User:Donnaevelynb

Introduction-
I am Sister Donna Bess serving a mission in Salt Lake City, Utah for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I arrived here December 6, 2012 and my mission continues until June, 2014. The Family and Church History Headquarters Mission is the name of my mission. I've been called to serve in The Family History Library in the Hosting Zone. The Mission President, President Peterson and Sister Peterson served in the Nauvoo Temple as the Temple President and Temple Matron, respectively. Sabbath is spent in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building where my Ensign Third Ward meets in the JSMB Chapel on the Mezzineen Floor at three o' clock. Relief Society is at 1:00 P.M. followed by Gospel Principal's Class. Before this all starts I attend the Tabernacle Choir Broadcast in the Tabernacle and usually get there by 9:00 A.M. After this I go and study in the JSMB until the Ward Choir practice at noon. The Ensign Third Ward Bishop is Herbert Klopfer. His spouse's name is Sister Carolyn Klopfer. Bishop Klopfer has an amazing story of how his mother planned their, including his brother, excape from war torn Germany. His father was not so fortunate, but he too had miraculous events in his life especially with the church even though he had been mandated to serve for the enemy. He did die of starvation unknown to the family until a comrad had returned with the information.

Childhood and Education
I started school in a one room schoolhouse and it was a delightsome thing for me. We moved to a different farm which caused my brother and I to attend Lincoln Elementary School in Ottawa, Illinois. After attending there for five years we were mandated to go to George P. Hills School in Naplate, Illinois. Ottawa has two hight schools, Marquette ( a Catholic one) and Ottawa Twp. I attended both. After high school I  attended Illinois State University, Bloomington, Illinois on a Teacher's Schlorship.

Jobs
It's fun thinking of all the work I've done and how wonderful all the experiences were for my development. Because of living on a farm it was a given to gather the eggs, feed the chickens, water the chickens, milk a cow, slop the pigs, sometimes feed the two-week old calves. Mowing the yard and dusting and vacuuming and helping in the garden and orchard. The first work which I got fifty-cents a day was baby sitting a two year old. It really was a matter of following him and making sure he was safe. The next paid job was detasseling corn. After that I sold Christmas cards door to door and worked in a beauty parlor after school and during summers. Waitress work while in college. Assortment of jobs interspersed with marriage and children