Missionary Social Group

Once each month our missionary social group gets together for some kind of an event - almost always with a delicious pot luck dinner. These are some of the missionary couples that came into the Family & Church History Mission together with us in September 2009.
     Tonight we had a 'fireside' and dinner at the Brigham Apt. Social Room and our guest speaker was Herbert Klopfer. He shared the story of his escape from Communist East Germany right after the War. He, his mother and younger brother eventually immigrated to Salt Lake and, outside his mission to Switzerland when he was 19 years old, has lived here ever since.
     Brother Klopfer has been on the Church Music Committee for 27 years (1983 thru today) and, with his wife Carolyn, wrote Hymn #298 which is now published in every hymnal published in English and every other language that it has been translated into. He voluntarily plays the piano during lunch in the cafeteria of the Church Office Building almost every day.....and he uses no music, everything from memory. He supervises over 100 other volunteers who audition to play pianos in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and the Convention Center - his wife being one of those selected by the audition committee.