A month of Emotions

This week has been extremely long. In addition to the normal December craziness of work, Christmas shopping, festival holiday decorating of the house and Christmas socials, we have had more than our fair share of individuals that we know pass away. At the end of last week Orlin Hatterman passed away and also a sister that lived in the neighborhood and had moved away.

Orlin lived in the home of Faye Hurst. Ginny has helped her for many years with her health concerns.

The other sister we don't know. She had moved from the ward before we became a part of the 1st Ward back in 2001.

Both of their burials were on Tuesday. These were in addition to the Relief Society dinner that evening, making for a long day for Ginny as she had to help take care of a part of all three of these. If this were not enough we also learned that day of the passing of Sister Loveless and Bishop Lloyd Viall.

Sister Loveless was a long time resident of the ward and had recently fallen and broke her neck and was in the hospital. She was a wonderful individual and we will certainly miss her.

Everyone knew Lloyd as Bishop Viall, because he had been a Bishop in the church long before we every moved to Kearns. I am not sure how old he was but definitely in his nineties. This was a man with a strong will and a love of people.

We had hoped that between the lost of these four individuals that things would calm down a bit, but we were then notified on the passing of my Uncle Dick. Uncle Dick is the husband of aunt LaRue who is my mother's sister.

This month has definitely been emotional. The passing of any one of these individuals would have been enough of the emotional roller coaster but at the end of November Ginny felt prompted that we should move. This has caused no small commotion among people in the ward. While we know we are suppose to move down closer to my office it has not been easy on Ginny. We have developed some close friends here in Kearns and Ginny has struggled with the fact that she will not be as close to these friends.

So on top of all the events this month we have been looking for a new home. We have spent one night a week with the Realtor looking at homes for the past three weeks. We have an idea of what we are looking for but are not sure if we will have a home built or if we will build. In any case we are working through all of this on the Lord's time. We could be here for a few months, up to six or seven months depending on how things go.

Ginny has told her close friends of our pending move and while they to will miss us being in the neighborhood they have consoled her and let her know that we are doing the right thing. This has help a great deal.