Welfare Square
Our "tourist" activity on this trip to Utah was Welfare Square, considered part of Temple Square although it's a few blocks away. We started at the Visitor's Center (which was not found intuitively - it's to the left of the Bishop's Storehouse entrance) and had a wonderful tour given by a couple of Japanese missionaries. That in itself was an amazing "coincidence" or beautiful opportunity. Wayne had lived in Japan as a child. Our grandsons had spent a week in Japan this month. We learned one of the sisters was great friends with the youngest daughter of some of our good friends in Tampa. The tour started with a short film highlighting principles of the welfare program of the church. We saw the neatly organized shelves of the Bishop's Storehouse, then watched volunteers packaging freshly baked bread, before heading over to the canning building. Today they were processing spaghetti sauce. We loved this quote on the wall in the cannery: The work...
