We have continued to walk each day, work in our yard and our house and pick away at the organisation of Grandpa Tanner’s things. The more I am here at home the more redecorating ideas I seem to come up with. Poor Tom. Other than rehanging a few things, nothing major has happened yet. I would like to paint some furniture though while being isolated. We just have to determine how to get the paint.
We prepared for Easter this week by watching several YouTube broadcasts. We normally watch these particular broadcasts for our “Come Follow Me” supplement material. They are “Don’t Miss This”, “Teaching with Power” and “Book of Mormon Central”. Tom loves supplementing the lessons and so he also reads Terry Smith’s material that he puts online each week. We also watched the “Don’t Miss This” daily preparing for Easter thoughts and tradition suggestions.. On Good Friday we had our worldwide fast for the alleviation of the effects of the covid 19 virus. It was a very special way to commemorate Good Friday and remember the Savior’s sacrifice for us. It seemed such a small sacrifice on our part. I followed one of the traditions mentioned by the “Don’t Miss This” hosts and boiled eggs with onion peels to dye them red. It worked beautifully. We had our own sacrament meeting on Easter Sunday alone and then connected with each of our children and their families and gave a little message or shared our testimonies of the Savior. We love being with them each Sunday. We also did a ward “Zoom” meeting with Bishop Rolfson even though he is down in Utah isolated with his wife’s sister’s family. It turned out to be very nice and it was good to see people even if just on screen. We used our good China and had an Easter feast for two. Lovely week and lovely Easter Day day.
We had to make a quick trip to the bank for Tom to pick up some bank drafts for his mother’s money concerns as he shuts down her account. She has been gone nearly 20 years and he has still been dealing with her investments but has now sold them and a small amount goes to each of her children. We went to see two different cemeteries on two different days. Just interested in seeing what they are like and it provided a couple of outings in the car. We also celebrate each family member’s birthdays these days with e-cards and online greetings from everyone and it was Bryson, our grandson’s, 16th birthday yesterday so a big milestone for him.
We received an Easter Greeting email from our Temple President in London, President Irwin. He tries to keep in touch with us in our separate locations as we all await our return to serve. We also had a call from the Temple Department in Salt Lake verifying our information and our desires to return to our mission. Everyone is in touch with us, including the missionaries from our mission and we appreciate it.
We are well and our family is well and we feel very blessed.
Easter 2020
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