I thought recently about the quote that President Gordon B. Hinckley shared in a General Conference…“Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”
We’re experiencing one of those delays or sidetracks now as we’ve been trying to sell our home since June of last year. We have a new home being built in South Jordan. The home we thought we were supposed to be in. But it is to be completed in 20 days and we are leaving on our mission shortly after that. It’s been a difficult thing realizing our dream is not coming
about. We thought we were doing the right thing and moving to the right place. Our Ward family and immediate family have been praying and fasting for this sale for months. I suspect someday we will look back and say how grateful we are those prayers were not answered, for we trust Heavenly Father has another, better plan.
Little Nathan recently had a very serious spinal surgery. It scared us so much as he's gone through this potentially life-altering surgery. He's recovering well. Wearing a neck and head brace to protect the fragile, still developing bone replacing deteriorated discs.
Ron has had one medical problem after another. Arthritic knees that he is trying everything possible to overcome, short of replacement surgery, so he can walk the needed 3 miles a day on our mission. Eye problems that have gone from herpes infection to cataract surgery to clouded sight in his one remaining good eye. Shingles, then intestinal infection, then plummeting blood pressure for no apparent reason. Now his blood pressure has shot up the other way and recent stomach scope showed a hiatal hernia and ulcer. In between all that he had surgery on his foot and is back in for more knee treatment. Craziness...
I was recently blessed to be in attendance at our Stake Women’s Conference and the beautiful presentation on Jesus Christ helped me remember and get back on track with my knowledge that when we trust and have faith and leave things in the hands of our Savior and Heavenly Father, they always turn out for the best, for They love us and have our interests always as their #1 concern.
We've been doing a lot of studying and reading journal accounts of the pioneers who were on the handcart companies in Wyoming when early winter snow storms caused terrible suffering and hardship for all. One journal entry, from Susanna Stone Lloyd was simple, but profound..."we traveled on, trusting in God". And that's what we will do as well. Our challenges are nothing compared to theirs. We'll go forward in faith.
We’re experiencing one of those delays or sidetracks now as we’ve been trying to sell our home since June of last year. We have a new home being built in South Jordan. The home we thought we were supposed to be in. But it is to be completed in 20 days and we are leaving on our mission shortly after that. It’s been a difficult thing realizing our dream is not coming
about. We thought we were doing the right thing and moving to the right place. Our Ward family and immediate family have been praying and fasting for this sale for months. I suspect someday we will look back and say how grateful we are those prayers were not answered, for we trust Heavenly Father has another, better plan.
Little Nathan recently had a very serious spinal surgery. It scared us so much as he's gone through this potentially life-altering surgery. He's recovering well. Wearing a neck and head brace to protect the fragile, still developing bone replacing deteriorated discs.
Ron has had one medical problem after another. Arthritic knees that he is trying everything possible to overcome, short of replacement surgery, so he can walk the needed 3 miles a day on our mission. Eye problems that have gone from herpes infection to cataract surgery to clouded sight in his one remaining good eye. Shingles, then intestinal infection, then plummeting blood pressure for no apparent reason. Now his blood pressure has shot up the other way and recent stomach scope showed a hiatal hernia and ulcer. In between all that he had surgery on his foot and is back in for more knee treatment. Craziness...
I was recently blessed to be in attendance at our Stake Women’s Conference and the beautiful presentation on Jesus Christ helped me remember and get back on track with my knowledge that when we trust and have faith and leave things in the hands of our Savior and Heavenly Father, they always turn out for the best, for They love us and have our interests always as their #1 concern.
We've been doing a lot of studying and reading journal accounts of the pioneers who were on the handcart companies in Wyoming when early winter snow storms caused terrible suffering and hardship for all. One journal entry, from Susanna Stone Lloyd was simple, but profound..."we traveled on, trusting in God". And that's what we will do as well. Our challenges are nothing compared to theirs. We'll go forward in faith.
