We hear from friends regularly with phone calls, messages, cards and gifts. People constantly tell us that they and others are praying for us. How blessed are we and could we possibly ask for or imagine more love coming our way? Truly life experiences and the gospel have brought many wonderful people into our lives and we pray for all of them in return.
I spoke in sacrament meeting on Sunday via zoom so I did spend time this week past preparing my talk on “Living a Consecrated Life”. I entitled it “Here Am I” after the Savior’s wonderful words in Heaven before we came to earth and the young boy Samuel’s words as the Lord called him repeatedly in the Temple one night. I have truly been blessed to associate with individuals living lives of consecration throughout my life. We are now looking to prepare for a Bellingham YSA conference we have been asked to participate in this month. We will be discussing the Temple and the Power it brings into our lives.
We have had a phone appointment with Dr. Collingridge this week and bloods tests for Tom. He has felt quite good and though the hormones have alleviated much of the back pain, he does experience pain in his groin area and limps some of the time. He keeps working on the option of treatments in Australia. We walk everyday, take care of our home and go out to do errands and generally try to remain busy. Tom did another puzzle this week which he seems to enjoy doing. We have been to the bank for a meeting too. We continue to meet with Carol thru the week and take her the sacrament on Sunday. Tom insists on kneeling to pray and to do the sacrament. I don’t even kneel because of my bad knee. Tom has been working with President Irwin regarding our USA money left in England and our belongings left there in hopes of our return. Tom has been working on repairing the doorbell and getting a new SIM card set up on our mobile. All these things seem to take some time to do and also require someone directing you on the phone.
We had our family zoom on Sunday and that fills our hearts. We are very blessed and we both know if we were stranded on an island we would want to be with each other. We are in fact on somewhat of an isolation island right now and we are with who we would chose to be with. Our situation may look a little daunting but we are prayerful, hopeful and we are very grateful.
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