It is Keaton’s birthday and only Keaton would get on the family chat site to wish himself a Happy Birthday. He is 13 years old today. The days come and go with their events and celebrations and their ups and their downs. Our exciting news this week came for Max. We awoke Monday morning to the family all abustle on the Extended Family site with news of Max departing to Australia December 14th. Word had come Sunday evening that visa holders would be allowed into Australia as of December 1 and Max was booked and ready to go. We are all so thrilled for both he and Jacqui for they can now go ahead with their long awaited for marriage. They will be married December 18 and hope to fly back here in the spring for Tom to seal them and to celebrate with family here. They have made the most of their Covid courtship - FaceTiming each day, doing online dating, receiving their endowments on the same day on different continents, serving in their church callings and most recently Max sacrificing his beard to accept a call to serve in the Temple. We are so happy for them.
I finally got to my PT appointment and had my back and neck worked on. I wish Tom could have some work done on his back to relieve his sciatic pain but everyone worries about touching his back with cancer in his bones. We attended two Temple sessions this week and served Wednesday evening and our regular shift Saturday Temple afternoon. We attended the second session, Friday morning, to be there with our dear neighbor Jean. Melissa Rolfson had invited Jean to come and Jean wanted us to be there with her. We are so proud of her. We watched the Vancouver Stake Conference via zoom on Sunday as Elders Wong and Wolsey were there to change the Stake Presidency. George Goeders, Joe Bateman and Chris Miller were released and Bishop (President) Kenneth Bateman, Chris Miller and Greg Hall were put in. All good men. President Bateman is the North Shore bishop at the moment but will quickly be released. Another North Shore Stake President! Almost all the Vancouver Stake Presidents have come from the North Shore including Tom. We started Christmas decorating this week past week and hope to be finished in the next day or so. We go on short daily walks, trying to keep Tom’s strength up. We are already making plans for our return trip to Germany for Tom’s December 13th second round of treatments.
Recovery from our heavy rains and floods has been moving forward amid gas shortages and now fear of more rain in the forecast. We carry on, carry on, carry on! We are living in an interesting and challenging time for us personally and for all mankind collectively.
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