On Friday, November 20th President Nelson gave a short talk and suggested that a cure for some of our ailments at this time, was to seek to develop an attitude of gratitude. He suggested that for the next 7 days we post on our social media things we are grateful for and then he offered a prayer on our behalf. We have taken the challenge and have been daily posting things we are grateful for - our parents, each other, our children, our grandchildren, our country and we plan on posting the gospel and the Savior Jesus Christ as our final two. It has been fun to read everyones “gratitude posts” and I think it has lifted spirits. We are blessed to have a Prophet.
We continue to move along in our restricted but happy life this week. We were invited to a zoom Canadian Humanitarian fund raiser program on Friday evening. They are the group that Tom went to Africa with and initially were organized by the Northcott family. We met with Carol again on Thursday and took her the sacrament on Sunday. The province is extending social interaction restrictions for a longer period of time so church continues to be completely zoom meetings. I led a Relief Society zoom discussion group on Sunday. We are also trying to work out the options for our Christmas Musical. Our own Christmas decorating is essentially done as the new tree we ordered turned up on our doorstep yesterday. Tom helped me assemble it and I decorated it. It is taller and narrower than our old tree. Voila, the tree but a tired me.
We had cleaned the house yesterday too and I was exhausted by the end of the day. We try to walk to the Temple at least once a week on our daily walks as we are monitoring the building of the fence around the perimeter of the property. Tom worked hard to gain approval for the fence before we were released and we are thrilled to see it happening. We continue to celebrate our family birthdays online and it was Keaton’s birthday this week. He got the family wishes going by wishing himself a “Happy Birthday”. He is a character. We cleaned up the leaves in our front lawn after a bad windstorm. That was our third time and hopefully the last as the leaves are pretty well all down now. Sarah had her bridal shower this week and it had to be a drive by one. Cindy took my card for her. We visit with our families and others. Both my ministering sisters called me this week and we keep in touch with our people to whom we are assigned to minister. The Lord has a plan to keep us covered no matter what the situation and our lives are a new kind of busy,
Our neighbour Jean returned from Austria a couple of weeks ago after getting her daughter Charmaine settled at music school in Salzburg. Jean has just finished isolation and Charmaine has now also returned home as the university has been shutdown. Everyone’s lives are upside down these days.
We try to stay healthy and are eating less cholesterol and both are losing weight. We are awaiting two specialist appointments for Tom. My knee is much, much better but not fully recovered. The body breaks down as we get older.
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