President Van Horne, the Vancouver Temple President, asked to have a zoom meeting with us yesterday morning. He informed us that they had received a letter from President Nelson informing them that Tom’s sealing authority had been returned to the Vancouver Temple from London and then he called both of us to be Temple workers again. We were thrilled. We miss the Temple. Tom misses the Temple and longs to be there. The Vancouver Temple is only at phase one right now and so,
unless Tom is asked to perform a sealing of two endowed individuals, it may be awhile before we are able to serve. We are ready and waiting to seal Ross and Sarah but we need to get Sarah endowed first.
We had our regular family zoom meeting with the children on Sunday. We love that. Zach was getting ready to play a hockey game so unable to be there. Cindy’s family did the thought and Paul told a family history story about true love. It was Valentines Day. Once we concluded that zoom meeting we got onto our London Temple Missionaries zoom. Brother Grames from Idaho set that meeting up. It was wonderful to see everyone and just listen to everyone talk. Such a special consecrated group of individuals who are sharing this mandatory covid stop experience to their missions and service. We had our weekly zoom meeting with Carol and took her the sacrament on Sunday.
We were finally able to meet Tom’s oncologist Doctor Bahl on Friday. He seemed like a nice young man. He assured us that the hormones are the first line of defence and treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. You do one treatment until it fails and then move on to the next. He said that the theranostic treatment Tom had been looking at in Germany and Australia was coming here to Abbotsford Cancer Clinic and should be left as a later treatment option because if it were used now, we would not be able to go back to the treatments we might use successfully before it. He told us to eat normally and just not binge or be crazy. Tom starts the next hormone next week and it may be the strongest and have the most effect. We hope it shrinks the cancer sites and reduces the pain he has in his upper leg. Some hormones work on the pituitary gland and others work on glands above the kidneys. So our journey goes. Tom watched a webinar on prostate cancer that Don Anderson suggested. We still receive calls and messages from friends sending their love and concerned with how we are doing. We are grateful for everyone’s prayers and their love. Even our financial planner and accountant have told us they are praying for us.
Our granddaughter Jadyn has recovered from covid along with all her roommates. JayLynn, our granddaughter in law, went to Enterprise this past week to recuperate from her gallbladder surgery at her parents’ home. We have been working on our workshop for the Bellingham YSA conference to be held February 17th. We received snow on Saturday and woke up to Cindy and Paul shovelling for us and our neighbors next door. The snow is pretty well melted now but not before numerous snowmen were built. We continue to walk when there is no ice. We took the BMW to have it’s noisy radio system repaired today. We ordered food on Saturday to celebrate Valentines and picked up Jerusalem Grill food today while we were out. We are not suffering from the isolation completely.
Our days seem to be full and we are tired every night. Now if we could just sleep better. We are grateful to have each other and never tire of that blessing.
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