMe c a a ^ p ^ ) ^ ^ off Grandfather's'nose. BfcreHwiriHwnm times in my l i f e when I have wished that my OffiLjaama^^e-nose would meet som| such-mishap so that I c W ^ j u s t i f ? " r h i n o p l a s t y (I gave Ay nose f u l l credit for having lcat-ae-Wrhoffle-coffiing queen-contest in my l a s t year of^high ^ f f i . h n r x i f i e d as I read of how blood- spurted in |