Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Category: Mission Stories

  • Grimethorpe

    Grimethorpe

    When I was 19 years old, just after completing my first year at a large university in the American West, I left school to spend two years as a Mormon missionary in the Northeast of England. When I arrived in Britain, I knew little to nothing about the present social or economic conditions of the…

  • The Things I Do Not Remember: September 11, 2001

    Ten years ago, I was living in the LDS Missionary Training Centre (MTC) in Chorley, England, near Preston. I arrived there in early September at the beginning of what was to be a two year proselytizing mission for the Church. While I was at the MTC, I was assigned to live and study with a ‘companion’, the…

  • 10 Years Later: Quotations for a Friend

    10 Years Later: Quotations for a Friend

    When I was a freshman in college, my best friend was Mark Eliason. He and I went almost everywhere together, and so nearly imitated one another’s mannerisms, speech patterns, and stock phrases that we’d regularly have other people ask us if we were brothers. We usually lied and said yes. After our freshman year, each…