Elder and Sister Tuck
Sister Tuck served as the mission secretary and Elder Tuck was over finances in the Mission office where they worked 5 days a week, sometimes over 8 hours a day. They had previously served two missions in Cambodia/Vietnam and The Baltics/Lithuania where they learned parts of the languages serving in the same capacities.
They were an amazing force together!! The cleaners had "dumped" all the spices, vacuum and other important apartment items before we arrived in our Hoover apartment. The Masons had previously, carefully cleaned and put the cupboard contents together with Sister Missionary help. Tucks shopped and supplied everything we needed in the kitchen, so we only had to shop for food. It was an amazing effort they accomplished to make our transition easier.
Tucks befriended us and bought us lunch our first day in the mission after the Senior Mission meeting with President and Sister Sainsbury. They led us to our apartment, showed us where to find, Costco, Sam's Club and the biggest Mall (Galleria) in Alabama, just two blocks from our apartment!!
They are always kind in answering all our questions and helping orient us to the work. We went shopping with them to a Whole Foods type Market and had them over for dinner at our apartment two times and once to Olive Garden. They went to the The Indian Mounds and dinner on the River during the Senior outing with all of us.
Sister Tuck sang with Mormon Tabernacle Choir for ten years and had a music degree, played the organ and piano well. While her and Elder Tuck were raising their children, she started volunteering with the County Extension Agency and found nature very interesting. Sister Tuck began taking a few online classes on plants and wildlife to enrich her knowledge and help others at the Extension office that led to an internship.
One day she noticed another student reading the Book of Mormon just before their test when Sister Tuck thought she was cramming the test material. The fellow student said, "I found that if I read the Book of Mormon, something happens in my mind and I do so much better on the tests. Sister Tuck studied 22 hours for her first test and received a "D". The next test she studied 22 hours and read the Book of Mormon just prior to the test and she received an "A". This was so remarkable, as a non-traditional student, she always read the Book of Mormon before her tests and did well!!! (BYU did a study on learning with the Book of Mormon and found it helps children learn to read faster because it is a pure language and has only been translated once! It also helps children with learning challenges)
Before long she had enough credits to get another Bachelor's degree in "Ornamental Landscaping!!" Sister Tuck always had a story for us on the trees, wildlife, plants indigenous to this area or about birds. Elder and Sister Tuck called themselves, "Birders" and they loved going to parks and watching the beauties of the local birds when they had spare time.
Elder Tuck was trained in the military to program computers and worked on the code for Microsoft, Dell and Ross Perot's campaign. He could help most people with anything computers!! He worked hard and was proud of his wife, Julia and loved relating how they met and married!!(Young Sister Tuck and another MOTAB singer(African American) were sitting in uniform on a bench when Young Elder Tuck walked up and said, "I didn't know you were twins!!)
All the missionaries loved the Tucks because Elder Tuck would make sure their debit cards had money on them and Sister Tuck always gave them treats when they came to the office and told them she loved them!! She was an angel persona and did give love to all. We will miss them.
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