I began teaching the twelve year olds in Sunday School and was soon on the Sunday School Stake Board. This made it difficult to visit my assigned ward once a month but the hours were different so I didn’t have to leave my class too often. Once a month all the ward teachers, in that age group came to a Union Meeting and we were to give them ideas how to teach the lessons for the following month. That was easy but I hated to give a talk each month in a different ward. I challenged the class to read the Book of Mormon and the first one to read it, I would present them with their own book. Many in the class accepted the challenge. It has been a thrill, through the years, to feel close to the kids I taught.
When Bill Squires reported his mission he said that while in the mission field someone asked him a question and he didn’t know the answer. All at once, in his mind’s eye, he could see me standing before the class and answering that question. I often wondered if the things I taught had been remembered.
This was the first I became acquainted with Rex Jensen. He was in the Sunday School. Presidency in his ward and when I went to Burton to visit he always had time to visit and joke with me. Who would have thought that I would eventually marry Rex.
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