Life Story -- Childhood Feelings -- Grandma Anna

Written Sunday, March 16, 2008

Do you remember any special feelings you had as a child?  (Fears, fantasies, etc.)

"I was afraid of the dark, and still hate to stay alone at night.  I don't know what caused it, but it was really bad and still is.  When Linda has to be gone, I borrow one of her children to stay with me. 

"I also had fantasies of being a famous movie star or ice skater or a dance such as Ginger Rogers.  Boy was I ever good in those fantasies.  I still imagine them a little bit but generally I'm too busy to think of such things."

LIfe Story -- Mother's Traits -- Grandma Anna

Written March 14, 2008

What are your mother's best traits? Her worst? The ones you share?

"My mother had numerous best traits.
1- She was so gentle and kind to all her 16 children and everyone else and very gracious.
2- She was a good cook.
3- She was a wonderful seamstress.  Making beautiful things from almost nothing.
4- She was a beautiful lady.
5- She had a beautiful voice.
6- She could paint like a pro, but had little time for it.
7- She could make jams and jellies and all kinds of good things from the garden and never wasted a thing.
She had no worsts in my estimation.  I wish I could share all or 1/2 of those things but sorry I can't.  And only one of her daughters was as kind as she was.  That was my sister, Sibyl."

Life Story -- Literature -- Grandma Ann

Written Saturday, March 15, 2008

What is your favorite book?  What do books mean to you?

"The Book of Mormon is first and the Bible.

  I had a book called the Picture Book of the Life of Joseph Smith, but I gave it to our grandson, Ari Sluiter for Christmas.  It is very good and my den cupboard isn't big enough for all of the church books I have and I am still getting more.  I give some of them to  our children at Christmas time. 

The Work and the Glory is excellent.  All 9 volumes. If you pay attention yo will know when the things took place in the beginning of the Restoration.

  Also Gone with the Wind."

LIfe Story -- Lessons Learned -- Grandma Anna

Written Thursday March 13, 2008

What is the most important lesson, message, or advice you have learned that you would like pass on for others to profit by?

"To not date anyone that isn't a member of the church, and don't go with anyone that is lazy or threats you bad.  Get an education even if you have to work hard to get it.  And make sure the field you go into is in demand for help.  The most important lesson I have learned is that I didn't go to church ever if the kids made fun of my clothes.  It really has helped me after High School years because I have much compassion for the needy.  If all I had was a dime and someone needed it, I would give it to them."

Life Story -- Walking Main Street -- Grandma Anna

Written Wednesday March 12, 2008

Describe walking down main street of your home town.

"Main street used to be about 2 1/2 blocks long.  Now it extends over the top of the hill to the west and most of the business places are still in the older part of town.  There is Cowboy Brothers on the corner on the east end with a rock shop by it and a business office there.  On the opposite side there is a wellness story and the LDS dry pack cannery and a motel.  Then another motel and some kind of building selling odds and ends of things and a quick store and gas station on the other side of the street and 2 closed business places. Then a beauty shop and Circle K and station on the end of the block on the south side of the main street.  Then there is a funeral parlor and the juvenile detention center.  A restaurant on the next block there are probably 11 or 12 businesses on the west end of town.  It isn't a large place at all, just very small but we like it."

Life Story -- Church Callings -- Grandma Anna

Written March 10th, 2008

What church callings have your parents held?

"My dad was a seventy and went to different wards and towns teaching and preaching.  He was well versed in the Bible having been a Baptist before he joined the church (the true church).  My mother was a Sunday School and Primary teacher.  When she had a stroke the Primary children felt so bad they cried."

LIfe Story -- Life Change -- Grandma Anna

Written Sunday, March 9, 2008.
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Were there any events, world, local, or personal, that changed your life?

"Yes, many of them.  The most important being when the missionaries came to our home in 1957 and brought the gospel to us.  It was such a good thing and made such a complete change in our lives.  Personal is that I wanted to change my life for the better.  President Hinkley advised the women of the church to keep themselves looking nice and I try to do that, except when I wear my grubbies to do hard work in. 
Also, in 1968 I worked for the assessor's office for 12 years, then I became the assessor for 20 years. Then Bill and I retired at the same time.  We each worked 32 years, mine for the county and his for the city on Public Works.  We both enjoyed our jobs. 
Then we were given a mission calling to Concho, Arizona.  We have been serving there 13 years next month.  Probably the longest mission served in one place.  But if we stay 1 more year it will be 14 years, the same amount of time as Ammon served."