Melanie: I have been corresponding with my Young Women Presidency Secretary via email since the birth of her baby three weeks ago. I asked her on Monday if she might be related by marriage to Robin Olsen Wirthlin. She responded with a "that would be a definite yes!" We then corresponded about how Robin was doing and how I knew the Olsens. My secretary, Cheri Wirthlin, then told me that Ann was out here to help with the children because Robin is due to have her baby today (in fact she might be having a c-section as well), and that the next time she talked with them, she would mention me.
This is the latest response:
(Connie Moessing is my Laurel Advisor, and is from California, via BYU.)
I just talked to Robin and she is thrilled to hear you're in our ward. She said she would love to see you and said she and her mom will have to drive out sometime to see you. Her mom is here for several months while Robin recovers after her baby, so I'm sure they'll find the time. Anyway, she was very excited to hear that you're out here.
I find more connections out here, of all places, with people who know Robin. Connie Moessing was her roomate back at BYU! Isn't that crazy?! :)
Cheri
Amazing world we live in!
Melanie
Myrna:Isn't life amazing?
Ann isn't quite the Ann you and I remember. She isn't far off, just a bit. She seems to talk a bit more slowly and takes more care in speaking than she once did. She had a brain tumor which required surgery and (I think) chemo. She said it had a large effect on her memory for a time, not her long-term memory but her short-term memory. However, she seems to be well-recovered from that. She is, she said, still not quite better. It was a funeral day and I did not press her. Then she called to talk to me while I was at Am's home and told me that she would be with Robin for a few months. I still did not ask her why she did not consider herself fully recovered.
She said she had lived with some of her kids while she recovered.
She and Ron did get a divorce. I guess Ron left her for another woman. One of the girls he knew at college. However, they didn't end up together. He did want Ann to forgive him and she said she did but she had her health to think about and did not take him back. She said he had really suffered since the accident and that had been a "Refiner's Fire" for him.
Love, Mom
