Mentors and Visitors

We have enjoyed getting reacquainted with Merle and Carol Allen. Elder Dye was unaware that we knew each other when he assigned them to mentor us. Elder Allen was our third bishop when we were in the Mesa 20^th ward. Carol and I served in Young Women together for a year or two. When George was a counselor to Bishop Udall, Merle was the Deacons’ Quorum advisor. George enjoyed Merle’s lessons to the deacons.

Elder and Sister Allen have served at least three other missions. They were called to Hawaii where Merle taught law classes at BYU Hawaii right after he retired and Carol did tutoring.They were in Hong Kong as humanitarian  missionaries and traveled all around that area. They served a mission at the MTC organizing over 400 volunteers that aide in missionary work. They came to Cove Fort last fall.

We have had a total of nine visitors and haven’t seen a one of them! Keith and Diane Tempest stopped by on their way to St. George while we were in a training meeting. Brad and his family stopped by on their way to Las Vegas to help LaDonna move.  We were at a party to welcome the six new couples to the Fort.  Carol Allen was acquainting the group with us when Brad called that they had arrived at the Fort.  The dinner was at the Twig building. We hold our activities and our church meetings at the Twig building across the street from the Fort. We are not big enough to be a branch, hence, the twig.