Wander With Wayne

This week we had the opportunity to spend a great deal of time with my family. After work, on Tuesday, we met Kaneesha for dinner (she had flown in from Virginia). We then drove to Blackfoot, Idaho. It was so nice to see Kaneesha again.  On Wednesday morning we drove to the Rexburg Temple for my niece, Kylee's wedding to Dax Tomlinson. The wedding was well attended and the ceremony was special. It was especially nice to see Kayla and Brent enter the sealing room. Kayla was married outside of the temple to her first husband (Josh Padilla) and has had a long difficult return into a position where she could be married in the temple to Brent. This was the first temple wedding in the family that Kayla was able to attend. She said it was very special for her to be there. We enjoyed a wedding luncheon where I visited with my brother-in-law Jason Arnold most of the time. Jason and I have so much in common, that I really enjoy visiting with him. At the reception I enjoyed seein...

In May of this year, I started working at the Lindon Cannery. It was such a blessing to end the commute to Salt Lake. Also, because of production, we worked four ten hour days. This left my Fridays free to do the things I, and my family, needed. I was typically gone from home about the same amount of time each day that I had been gone when I traveled to Salt Lake (but I didn't have to go to work on Fridays). On September 30th it was publicly announced that the Lindon Cannery would be merging with the Murray Cannery.  On November 14th we had our last day of production at the Lindon Cannery. Besides being the final day of canning in Lindon, it was also the last day any of the canneries in the church canning system were expected to be canning in glass jars. All of the glass jars from every cannery were sent to Lindon to be filled with spaghetti sauce. Noell brought Tanner in to participate on the last day of production. I took him around and showed him how the cannery wor...