If you are from Nephi, Utah or ever heard of Mormons, you may have heard of the LDS Missionary program.

This program shows a slug of Juab County folks who participated in the missionary farewell ceremony for Lynn L. Wright. It doesn't list the year, but my uneducated guess is that it was around the time of the Korean War(early 1950's). Lynn was the son of Ken and Mae Larsen Wright, and worked as businessman in Nephi, Moab and then St. George, passing away there in 1987. He and wife Janet Westring were the parents of Lee, Julie, Nathan, Sonya and Mareah. At the time of Lynn going on a mission, the LDS Church put together a big swing dig for sending off missionaries. Much of that was curtailed during the Viet Nam War, as some folks erroneously believed that young people were going on missions to circumvent being drafted. Nothing could be further from the truth, but Church Authorities minimized the send off, stopping the printing a program for their departure. I am not sure, but another guess would be that Lynn was an excellent missionary, as he not only had the necessary positive attitude, but a gift of the gap, with an excellent heart to show he really cared.