Andy Favero Jones

I remember being at Uncle Mark and Aunt Sheila's house one day and Uncle Mark motioned for us to come here and said he wanted to show us something. He led us to a closet in the hallway and he opened the door and pointed up to a small door in the ceiling. He said, "What do you think that is?". We just looked at him. With a smile on his face and his eyebrows raised, he went on to teach us about the "Ten O'clock Giant" who lived up there. Every night at ten o'clock the giant would come down and if there were any children still up, he would eat them. Maria and Nicole verified the story shaking their heads up and down. The ten o'clock giant still lives today.

I remember each Sunday going over to Grandma and Grandpa's house for dinner. The adults were upstairs visiting and the kids were downstairs doing kid stuff, but Uncle Mark was always in grandpa's chair sitting on the edge with his elbows on his knees intently watching the game.

When I was really little, I remember a story I heard that I thought was really amazing. Uncle Mark had gone to one of the hot spring resorts and while swimming in the pool, lost one of his contacts. Days later, after draining the pool, the resort called him up and said they had found his contact near the drain. I always thought Uncle Mark was really special because something that lucky happened to him.

Later in my life, I was at a Stake Conference general session. Uncle Mark, then the Stake President made a comment that I have not forgotten. He was teaching about the importance of attending your meetings, all of your meetings, that some day in one of those meetings you may hear something that will be pertinent to your eternal salvation and if you weren't there to hear it, you will have missed out and will not have that opportunity again. I have taken that to heart.

Uncle Mark was a fun loving guy who always loved to tease us. I missed out when you all moved to St. George. I wish I could have associated with him and felt his influence more in my life.
I am so sorry that he is gone. I am sorry that you don't have him to enjoy being with. I hope the time will seem to go by quickly until we are all reunited again.

Andy Favero Jones