Dear Brent,
I've appreciated remembering the scripture "With God, nothing shall be impossible" this week in our Come Follow Me study. Mostly I've applied that to a lot of cleaning up vomit, but always nice how the Lord's help is so personalized haha. We hope it also applies to your visa going through on time! So exciting to have real travel plans--& I'm hoping that means your visa is okay??--or at least on track?!
We had the Shumway younger 4 kids Mon & Tues while their parents were out of town, and as I struggled a bit with feelings of "Life's not fair" this week as the kids passed along stomach bugs -ha!--You'd think I would've outgrown it soon enough w/ Grandpa always answering with, "You're right, Life's not fair!" but it's such a part of human nature! It helped to connect with others--Sis. Hess's brother passed away, so we got together a gift from YW leaders, and Sis. Sandall had surgery, so we dropped off bread & jam; and then POOR Bishop!!!--got his hand chewed up in his snowblower!!!--so we've been praying hard for him, and the Laurels heart attacked his door (& Sis Hess's) for activities. Then Bishop spoke today in ward council about the funeral for this brother, who had been homeless a lot of his life, and how many homeless people attended the funeral, and I thought, in a different way, "Life's really not fair"--only with a feeling of gratitude. I was reading through one of my old journals too--during a really hard time of life, and I had written how grateful I was for a talk by Sis Oscarson where she said, "All that is unfair can be made right through the Atonement." It's so true--and so easy to forget, but so true.
In between stomach bugs and sheet washing (SO GRATEFUL FOR OUR NEW WASHER/DRYER!!!!--THEY WORK SO FABULOUSLY!!!!), we've had the usual: basketball, dance, violin, and met up w/ Blair & his wife/mom at the temple Friday night, then tried a new Japanese place in Brigham City--yummo. Anne made the robotics club & I took Lucy to another eye doctor this week (her 3rd) to look at vision therapy, and he concluded that her binocular vision was so great from just having had her glasses a few months, that vision therapy would be excessive and unnecessary! Love little miracles like that! Good luck as your time winds down there, and know we love and pray for you always!! Love, Mom
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