I remember the first time that I was aware of Ben at Kerr plastic co.  I was at my table (it was more like a big wagon) i was so far behind on doing my job.  The table was full the bottles were running over n falling on the floor.  Ben was the machine operator and was responsible for me n the line.  I was hurrying with all my might trying at least not to let any bottles fall on the floor.  I was only 15 which the friend that got me a job there said oh they missed up on her card.  I'll fix that n changed my age to 18.
It was a loud fractory.  I was singing very loud (hyms).  He would run back n forth from working on on the machine n the bottles then back to my table.  He said I see you like to sing.  By the end of summer  I  thought it was really neat thing to have a man like me.  The next summer i was back there and that guy was still there. He would still help me with my bottles.  He would give me hints of how to stay on top n not get behind.  He was a really sweet, nice, kind guy.  I  liked him.  Nexed summer I was aloud to date.  I  did have other boy friends and we got to do things like going to the school dances n etc.  We had a friend that we both knew to ask me if I would go to a  party with him.  I had to ask my daddy if i could go out with him.  Later i told him I couldn't go out with him unless he went to church with me.Then we started dating n getting  serious. One night while I  worked the 2nd shift, my sister Garnet dragged him to church where he asked Jesus into his heart.  He asked me to marry him on graduation night. I was concerned about how serious he was with the Lord.  I told him I  wanted to be a missionary.  He said can't we be missionaries in our own back yard.  After a few weeks  I said  yes.  It wasn't until last night that I realized all through the 54+ yrs, we were missionaries. There was hardley a time that we didn't have many somebodies living with us n even families living wih us.  He fulfilled his promise to me of being missionaries in our own backyard.