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REMEMBERING
REVELEE
Get a notebook, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for
eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements
and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.
P R E S I D E N T S P E N C E R W. K I M B A L L
NEW YORK
APRIL 2014
Our family
Susan Jane Hibdon Joyce
Dustin Tyler Joyce
Fiona Claire Joyce
Colin Everett Joyce
ISSUE 14
36 PAGES
TA B L E
of C O N T E N T S
N EW YO RK A P R I L 2 0 1 4
REMEMBERING
REVELEE
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14 Remembering Revelee
At a springtime memorial service in Oregon,
the Hibdons remembered their mother,
grandmother, aunt, and matriarch in the way
only the Hibdons could.
+ Mama Lee kills the neighbors hogs
F RO M O U R A RCH I V ES
WE BELIEVE IN CHRIST
31 JanuaryMarch 2014
A new quarterly roundup of the
tidbits of our lives we share on
social media.
THE JOURNAL
SUSAN
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DUSTIN
FIONA
Finding our
first home
The toddler
that travels
We found apartment
931 by chance. We made
itthat wonderful little
apartmentour home
by choice.
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COLIN
Colin goes
hoteling for
the first time
A first train ride takes
Colin to his first night
away from home.
+ Colins baby blessing
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M I LESTO N ES
JANUARYMARCH 2014
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2 Colin is born
4 Colin comes home
F E B RUA RY
2 Colins baby blessing (see
page 13)
6 After 22 years on the air, Jay
Leno hosts The Tonight Show for
the last time. Like, for reals this
time
723 Sochi, Russia, hosts the
XXII Olympic Winter Games
1718 Family to New Haven,
ConnecticutColins first
overnight trip (see page 12)
28 Susan and Dustins 6th
anniversary (technically on 29
February, but that date doesnt
occur this year)
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17 A minor, 4.4-magnitude
earthquake shakes Los Angeles
just before sunrise, notable
mostly for, as the Los Angeles
Times put it, ending the citys
earthquake drought. It was also
caught on camera during KTLAs
morning newscast, which showed
the anchors diving under the
desk before popping back up to
continue the program after the
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Dont leave home without it: We can get by without a cell phone, house
keys, or even a wallet. But thesethese are our constant companion.
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CO LO R KEY
holidays
travel
birthdays
events in our lives
events in the Church
world events
THE JOURNAL
SUSAN
studentso my sister said, Really?! Why
did he do that? Why would he give you
that present? So my brother told this story
about this guy that was pretty awkward
and didnt have a lot of social skills and a
lot of people made fun of him. (You would
think that, by college, people would be over
making fun of each other, but apparently
they were not.) So they were making fun of
this guy. And I remember vividly the tone
in my brothers voice when he said, I just
would never do that. He was friends with
this guy because he just would never treat
somebody that way.
Its really very simple to show love
for people, I think. Its not as complicated
as we sometimes think that it is. And
sometimes with home and visiting teaching
we think it has to be this big thing. It
doesnt have to be a big thing. Were just
showing love for people. Were just letting
people know that we love them. And
the thing about servicelike going out
and helping peopleis, that lets people
know you care about them. There are
some kinds of service where youre sort of
disconnected from the person, like a big
natural disasterthe earthquake in Haiti6 or
the earthquake in Japan7 or the typhoon in
the Philippines8where we cant physically
go there to help, but maybe we can donate
some money to help. And, in some cases,
thats all that we can really do to show that
we care about those people. But in a lot of
cases we do actual things: bringing a meal
to somebody whos sick or stressed out, or
helping clean somebodys house up after
Hurricane Sandy, or washing dishes for
somebodyanything that you can imagine,
any little thing that somebody might need.
Were not just showing that were there
for them to fill their physical or temporal
needswere not just there to take a meal,
were not just there to clean up their house,
were there to show that we actually care
about that person, which doesnt just fill the
temporal need. It fills their emotional and
social and spiritual needs by showing that
we love them and by showing that Heavenly
Father loves them also.
One scripture that has always stood
out to me about love might not seem like
a usual love scripture: its in Doctrine and
Covenants 81:5. And it says: Wherefore,
be faithful; stand in the office which I have
appointed unto you; succor the weak,
lift up the hands which hang down, and
strengthen the feeble knees. When I was
a missionary in Germany I was walking
with my companion one day in some
You just have to be there for somebody. Mourn with those that mourn
and comfort those that stand in need of comfort. All of us can do that.
And all of us are in that position sometimes where we are the ones that
are mourning or we are the ones that need to be comforted.
