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From: Jason Bagley <jasonbagley@mac.com>
To: "eebagley@gmail.com" <eebagley@gmail.com>
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:55:44 -0800

Congratulations on your civilian status. Does the church have witness protection program you can enter to avoid further callings?

Who's the new stake president?

On Dec 9, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Errol Bagley <eebagley@hotmail.com> wrote:

Today Elders Uchtdorf  and Olsen came to the Mesa North Stake and released us as a stake

 

presidency and called a new one. In the church even in very visible callings you need not get

 

an over inflated sense on your importance as you will be replaced and the church will go on just

 

fine in your absence.

 

It is one of the miracles of the church to see two brethren who do not know anyone in the

 

stake come for two days, reorganize the stake, fly out, and the church goes on almost as if

 

nothing happened.

 

In addition to the wonderful spiritual messages Elder Uchtdorf has a sharp sense of humor that

 

endeared him to his listeners. After twenty seven and half years I will get to sit with my wife

 

again in sacrament meetings.

 

Dec. 9  07

 

Today Elders Uchtdorf  and Olsen came to the Mesa North Stake and released us as a stake

 

presidency and called a new one. In the church even in very visible callings you need not get

 

an over inflated sense on your importance as you will be replaced and the church will go on just

 

fine in your absence.

 

It is one of the miracles of the church to see two brethren who do not know anyone in the

 

stake come for two days, reorganize the stake, fly out, and the church goes on almost as if

 

nothing happened.

 

In addition to the wonderful spiritual messages Elder Uchtdorf has a sharp sense of humor that

 

endeared him to his listeners. After twenty seven and half years I will get to sit with my wife

 

again in sacrament meetings.

 

Dec. 9  07

 

A Day That Made A Difference

Sometime back in the early 70's my brother Jerry and I were building a Red Barn Store about one mile East of Dubios Wyo. We were partners in this venture with Jerry putting up all the capital in the beginning as I didn't have any.

Jerry was interesting to work with. He could do almost anything, perhaps not to exacting standards, but he would do it just the same.

We had the floor poured with the help of a hippy couple that he had secured that spring and the day came that we were going to put up the walls.

Jerry had a conflict that day and had to be in Jackson so he told me to take the hippy couple and go get the walls up on the building. This building was only about 20' by 30'. I had never framed anything in my life.

Jerry took some paper and drew me a diagram of how you frame each wall laying down on the concrete and then you raise it up in place. The top of the wall has a double plate which hangs over 3 1/2 inches on one wall and you cut it short 3 1/2 inches on the wall coming into it so they overlap and you can secure them together. You also have your door and window openings measured and framed in while the wall is on the the floor.

With all the confidence of an older brother telling me I could do it and a piece of paper showing me how,off I went to Dubios with the hippy couple and by the end of the day all the walls were up to the square.

Framing is not brain surgery but I can't remember any days in my life when I gained more self confidence in a single day the day I raised a small building to the square.

There were no buliding codes or inspections in Dubios so when it came time to make a septic tank Jerry ordered a 58 Chevy Impala from the wreaking yard. We had a hole dug behind the barn big enough for the Chevy and in it went. The sewer line from the barn was then brought out and put through a partially opened side window of the Impala and then it was covered with dirt. I don't know how many years that lasted but it worked fine as long as I knew about it.

I later traded my interest in the Dubios Red Barn for a townhouse that I had got for Jerry in Mesa. I still have the townhouse. Errol

Grover Floods

Unlike the Katrina victums who only got flooded once,in the Grover house we had a flood once every spring. I not sure we knew this when Dad bought the ranch --not that it would have make any difference . The first year must have been quite a suprise. After that we just prepared.The house was built on the same level as the meadow and as the snow melted each spring the water level rose several feet in the basement.We would move food in the food room to higher shelves remove any other items from the floor and hang it on the walls.A pair of irrigation boots were put on the top steps so one could venture to the food room without getting wet.As the water reseaded to a few inches we employed a sump pump to keep it out.

Since the Grover house had only one bathroom a metal shower stall was installed in the basement.This was particularly helpful in the summer time when we bathed more than once a week.The moisture in the basement did attract reptilian critters. We had small frogs and at least one snake. It was best to check the floor just before you stepped out of the shower least you step on one of these basement dwellers.

Talks over the years

Dear Family,

It is sometimes said you are in my thoughts. May I say you are in my talks.Over the past 20 years I have given many talks. In one way or another you have all been in them. My talks almost always include some rememberance from my family,childhood,ranch life,ancestors,tractors,airplaine crashes,climbing the Tetons,home cooking,growing up in rural Wyoming,cows, horses,brothers and sisters,the Oregon trail, double dexter washing machines and any other thing that I could possibly stretch into a gospel subject.

I possibly should have quit on these stories early but people kept encoraging me. Some of course with the polite good talk Brother Bagley, but many with the we always look forward to your talks because they are so differnt and interesting .

President West was even polite in finding something nice to say after I gave my "Never buy new cars or trucks--Always rent when you are going to drive a lot of miles in a short time talk" in stake general priesthood meeting. My bridge to this subject was provident living. It was a bit of a stetch but it became my most requested talk for copies.

I have to admit that more often than not I had some story I wanted to tell and I find a gospel subject to fit with it.

Our last stake conference was my favorite. The gospel subject was repentance. I mixed into this talk the sights and smells of Monday washday in Grover. This included discribing the Double
Dexter washing machine, the wringer, the rinse tubs, the cloths line with sometimes frozen cloths on it. I wove into these images the priniples of repentance and becoming clean. Towards the end as I have done in some of my talks I sang a song---- Ye Simple Soals Who Have Strayed. There is a bit of a risk in trying to sing in the middle of a talk especially if you have become emotionally involved in the message. I love this song so I took the risk.

Anyway. I wanted to thank you all including my parents and grandparents who have contrubuted to the material that I use and will continue to use till someone stops me and says enough already Bagley

Seasons Greeting to you all, Errol

Brothers & Sisters

This is a pic of my brothers and sisters taken at Alisias wedding reception in Tetonia. It was 15 below that night. They were taking pictures of the bride outside the I.F. temple and she started looking like a popcicle. Dad

i am a cowboy

A birthday gift from sisters dear----For a cowboy who rides nomore.

I took them back and got the cash---And bought some more my style.

They were so fine this lace up kind---Of suede and great support

They would no doubt feel right at home --Even at a church court

With coat and tie or causual wear ---I really do look fine.

At funerals or reunions or just to go out and dine.

Now if you bury me in these boots--Please clean and brush them one last time.

But---if you need these boots --just pull them off-- before you close the lid.

I rarely wear my boots to bed---so why should I when I'm dead ?