March 2019

02 February 2014

The beginning of February we spent a week in Bullhead Arizona before returning to Idaho.

On our way back to Idaho we spent the night with the Nebekers (a couple we were with on our mission in Mozambique, Africa). We also visited with Doug and Liz Adams (a couple from Yuba City, California). Lastly we visited with our former mission president Loren Spendlove and his wife Tina.

On our return to Idaho we found all well with our home. February can be cold and it started out very cold. Dawn and I jogged the Green Belt of the Snake River in early February and it was extremely cold (below zero) and the river was completely froze over. After being back from our cruise it was very difficult to jump back into the cold of Idaho.

I did uncover the VW later in the month but had to put the tarps back on until March.

This month we spent many days inside avoiding the cold weather. However, we did make a couple of nice outings. Dawn’s niece was married in Victor, Idaho at the Moose Creek Ranch. Rachel and Shawn Benjamin are now husband and wife.

February is also Valentines Day month on the 14^th and our wedding anniversary on the 16^th. We celebrated our 13^th wedding anniversary at home with a steak dinner provided for by Robyn and Wayne Lau through Omaha meats. Thank you very much, we thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful meal.

The paramount event this month centers around my darling wife, Dawn. She flew to San Francisco on the 20^th of February to be tested as a stem cell donor. Once more she was asked by the Natl’ Stem Cell Donors organization to assist her recipient of the past. Yates Lancing received a stem cell transplant from her 8 years ago. He is in need of a replenishing dose of Dawn’s T cells.

When she returned all was well with the testing and we both traveled to Palo Alto at Stanford University to complete the collection for Yates. We were picked up at the SF airport by Andy the limousine driver and transported to the Stanford Terrace Inn for two night stay. It was a beautiful motel with such an array of exotic plants. Then all day at Stanford Medical Center on the 28^th of February. Dawn is such a trooper and so pleasant throughout the procedure of catheterizing the jugular vein and lying in waiting for 8 hours with blood being drawn and separated into white cells and red cells that are returned to her.

The trip home was not so pleasant. Due to the terrific bad weather on the east and west coast our flights were delayed in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. As a result Josh (my son) picked us up at the SLC airport on Saturday and took us to Jon and Holly’s to stay the night. We had a great visit with all and so appreciated the hospitality on such short notice.

Once back home we settled down to routines of temple service and caring for those in need. One of them was my mother with a toilet leak. I was able to repair with all new parts saving her the need to replace the toilet. On that note I will close and hope for a warmer March.