Elder Steven E. Snow

One of the really enjoyable things about working in the Area Office is that on Monday morning each week there is a devotional for all the Church employees, leaders, and missionaries.  These have been very uplifting and inspiring.  Today, however, was even better.  Elder Steven E. Snow, the Church Historian and Recorder, along with his wife, Phyllis, and his assistant, Richard Turley, were here to conduct a Church history tour of Central America.  Each of them spoke at this morning's devotional, and their talks were great.  They took the Lord's command in D&C 21:1 that there shall be record kept among us and applied it to us inividually as well as to the Church.  They taught us that we each need to record our life, faith, and work in the Church and share our story with our family to build their faith.  Elder Snow told us about all the wonderful things that are going on in the Church History Department, from the new Church History building and its new exhibit, to the Joseph Smith papers project, capturing international history of the Church, making our history available to everyone on-line, and to a new four volume History of the Church that is being written by Richard Turley and his team for publication at the end of 2019.

After the devotional, I got the chance to chat with Elder Snow for a minute.  He remembered me from years  ago when Paul Graf and I rented office space in the Snow Nuffer building in St George that he and his law partner, David Nuffer, had built across from the old court house.  It was nice to get to talk with him.  He and his wife are great people.