Bonnie, I spend most of the day every day going through records of the LDS past. Sometimes I find a story ready-made in an old magazine or Church News, and simply rewrite it in a style that suits me or the purpose I have in bringing it to your attention, usually throwing in a few wrap-up details in the way of dates or full names or whatever is needed to make it satisfactory. Other times I can find the hint of a story in a missionary’s letter, or in an obituary or other newspaper report, or some other document. If I can just get the idea that so-and-so had an unusual life, I can research that life just the same way you might research your grandmother’s life, and turn it into a story. Really, I think it is a gift the Lord has given me to be able to read a nugget of history, realize what that nugget says about someone’s life and character, and then be able to write it in a way that you recognize the same good traits.