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DUSTIN
a vast original parquet floor shimmered like
a sea thanks to what looked like an inch or
two of glossy lacquer. This huge, L-shaped
space served as both living and dining area.
Walled off on the left was the small kitchen,
with its original white washboard sinkthe
washboards were, in fact, the only counter
space in the kitchenand cabinetry. Across
the living room were a single bedroom and
bathroom, connected by a short hallway (if
it could be called a hallway) and separated
by a linen closet. The bathroom had a small,
frosted window to the outside while the
bedroom had two windows, one on each of
the outside walls.
We were immediately drawn to the
three windows at the far end of the living
room. When we got there, we were almost
awestruck by what we saw: a sweeping
view of the nations capital, from the
Washington Monument to Washington
National Cathedral. We looked across much
of the city, including Dupont Circle and
Foggy Bottom, down to the Potomac River
and beyond into Arlington. Looking down
the river we could see National Airport,
the Air Force Memorial near the Pentagon,
and the recently completed Wilson Bridge,
which carried the southern part of the
Capital Beltway, Interstate 495, between
Alexandria, Virginia, and Prince Georges
County, Maryland.
Susan and I first thought that there
was no way we could afford so incredible
a space. Then Tyrone told us the rent:
$1,425.00 a month, all utilities included.
Actually, it was entirely within our means
(thanks, rent control!).
Tyrone mentioned that there was
another one-bedroom apartment available
in the building, and he took us down to the
sixth floor to see it. It, too, was a beautiful
space, with a view up 16th Street toward the
three church spires that crown Meridian
Hill at the intersection of 16th Street,
Mount Pleasant Street, and Columbia Road
(a nameless squareunusual in the nations
capital). But we knew that if we were going
to live at Dorchester House, we wanted to
live in apartment 931. We returned to the
leasing office and told Tyrone we would be
in touch.
We had seen some great apartments
and now we had a decision to make.
We decided to take a walk through
the neighborhood. We walked west
down Euclid Street on the north side of
Dorchester House, toward the heart of
Adams Morgan at Columbia Road and 18th
Street. It was a brisk, breezy, sunny day.
Bedroom
148 129
4.47m 3.89m
CLOSET
Bath
53 88
1.6m 2.64m
A/C
LINEN
CLOSET
Living room
216 128
6.55m 3.86m
CLOSET
A/C
CLOSET
REF
Kitchen
Dining room
137 75
4.14m 2.26m
CLOSET
ABOUT
DORCHESTER HOUSE
address
2480 16th Street NW
Washington, D.C.
architect
Francis L. Koenig, 1941
original apartments
70 studios
291 one-bedrooms
33 two-bedrooms
394 total
page 8 (over)
A vintage advertisement for Dorchester
House, published shortly before the building
opened in 1941.
VIA GHOSTS OF DC
GHOSTSOFDC.ORG/2012/10/10/DORCHESTER-HOUSE-AD-1941
But I will never forget the first night I
spent in apartment 931. It was an exciting
time, but it was also an anxious time. Susan
and I felt confident in our decision to marry
each other, but new experiences, no matter
how great, can be nerve-racking. As I went
to sleep on the air mattress we had put in
the bedroom for my use that week, I lay
thinking about everything ahead, with a
mix of excitement and anxiety churning
in my stomach. Just then, a nearly full
moon broke through the clouds and a
column of moonlight shone through the
window right onto where I lay. A calm and
peaceful feeling came over me, and I knew
everything would be alright.
And it was. d
NOTES
1. Susan and I cant remember if these figures are
entirely accurate, but theyre close.
2. For the record, we thought the central air
conditioning was a much-needed improvement.
And when people pay for their own electricity,
theyre likely to use less of ita win for
everyone, including the planet. And the final
ruling on the rent decrease was quite favorable
to tenants, especially those, like us, who chose
to start paying our own electric bill as soon as
possible.
3. It was 1,279 days from the day both Susan and
Dustin lived there, 1 March 2008; since Dustin
moved in on 23 February 2008, he lived in
apartment 931 for 1,286 days.
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Fionas firsts
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Fiona imparts
some of the
wisdom shes
gained on travels
with Mama and
Daddy.
