Today is Anderson’s tenth birthday. During August 2011 we had three grandchildren come into the world - twins Halle Renae and Sayde Marie Burgess and Anderson Alan Bull. Halle and Anderson were both stillborn. Sayde was the only one of the three that survived. Since that month we joyed in the privilege of having Sayde with us and we have grieved for the loss of Halle and Anderson. What a trio they would have been and hopefully someday they will have the opportunity of being.
Brendon and Bryson came down this last weekend for Bryson to attend a wrestling camp in Richmond. They were here for two days and kindly mowed our lawn, set up our new inversion table, changed a doorknob and replaced a toilet seat in our bathroom. Brendon is trying so hard to help us out each time they visit and we really appreciate his efforts. He has his parents in Kelowna too that are struggling with his mother’s illness. Jack went back up with them. He is trying to be with Sianne who is visiting family up there too.
The highlight of our week was our neighbor Jean’s first visit to the Temple to receive her endowment. She went on Saturday the 28th on our shift. She had invited the Mandarin members of our ward and Shannon Tsai as her escort. I went over a few days earlier to help her pack her Temple clothes and go over a few things with her. The Temple kindly ran the session in Mandarin and she did really well. We were so pleased and happy for her. She is remarkable and we are proud of her and the girls. I tell her we were prompted to move to this neighborhood for them. They are blessing in our lives.
Tom is faithfully doing his exercises and we are still going swimming twice a week. Not our thing but we are doing it and trying to keep his strength up. He is rarely taking any painkillers as they don’t seem to help and only create side affects. We have tried the inversion table too.
We celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary on August 26 by ordering dinner from the Keg. We are so grateful for each other and more in love than ever. He is the best decision I have ever made and I am the best decision he ever made but we have always felt that the decision was made long before we ever came to earth. How blessed we are and we are very much aware of that fact.
The Sister missionaries came over to visit us Thursday morning. They live in Jean’s basement so coming over is not a long journey. The rest of our week filled up with our session at the Temple on Tuesday morning and our service in the Temple Wednesday evening (Tom filling in for Brother Barrett) and Saturday afternoon. We do our regular weekly grocery shopping and Tom is finding electric grocery carts in all the different stores. We keep ourselves busy.😊
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