Here we are into the month of December. We had anticipated that this would be a Christmas spent in the mission field at the London Temple but we are home, with no idea as to when or if we will be able to return to England but we are still hopeful. Vaccines for covid will start being given in England this month but Canada is still several months out. Trevor says there should be caution used as the vaccines are being rushed and we are still uncertain of the long term affects. Perhaps it is best that we are not the first country to receive them. Seniors will be at the head of the list when they do become available.
We are moving forward with plans for our Willoughby Ward Christmas musical. The Abbotsford Stake broadcast their program last Saturday and, though only 19 minutes long, it was lovely. The Bishopric have called Richard and Erika Vernon to help us film and put our program together. We will be filming on Saturday, December 12th and then broadcasting on December 19. We have excellent people performing so hopefully things will go well. We will have people enter into the Chapel only with their performing group, film them and then have them leave before the next group come into the building. We will maintain covid protocol.
We met with Carol again on Thursday for our gospel discussion and took her the sacrament on Sunday. We received permission from the Bishop to teach her the Temple Prep lessons and we are looking forward to doing that. She is very excited to learn as much as she can. We zoomed with the missionaries on Thursday, with Mike Swan interviewing us about being a Temple President and Matron. We just answered Mike’s questions and hoped that the missionaries enjoyed it. Toese gave a zoom fireside on Sunday about Samoa. It was well done and we love her. I have worked on family pictures again for our Family Search site. We returned to Port Coquitlam Costco to pick up our Christmas cards and we have completed and mailed most of them. We also sent money off for our children’s Christmas. We concluded our #GiveThanks week that President Nelson suggested. We really enjoyed considering what things we were grateful for and posting daily, along with reading everyone else’s positive posts. I think it gave everyone a needed lift. So our week has gone with more leaf raking and work being done around our home. We are grateful for each other, for our home and for things to keep us busy. We try to help others as much as we can and often, these days, that is only with our prayers. Our prayer list is very long.
We are grateful for our children and their regular contact with us. Our American children celebrated Thanksgiving this past week. Trevor’s family stayed at home in Nashville and Rissa’s family celebrated in Montana, after they realized they would have to isolate for two weeks when they got back from their planned Utah trip. Justin, JayLynn and Jadyn went down to Enterprise, Utah to be with the Holt family. The government in the USA were pleading with people to forego travel and stay at home in order to limit the spread of covid. We will see what happens in the next few weeks.
We are still awaiting Tom’s visits with two specialists. He has an in office visit with the one doctor on Friday and a phone visit with the other in a couple of weeks. We are praying and fasting that things go well. We are doing our best to eat low cholesterol to help get his cholesterol down and we are losing weight but still eating pretty well. We do love our food.
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