The Real Elder Price The “Real” Elder Price, Part 1: The Missionary Training Center My husband and I spent two years in an MTC branch — where we met the “real” Elder Price and various “Mormon boys” on the first day of their missions. By Margaret Blair Young, December 08, 2011 Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of essays that examines the real world of Mormon missionaries and the real Elder Price. Read the author’s Introduction. The… Read more

The link to this inteview is here When I recorded this interview with Terryl, I knew that I was being divinely led on some productive adventures in Africa.  I knew I was making a film, though my original vision of what that film would be and who I would make it with were being re-shaped even as I spoke with Terryl. As I write this today, December 9, 2018, the film has become a truly African film and my place… Read more

  Congo Rising (www.congorising.org)  is now a 501c3 company. Here’s our first fundraiser as a 501c3! We focus on: SANITATION (compost toilets and hand-washing units.Compost is for use in tree groves.) ORAL HISTORIES AS LIBRARIES in a place with few books and no libraries. (The oral history center will be set up in cyber-cafes which the students will establish. Cyber cafes pay for their education.) We hire students to build, man, and maintain the sanitation stations and the cyber cafes,… Read more

Last year, we raised some money for school benches in a place where children sat either on the ground or on rocks. This year, we are getting more serious. Several of us spent a long time in Lodja, DR-Congo this past summer.  The most desperate need became clear: sanitation.  In the general hospital, fifteen people die every month of malaria or of typhoid fever and other diseases related to poor sanitation.  Consider that those who died in the hospital likely… Read more

DO YOU SEE?   (1) For those who don’t know the play, here’s a brief introduction:   (a) Twins (Sebastian and Viola) shipwrecked, separated (each thinks the other has drowned); both come on the shores of Illyria but neither runs into the other; Viola dresses as her brother (and passes as a man) for protection; goes into service with Duke Orsino   (b) Duke Orsino is in love with Countess Olivia, who won’t give him the time of day  … Read more