Dear Kids,
So we are now in Tooele with Dani and her clan (Alan, Stacey, Walker and Gavin). We left Idaho on January 7th. That night I headed to a retreat in Heber, Utah. Got to be with some great friends, we talked about gospel and higher laws. It was really nice, but man - I was exhausted!
We spent the last week at Mimi and Papa's house (I can't come to call it just Papa's house yet) packing everything up, getting the last minute fixes in, and helping to watch the girls for the first part of the week. There was more to wrap up than I had any idea actually. We finished up getting things into shape and packing. It's amazing how much we had become accustomed to being there and living there. It was really hard to wrap things up to go.
Thursday before we left I was cleaning up the herb room and I felt mom/Mimi right there around me the whole time. She hovered around me all day Thursday while we were getting ready to go. She was just whispering so many things over my shoulder. How proud she was of me for the work we did, for being there for Shay's kids, for helping Papa through the holidays, for what we had dedicated our hearts to, for turning to God, for so many different things. She told me she didn't know why I hadn't talked to her as much as I talk to Shay and I said, "Well, she got a head start and I got into the habit of talking to her before you joined her. You should have gone first! haha!" ... And mom laughed. She laughed at that. And Shay did too. They loved that. But I am going to try. Already I have been talking to her more.
I was time to go. We did what God needed us to do there in Idaho.
We've been on a mission - That's the only thing I can compare it too. My friend, Lynne (my mission companion) told me when we were talking that she was so amazed at how well I was handling everything. I just told her that I've been literally carried. The only thing I can compare it too is the way I was carried while I was on my mission. I am on the Lord's errand.... Our WHOLE FAMILY is. We are being carried by the Spirit. That's the only way we are getting through this, together.
The first couple of days at Dani's house has been rough for you all - you've all had a hard time adjusting emotionally to this change again. And in all honesty, our family is ready for our own space instead of living with other people right now. We'll get there as soon as we go where God is sending us next.
We have a "mission transfer" coming up and then we have the podcast to work on. That is the next part of this mission time. We have to finish the podcasts and get it out there.
I love you kids. I know each of you are going to look back on this part of our life and have different memories and different experiences. You will all have different emotional connections and different lessons from all of this. But God KNEW this was going to happen in our lives, in YOUR lives, so I suggest you get your lessons from it.
I love you,
Your Mom
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