Glen and Lynne Tolman Missionary Blog

On Saturday the 24th we had our first snowstorm.  We can also now enjoy the Christmas lights on Temple Square which started on Friday the 23rd at 5 pm. This week we had a shortened work week at the library due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.   We worked a full day on Tuesday from 8 to 4, four hours on Wednesday from 5 to 9 pm and a full day on Saturday from 1 to 9 pm with 6 to 9 m at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building (JSMB) at the Discovery Floor. Sunday Nov 18 We enjoyed Music and the Spoken Word with a Thanksgiving theme.   We attended Church as usual. We are encouraged to volunteer to feed the Young Elders from time to time on Sunday evenings.   Today Five Young Elders arrived for dinner.   Sister Tolman fixed artisan bread, egg drop soup, pork wontons, and Chow Mein.   I have an amazing chef for a missionary companion.   The Young Elders left us the following thank you note. We watched two episodes of Relative Race Season 4 on BYUtv.   We have seen the first

Sunday Nov 11 Today is Veterans Day.   This day celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the signing of   the armistice that ended WWI.   We attended a moving “Music and the Spoken Word” this morning with the Choir, Orchestra and Bells at Temple Square.   The focus was on Veterans Day.   I recognize the WWII service of my father Glen Hatch Tolman in the Army.  Sister Tolman's father Rowland Senior served in the Navy at the end of WWII.    I also remember this day seven years ago when our daughter Kim married Neil Saravan.   This was a happy, happy day for her. I couldn’t hold back the tears as the choir finished their program by singing “God Be With You Til We Meet Again”. Flags on display for Veterans Day in the Tabernacle Picture with the Bells on Temple Square group in the lighted area I have also been thinking about how I have been greatly blessed in my life.   I read about President Eyrings’s struggles with math and physics in his early years at a university and

Weekly Update from Sister Tolman This week was one of a little sadness but overall happiness.  It was my last week to answer telephones at the Church Office Building in the Missionary Department but I didn’t know it.  I walked in and they told me my new schedule through the end of this year and into next year.  I knew that wouldn’t work with the new position of assistant zone leaders and our Tuesday afternoon meetings.  Jamie, the person in charge came in and I told her what was going on.  She looked at the schedule and said “This is your last day.”  Kind of hard but I could see the hand of the Lord preparing the way for this to happen.  A new person is starting this coming week. On Friday two women came in they were mother and daughter.  I helped the daughter and her name was Kyra Johnson and her mother’s name was Mrs. Johnson.  They were both African American and they knew a lot about their family.  I was very impressed with how many names and dates they knew.  We started sea