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April 1 - July 6, 2018
Father and Mother assured us that they would assist us in achieving as much education as we could obtain.
"We realized then that Mother and Daddy had given us the finest gift they could ever give, as they took upon themselves the covenant of celestial marriage that year, thereby sealing us and their posterity to them for time and all eternity. It is the only gift we ever really wanted from our dear parents.
Russell remembers clearly writing down two goals: to be self-employed and to go around the world.12
One night as Dantzel and Russell were walking down Boylston Street in Boston, Dantzel pressed her nose against the windowpane of a furniture store and wistfully asked, "Do you think we'll ever be able to afford a lamp?" They had been married nine years by then, and Russell thought this was not an unreasonable request. They had become accustomed to looking at the things others had without really feeling much envy because they simply knew they could not afford them. That was the only time Russell ever heard Dantzel express a desire for any material possessions she did not have. "It seems amazing
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"Mindy, don't worry about that. It's just a thing, and that's not important. You're the one who's important."34
Dantzel confessed to an occasion when she nearly lost her temper. She had inherited a family heirloom, a beautiful cut-glass bowl that had been given to her mother as a wedding gift, which she had placed on a table in
the living room. As the grandchildren were playing upstairs on this occasion, a ball came rolling down, bouncing onto the table and smashing the bowl into countless shards of glass. After taking a deep breath, she said, "Well, it's my own fault. I should have known better than to put that beautiful cut-glass bowl on that table with little children around."36
