Pondering The Blessings~ And "The City of Enoch"

This past ten days I was able to work out of town with follow up on the U.S. Census, 2010. My team crew co-workers were a delight to be with. The time spent with them was one of unity and camaraderie.

It was a special experience to enjoy their company. The are some of the very most incredible women. They was an air of unity and after spending time with them for three days. We didn't want the fun to end. I feel honored to have been working with such choice sisters, women.

Honestly, it was a delight to be comfortable to have some time in finishing up our questionnaires while after having a morning prayer and asking a blessing on our food in one of the rooms where we happened to be finishing up our work. It was very natural to ask if we could have a blessing on the food and on our work with one another. Our day went great and I realized how much it made a difference in the things that were accomplished in our effort to follow through with the questionnaires. People just seemed to show up at the right place and the right time. There was also a cool breeze in Cedar City. that came through. Can you believe that even after the temperature being 112 degrees in St. George a few days earlier.

I noticed the hot dry heat as my work took me to the downtown but residential area while in St George. I was so intent in driving up and down the streets looking for specific houses that I was not aware that I was just a block away from the Saint George Temple! I, all of a sudden looked up and there was the temple so close. It dawned on me that my assignment happened to include the apartments directly across the street from it.

There was one place I went to find the resident while it was still late evening, although it was still day light and the sun had not yet set. I was there talking to a sweet sister who had quite a nice story to tell me.

She was a widow (of ten years) and had come from California to work on her beloved husband's family history/genealogy. She, Sister Richards, was so kind and caring toward me, that it was most gratifying. She talked about her mission in which she had served with Elder Richard G Scott as a young missionary in Uruguay. She even spoke in Spanish and it surprised her afterward to have me respond to her back in Spanish. She was just s little bit of a thing and very frail looking. I got her life story voluntarily too. She gave me a bag of all kinds of goodies to take with me. She had a small container of cabbage Cole slaw. She also had a miniature cucumber, and cookies. She did manage to encourage me to take and gave some to me to take home. I was very touched by her attitude and generosity.

I recall how beautiful the St. George Temple looked at night; and as women felt "free to attend the temple." Unfortunately that was the last day to work in St. George, but I was glad to have been able to serve there with the census. The weather was quite warm, and I saw that the lady from Southern California. Maybe I can go another time to actually attend a temple session.

There was small community in Enoch, just north of Cedar City, which is where the cool breeze came. It seemed an odd name to give a small town, which was Enoch. I was not able to get a history of this small community, but it looked like an up and coming place in the years to come. The homes were about thirty years old, and then there were other new construction and developments with new homes in the building stages. I saw a few contractors out on their jobs. I was able to wrap up the project I was there to do and finished up to drive through the nearby national park.
More later. . . .