Beloved!!

The second summer after we were married, we moved to Campus Plaza, 2 bedroom apartments that usually housed 4 girls at a time.  We shoved the single beds together and created one that was 3 single beds wide - it was pretty hilarious when we tried to concoct sheets and a bedspread for it!!

Harry was teaching at the Language Training Mission - the forerunner to the MTC - and the group of elders he was teaching adopted a kitten that had been abandoned.  He was named "Amado" or "beloved" in Spanish.  Cats were not allowed at the LTM - but these elders were pretty resourceful and successfully kept him the whole time they were there.

However, Amado needed a home after they left - and we got elected!!  Campus Plaza didn't allow cats either - but somehow we managed to keep him there undetected for the remainder of our stay.

He got seriously ill however, and the vet wasn't very encouraging.  He suggested we force feed him with baby food - which we did - and he survived!!

Our friend Ronnie Horton kept him for the remainder of the summer when we went to California, and when we moved to Salt Lake City, Amado became a member of the family.  You have probably seen the famous photo of Harry with a paper bag on his head playing on the floor with a cat.  That cat was Amado.

He was with us through several moves.  Once he disappeared and we ran an ad and he got returned!  But then he disappeared again, and we never found him.  We were sad.  He had a bad habit of getting into parked cars with rolled down windows - we suspect that was what happened.

We hoped he had a long happy life after he left us!!  He was, after all, Amado!!