Love you grandma I'll miss our birthdays together...

Edna and I became extremely good friends and when she wasn’t working, she would come up and ask me so many questions about the Gospel.  Finally, I asked her if we could send our young missionaries to talk to them.  She said yes.  Elder Jay Ward and Elder Forsberg were their Elders.  One day She shared with me from her writings what she had written in 1966.  
“Oh! Lord help me. I am a useless thing.  Please help e be what you would have me be instead of a puppet of life’s demands.  I ache for understanding and the will to do as you would have me do.  I want fulfillment but afraid to pay the price.  My soul years for what–--------------- I do not understand.  Please do ----------------- (This note is unfished...  Everything about her points out to one significant thing. She was literally searching - yearning for the Gospel
As our friendship grew, I found myself constantly thinking, “How wonderful to see you AGAIN!”   “I’ve found you again...”   “It’s so great to be together again.”

Not long after all of this, a poem came out in the Ensign –  now call that magazine the Liahona

:  
TO A FRIEND by Virginia Kammeyer  
Do you ever wonder, my dear friend, where it began, our similar mind and thought?
Were we as one in time without an end, unborn intelligence, and unbegot?

And have I walked beside you yet before, eternally progressing down the light?                 Together did we stand on Heaven’s shore and fling our questions-at the listening night?

And when the summons came for one to go, and one a very little time to wait,
I think we must have clung together so... and vowed our friendship at the mortal gate.’’

I heard you cry as I began the fall,             “Oh, promise to recall! Recall! Recall!

***********************

And my dear friend, I did not forget!  Our memories stood firm and we have been friends to the very end but wait, as you told me the last time we visited in St. George, we won’t see each other again in this life,...
Love all of you.  Kathie

Ted (son), Grandma, Rachelle (granddaughter) & Arius (great-grandson).

Grandma & Granddaughter Rachelle Johnson.

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Edna Anna Johnson

1 July, 1926 – 4 April, 2025

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