We missed seeing Elder Logan Harmon, from St. Johns, at the MTC by a week. Elder Harmon is also serving in the Lubbock, TX mission with us but he is in Dalhart, about as far from Abilene as one can be.
Elder and Sister Duncan were in our district for the first week and stayed in our group the 2nd week since they were also CES missionaries. We became good friends. They are now working as missionaries in NY City at the Brooklyn Institute. Elder Duncan retired as a professor in the School of Family Life at BYU recently.
One day we were doing "relative finder" on the Family Search app with all the senior missionary couples around us. It turned out that Sister Duncan and Karen are 3rd cousins through the Terry family in Enterprise, Utah. We had an enjoyable dinner at the Duncans home one night and watched Pres. & Sister Nelson's YA World Wide Fireside on their comfortable couch.
These are out fellow CES Missionaries we studied with at the MTC. Elder Stockton had taught Seminary with Norman's cousin Eric Shields in California. It was fun to laugh and interact with Eric & Heidi Shields and the Stocktons at lunch in the MTC. I think we were the last ones out of the cafeteria that day. The Marshalls live just a few streets below where Karen grew up in the East Mill Creek Stake in SLC. Sister Marshall knew some of Karen's friends such as Liz & Craig VanLeeuwen, Karen's BYU roommate Jill Bunting, and she had been in the house where Karen grew up.
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