Labour Day has come and gone and the children are back to school this week, although our American grandchildren have been back in school for awhile. Zach is waiting to drive out west to Boise to start playing for the Steelheads and Jaydn has been recovering from her tonsillectomy and will be doing online school this semester from BYU Idaho. Justin has started another semester in PT graduate school and Ross is on his way back to school again too. Max’s online school is ongoing and he is still waiting to get to Australia and to Jaqui to get married. JayLynn’s pregnancy is moving on with baby due in January.
Our exciting news this week is that Zachary went to the Nashville Temple on Saturday to receive his endowment. I think it was a little overwhelming for him but he is excited to go again and that is best thing to do - go again and again. We had a busy Temple week last week with Tom serving as sealer on Wednesday and Friday evenings, along with our regular session Tuesday morning and our regular service shift Saturday afternoon. It was almost like serving in the presidency again. We love it.
Jack had driven back to Kelowna with Brendon and Bryson when they were here last and Cindy, Paul and Sam drove up this Labour Day weekend to visit and pick him up. Paul and Sam came over yesterday to help us trim our Dogwood tree in the backyard and cut our grass. Jack rode his bike over this morning to be here for the delivery of Tom’s xtandi medication while we were at the Temple but the delivery came just before he arrived and we left. I thought that might happen. He did stay to do a zoom meeting he had to attend and eat some treats.
We continue to swim twice a week and Tom is doing his stretching exercises, his inversion table and his stationary bike. He does pretty well in the Temple and at the swimming pool but he seems to struggle with church on Sunday. He gets a lot of hot flashes and seems to be uncomfortable. The hormones he has been taking for hot flashes don’t seem to be helping and in fact seems to increase the problem. He is extremely brave as he is in pain most of the time but carries on.
The weather has generally been lovely with the odd cool day. Fall is coming slowly. We still need to get more rain to get the wild fires under control. The air quality in Kelowna has not been good. We are having more fires every year and throughout the world more sever weather patterns are becoming the norm.There are many days when we just feel ready for the Savior’s return and relief from the world and it’s turmoil. We are grateful to know the plan and know He will be coming.
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