1872 I was appointed teacher in the Relief Society of that ward, in 1875 I was appointed second counselor to President Mary Douglas of the Relief Society. The next year I was appointed as secretary to the new division of the Relief Society organized in the south division of the west Weber Wardnow called the Taylor Ward. I became president of the Primary Association and a teacher in the theological class in the Sunday School after it was organized in January 1884. I was later released as president and appointed secretary of the Primary Association which office I held until we moved to Mound Fort in the fall of 1887. In Mound Fort I was appointed teacher in the Relief Society and Sunday School class Teacher. Early in 1888 I was appointed secretary of the monthly meetings of the officers and quarterly conferences of the Primary Associations of Weber Stake in 1892. In 1899 I was appointed aide to the reorganized stake board of the primary association and served in that capacity until the stake was divided. I also acted as assistant secretary of the Relief Society of Mound Fort and was appointed secretary of the same in 1905. I served in that capacity until the ward and Relief Society were disorganized November 6, 1908 and reorganized as the Relief Society of the Seventy Ward of the Ogden Stake. At this time I was called to the office of teacher in the Relief Society but was released October 15, 1909 on account of ill health. I was released as teacher in the Sunday School for the same reason. In Italy our father had two places of residence. One, the summer residence, was upon the mountain side where he kept a dairy at La-Orchiameaning the ark because of its picturesque landscape. He owned some meadow land nearby where (from its summit) could be seen the whole slope of the mountain side dotted and checkered with villages, fields, meadows, groves of walnut and chestnut trees, flowering and fruit trees of various kinds and shade trees. All of these combined to make a scenery most beautiful to beholdclear down to the village of Prassuit, our birth place and winter residence. Ofttimes as I stood on that eminence gazing down the slope on that beautiful panorama, I wished I were an artist that I might place on canvas its charming and variegated beauty. The winter residence was situated toward the foot of the slope near the town of La Tour and not far from the river Angrogna where Father owned an oil press. In the winter, he pressed the oil of walnuts, hazelnuts, and hempseed and supplied the whole community with their year's supply of lamp oil and oil for culinary purposes. Our father was born November 20, 1804 at Prassuit, Angrogna, Piedmont Italy, Our mother was born August 15, 1805 at Angrogna. My twin sister and I were born September 25, 1839 at Prassuit. Father had two brothers and four sisters: Mary, Catherine, Bartholomew, Madeleine, Jenette and Stephen. Their father was John D., son of John D. and Marguerite Blanchot. Their mother was Catherine Costabel, daughter of James. Father's great-grandfather was mayor of Angrogna for ten yearstwo successive terms and was followed by Father's grandfather for the next five years. His father was a prominent landowner of noted respectability and honesty Having this history, he was popular as being a descendant