I’m of an age where I’m an Osmond fan. I was a big fan. And my friend who’s also in the ward, got baptized a few years before me. She and I had been to an Osmond concert in Manchester. And this was in 1973, I think…1974…one of those two years anyway, we didn’t get tickets to go to the concert. But we were on half term holiday. It was this time of the year. And we decided that we just wanted to go and see them going into the venue and coming out. So, we went to Manchester and to cut a long story short, we missed our bus back. So, we had to walk to the train station which was about five miles away. I know we waited there. We waited for a few hours and her mother…my parents weren’t on the phone at that time.
We found her mother and she went to the station at Derby and paid the ticket and so we could get on a train to come home to Derby so we had to wait several hours and we met a lot of other people who were also fans obviously, on the train coming home and one of them was also an Osmond fan and she lived not too far away from us about 70 miles in Loughborough. And we got talking to her about the church and she invited us a year later… she invited us to her home to celebrate her birthday. And we met some members of Derby Ward, some young adults. So that was really my first introduction to any members of the church. So yeah, so it’s really awesome. They were my first missionaries. Yeah, a lot of people, a lot of people in England were baptized because of Osmonds.