Never Give Up

I am writing a personal blog entry in Word even though my internet connection is down until a generous neighbor can come tonight and hopefully restore it.

Let me report on Tyson’s wedding. (For blog readers who are not Bodily family members Tyson is Elena’s nephew. Even those readers may find the first paragraph below mildly interesting.)

The wedding was excellent on all fronts. The first event was a dinner held Friday evening after Tyson and Jana’s Temple Endowment session (at the Bountiful Temple.) By coincidence this was held at the chapel that Elena attended while she and I were engaged. As I told anyone who would listen Friday night, 45 years ago Elena and I attended a fireside in that chapel one Sunday evening. In fact Elena’s uncle Alma with whom she was living right across the street was conducting the program and Elena was accompanying on the piano for a musical number before the Fireside speaker. Well, after the musical number, Elena and I were too anxious to be together and slipped out and went across the street to her apartment. After about an hour of talking, I proposed to her. In a few minutes Uncle Alma came home and sternly criticized us for leaving early. Of course, he was correct in almost all circumstances. We were not ready to tell anyone we were engaged yet. We wanted to get the ring first. That happened two nights later. So we took the criticism without complaint and announced the engagement Tuesday night.

The same chapel had earlier held the reception for Seldon and Carol Owens and Doug and Karen Anderson.

The actual wedding between Jana and Tyson occurred in the Salt Lake Temple shortly after 10AM on Saturday morning September 6th. As always there is nothing to match the feeling accompanying a temple wedding. A brother Richards conducted the ceremony and gave the couple some wonderful advice which he acknowledged they probably would not remember, but those of us in attendance got a refresher course on how to live happily married. Family members in attendance included LouAnn and Ivan, Wayne and Elena and Ron and Laurene.

Later there were pictures on the temple grounds. The picture taker was Erin Hoffman’s good friend, John. More family joined us here – Amanda Hoffman along with Shane. Alanya Hoffman Silver with her Husband Dan, and Ryan Hoffman.

Three hours later there was a three hour reception held at a picnic area in a canyon area north of Salt City. More family members attended including Kirk, Kathy, Julia and Jon Larsen. Doug and Karen Anderson. Carol Owens and her son Fred and maybe some more I have forgotten. The couple looked very happy. Many of Jana’s family were there including her father from Michigan.

They went to southwestern Colorado to some cabin her family had in a timeshare for a week long honeymoon.

The whole weekend was a very happy time!

Thanks for the report dad.

Sounds wonderful. We wished we could have made it. I LOVED your engagement story. I love to hear about other couples courting and engagment.