User:Rgoms



My name is Richard Herbert Goms Jr. I am sixty-seven years old. I am a Family History Consultant in the Millcreek Stake, Utah 9th Ward. I was just released as the Sunday School President, a calling I held simultaneously with the other for over three years. Awhile after my release I began to feel so useless and undervalued that I applied for this calling as a Church Service Missionary.

Born in Gary, Indiana, I grew up in Washington State for the most part and graduated from Central Washington State in 1972. I was transferred from Tri-Cities, Washington to Provo, Utah in 1976 to manage a retail store. One of my employees turned my name into the Stake missionaries, and I was baptized in August at the age of twenty-seven, so I have been an active convert for over almost forty years. Marrying my first wife shortly after, a year later I took her and our infant son to the Provo Temple.

As a graduate student, I attended BYU for almost a year, learning computer science and data processing, traveling back and forth across the country, taking contracts wherever I could find them, including several Fortune 500 companies, for the next twenty-three years. I also have experience as a project team lead.

I have five children by that marriage and one by the next after she joined the Church and we were sealed in the Washington D.C. Temple. My present wife, Ann, and I were married for time-only in the Los Angeles Temple and were sealed four years later in the Salt Lake Temple. When I married her I took in four of her five teenage girls. Between us we have eleven children and twenty-nine grandchildren. At the present time we are empty-nesters. After spending several years as a veil worker in the Washington DC and Salt Lake Temples, Ann and I worked as temple ordinance workers for several more years in the Salt Lake Temple.

After Y2K and especially after 911 at the age of fifty-two I was unable to find work as a programmer. We moved from Southern California in with in-laws in Utah to cut expenses.

Callings (chronological): Sunday School Teacher, Ward Examiner, Elders Quorum Secretary, Genealogy Class Instructor, Elders Quorum Temple and Genealogy Committee, Ward Family History Consultant, 2nd Counselor in Sunday School Presidency, Branch Clerk, Temple Preparedness Class Teacher, Stake Family History Librarian, Satellite Consultant, Ward Clerk, Stake Missionary, Ward Sunday School President, Nursery Helper, Primary Teacher (younger), Ward Singles Coordinator, Ward Employment Specialist, Denver Temple Worker (cafeteria),

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