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District of Columbia
15 July 2010
Indiana
21 April 2011
Maryland
17 July 2010
Ohio
21 April 2011
Virginia
9 August 2010
Nevada
8 August 2011
West Virginia
22 September 2010
California
8 August 2011
North Carolina
25 February 2011
Delaware
19 August 2011
South Carolina
15 April 2011
New York
19 August 2011
Georgia
15 April 2011
New Jersey
11 September 2011*
Alabama
15 April 2011
Connecticut
26 October 2011
Mississippi
17 April 2011
Pennsylvania
26 May 2012*
Louisiana
18 April 2011
Utah
23 December 2012*
Tennessee
20 April 2011
Massachusetts
17 February 2013
Kentucky
21 April 2011
Vermont
18 February 2013
Illinois
21 April 2011
New Hampshire
18 Feburary 2013
FIONA
Highlighted portions of text are verbatim quotes from Fiona. We're a little behindokay, a lot behind, like over a year
on our magazine right now, and Fiona didn't necessarily speak this well in April 2014. These lines were recorded 12 May 2015.
VA L E N TI N E S DAY
TO D USTI N
TO F I O N A
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THE JOURNAL
COLIN
Colins baby blessing
COLINTRACKER
TOOTHTRACKER
UPPER
RIGHT
LEFT
So far,
teeth.
But were
sure hell
have some
someday.
LOWER
TRAVELTRACKER
Colin and Dustin with those who participated in his blessing in front of our church building at
185 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn.
CHRISTINA KIM HOMER | 10.13 EST, 2 FEBRUARY 2014
2 STATES
New York
2 January 2014
Connecticut
17 February 2014
FIRSTTRACKER
Goodnight (family singing, scripture
study, and prayer before bed)
3 January 2014
I Am a Child of God; Alma 25:16; at
New York Methodist Hospital, room 5S22B
Visit to Juniors restaurant, Brooklyn
1 February 2014
Train trip
17 February 2014
On a Metro-North train from Grand Central
to New Haven, Connecticut
Time off an island and out of New York
City and New York State
17 February 2014
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TRANSCRIBED BY DUSTIN
RECORDED & EDITED BY SUSAN
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am I?
DD: Apparently neither am I.
This is a story I typed up a few years back when Mother was reminding me of all her childhood
stories. I printed it and several shorter ones for her reminder book when she went into the
skilled nursing center.
The story was confirmed for me by my Fathers sister Hazel about 2002. I think it might help
people understand Mother to know about where she came from.
Mothers father died in 1922 before Mother
turned two years old. Over the next several
years life was pretty hard for the Lee family.
During the first few of those years, Sterling
[Revelees older brother] was married
but still around, living close and helping
out when he could. Mama Lee [Revelees
mother] and her brood stayed in the Lark,
Oklahoma, area through the mid 20s. Pleas
was in his teens and could do the plowing.
About 1924, the family had some
trouble with a neighbors hogs. Oklahoma
was a modified free-range state in those
days. During normal cropping seasons,
animals were required to be penned up. But
during the winter, hogs were turned loose
to forage in the forests and fallow ground.
They were all marked with ear cuts that
were registered like cattle brands. That way
they could be identified when gathered up
in the spring or at hog butchering time in
the late fall.
But some people, like Roy Youngs
dad, may have interpreted the laws a little
loosely. Or maybe the Youngs just had a
weak hog pen. One spring morning the
Lees woke up to find the dogs barking up a
storm and the Youngs hogs in the cornfield.
They had rooted up about a quarter acre of
corn that had been a few inches high. Mama
Lee, Pleas, and the other big kids joined
the dogs in rousting the hogs. Then Mama
went down to have a talk with Mr. Young.
Mr. Young told her that he would see they
did not escape again.
A day or two after the corn was
replanted, it happened againanother
patch was rooted up. Mama Lee went back
to the Youngs and explained the obvious,
that she had nothing to feed her children
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F RO M O U R A RCH I V ES
sunday,
26 november 2000
A journal entry
from the month
I received my
mission call
reveals the
mixed emotions
of that day
and the Spirits
confirmation that
I was going where
the Lord wanted
me to go.
OPPOSITE PAGE
Dustins mission call.
(Yes, we have printed
this once before in our
magazine, in the January
2013 issue, but it was
reduced in size. This is
Dustins mission call at its
actual size.)
RIGHT
The original journal
entry.
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above
Dustins letter to the First Presidency,
accepting his call to serve in the
Utah Salt Lake City South Mission.
opposite page
Dustin in front of the Provo
Missionary Training Center shortly
before he started his mission on
Wednesday, 17 January 2001.
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NOTES
1. I was working at my very first job, as an administrative
assistant at Charlotte Pipe and Foundrys headquarters
on Randolph Road in Charlotte, Specifically, my office was
located in the building at 2039 Randolph Road, at the north
corner of Randolph Road and North Chase Street.
