We had an exciting weekend in that we had the opportunity of meeting our first great grandchild Treyson. We drove ourselves out to the airport in Vancouver on Thursday morning and obtained our pre travel covid test at the airport, receiving the results in about 15 minutes. We flew to Seattle, changed flights there and on to Salt Lake. We had wheelchair assistance in each airport. We were shocked as to how large the Salt Lake airport now is, how busy and how beautiful. It is no longer a the sleepy little airport it once was. Doug and Cathy Bull picked us up which was so kind of them. The day before we left I asked Justin if he could pick us up as I was worried that Tom would be tired and then stress over driving a rental car to Justin’s. Justin is doing a practicum in Salt Lake and was picking Jadyn up at the bus there and would have to return to pick us up later. I suggested an Uber but Rissa insisted that one of the Bull family members pick us up and that is what happened. We had a nice catch up with the Bull’s as we made the journey and Tom did realize that the rental and the freeway to an unknown destination would have been difficult for us to navigate in the dark. We were grateful to have Jadyn there too and we appreciated JayLynn’s hospitality. She is a good little wife and mother and very capable and kind. We loved our time with the baby and the kids. We bought them some groceries and gas and took them out for two meals. We went to see the townhouse that Trevor has bought and is being built, tended the baby when they went to church (we zoomed our church) and Tom gave Jadyn and Justin each a beautiful blessing. We watched two of Zach’s hockey games and Bryson and Keaton’s provincial wrestling championships. They all did well and it was nice to be able to watch.
The last part of our long weekend was spent with Carolyn. She picked us up on Monday and we took her for lunch and then she took us to see a play - Treasure Island - at the Hale family theatre. It was an excellent production and most enjoyable. We then went back to their home where Rebekah had dinner ready and Ephraim and Hannah and her new husband Caleb also came to be with us. Rebekah lives with Carolyn and the other three are there a good deal of the time and stayed the night we were there. Ephraim is doing very well with his business and the rest of them seem to be doing well too. They are all driving Tesla cars, happy, travelling and busy. It helped Tom feel better about Carolyn as he has been worried about her financially and in every other way with this difficult ongoing divorce with Tom Olson but she is a resilient, happy person and seems to be fine. She and Rebekah drove us to get our return covid test in Salt Lake while they got their hair cut and we then took them for lunch before they dropped us off at the airport and we retraced our route back home. Although we had help in the airports there was still a lot of walking for Tom and his leg was hurting and he was very tired by the time we got home. We did feel blessed for having made the trip and recognized that we had been helped along the way.
Jack left the Provo MTC on the day we were flying out of the Salt Lake airport but his time of departure for Africa did not correspond with our departure time at all. We were hoping we could be his farewell group. He and his travel companion have arrived safely in Benin into the arms of their mission President and wife and other missionaries. It has begun. We are excited for him. He will be a good missionary.
Rissa, Scott and the boys flew to California this weekend for their friend Jared Wall’s funeral. He died suddenly from an apparent heart attack leaving his wife Lindsey and four children. They had flight problems getting there but got home safely the same day we arrived home. Jadyn got back to Rexburg too.
We attended a Temple session on Tuesday morning and Tom worked as the sealer in the Temple Tuesday evening. We have been catching up on our correspondence and phone calls.
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