May 5, 2018

I am in the process of preparing myself to move to Utah temporarily to help take care of Tanya.  It was hard to get news from her that she has Leukemia again.  We have just been back into the temple for two weeks and have been looking forward to serving there for months while it was be repaired after Harvey.  Now we will probably be released as we travel to Utah for an undetermined stay.  

We are so worried about Tanya and realize it will much tougher for her this time and it is hard to see her suffering so.  Little Nathan is five years older and understands more that his Mom is very ill and we do not know how it will affect him.  At least this time there is family around that we can stay with in off weeks so we will not need to rent an apartment.  This is going to help a bunch on the budget.  

I have been pondering on why bad things happen to good people and know that it is just an occurrence of mortality and can not be explained.  But, it is still hard when it hits so close to home.  I was thinking how this last few years since our retirement we have been unable to finish callings that we have had in the church especially the ones we really enjoy.   We  had to come home early from our mission, we have to leave our temple calling early and there have been others.  I have decided the Lord uses us as trouble shooters and has us prepare the way  for others to take our place.  In Chile we had SRS groups active in all of our Stakes that we were assigned to and were released a year early.  We have given the temple calling a  good effort and now will be gone.  So i feel better about leaving with that thought in my mind.  

My family is very important to us and that i believe is our first responsibility  in this life.  Our Heavenly Father does all that he does for our benefit so I would expect that he is our example on how we deal with the family that he has blessed us with.  We really are blessed with the most wonderful children and Grandchildren and would really be miserable in that life without them.  So we are ready to take off and help our beautiful daughter and her family in this hard time.