2. I had visited Linville Gorge a few years earlier on a ward
Scout camping trip and had fallen in love with the unique
beauty of Linville Falls and the rugged gorge beyond.
3. As I somewhat incorrectly pointed out in the original
journal entry, at the time I served in the Utah Salt Lake
City South Mission it covered the south half of the Salt
Lake Valley, from around 4500 South (give or takethe
boundary was not a straight line) to Point of the Mountain
and from the Wasatch Mountains on the east to the
Oquirrh Mountains on the west. It also covered Summit
County to the east, including the towns of Park City, Kamas,
and Coalville. But (see next footnote).
4. I never served in Summit County. There were at most four
companionships serving there at a time and, of those, two
were sister missionaries working in part at the Family Tree
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WE BELIEVE IN CHRIST
BY DUSTIN
Howard W.
Hunter served
as 14th president
of The Church
of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day
Saints. His
tenure, 5 June
19943 March
1995, is currently
the shortest in
Church history.
Howard was liked by adults for his good manners. He would tip
his hat to people on the street and give up his seat on the streetcar if
anyone was standing.
Howard once had polio, which he got from his friend Buster
Grimm. Buster was crippled for life because of the disease, while the
only lasting effect of the disease on Howard was a lifelong stiff back:
he was never able to bend forward and touch the floor.
For the most part Howard did well in school. However, he
claims he did have 2 handicaps: I was not good in sports and I had a
problem telling colorsnot all colors, but shades of red, green, and
brown.
He devised an ingenious way to solve his color-blindness
problem. He would put his crayons on the top of his desk, and when
the art teacher asked the students to pick up a crayon of a certain
color, he would run his finger over the crayons on his desk and
Beatrice Beach, who sat behind him, would tap him on the shoulder
when he came to the right one. He was embarrassed to admit to the
teacher that he couldnt distinguish the colors.
He enjoyed reading, writing, and most other academic
subjects, but he didnt always work hard to master them. He had
many other interests as well, such as a succession of afterschool and
summer jobs.
Adults seemed to sense that Howard was conscientious and
dependable. As a young boy he helped around the neighborhood,
mowing, doing yard work, bringing milk from the dairy to the
widows, picking fruit, or any other work. Sometimes he was paid for
such work; other times he did it just because he liked helping others.
These experiences and other that Howard W. Hunter had in his
childhood as a young boy helped prepare him to become the 14th
president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a
true and righteous prophet of the Lord.
We as junior
companions
expect our senior
companions
generally to be
a leader and an
example. We
expect them to
teach us as guided
by the Holy Ghost
to be good junior
companions and
good Aaronic
Priesthood
holders, and
eventually to
be good senior
companions and
Melchizedek
Priesthood
holders.
above
The Charlotte North
Carolina South Stake
center at 5815 Carmel
Road in Charlotte, where
we attended church
when I was growing up
(and where these talks
were given).
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The Church
in our day
STATISTICAL REPORT
APRIL 2014
As of 31 December 2013
Church units
Stakes 3,050
Missions 405
Districts 571
Wards and branches
29,253
Church membership
Total membership
New children of record
Converts baptized
Missionaries
Full-time missionaries
Church-service missionaries
15,082,028
115,486
282,945
83,035
24,032
TEMPLES UPDATE
As of 30 April 2014
Operating 142
Under construction
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Announced 14
Dedicated
Gilbert Arizona
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2 March 2014
N O T I F I C AT I O N S
JANUARYMARCH 2014
A new quarterly roundup of the tidbits of our lives we share on social media.
FA C E B O O K
DUSTIN 2 January 2014, 7.50
Taking a taxi in New York for the first time.
with Susan Hibdon at Eastern Parkway
DUSTIN 2 January 2014, 9.42 | Brooklyn
It looks like todays the day!
with Susan Hibdon
DUSTIN 8 January 2014, 23.01
The things my phone comes up with.
Just now I was sending a text message
to a friend, Ive been in the other room
working on a project. Except instead of
project it inserted prophecy.
No, I have not been in the other room
working on a prophecy.
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TWITTER
DUSTIN 7 March 2014, 23.28 | New York
In a major argument with Susan right now
over whether weve seen Dan in Real Life
before. (We have.)
DUSTIN 16 March 2014, 21.03
Happy (early) St. Patricks Day! Shamrock
sugar cookies, anyone?
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T H E G A L L E RY
Admiration
3 March 2014, 10.32 est
Colin looks up admiringly at his favorite
person in the world, his big sister.
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