By Jonathan H. Westover
After returning home from my mission, I worked in a factory for five months to save up college tuition money.  My job was to assemble suspension systems for tractor trailers.  In a ten-hour shift I could assemble 30-40 suspension systems and send them on their way to the welders stationed right next to me.  The work was tedious and the physical working conditions were poor. 

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By Lin Floyd

Have you discovered “blogging” on the Internet? Although I’m somewhat computer literate (my technologically-savvy son would laugh at that self-description), I’ve avoided blogging. Not understanding what a weB LOG was all about, I thought it was just another webpage to publish on the Internet with the option of getting comments from others. Feeling it was a waste of time to put my daily thoughts on the web, I’ve spent all my efforts on the Internet pursuing family history. I have uploaded my ancestors’ photos and histories to create a webpage1 (which was a huge stretch for me but with the help of another son who was in high school at the time, I learned how to do it.)

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