It is hard to believe, but two months from today, Oct. 11, dad and I will finish our missionary service here in the California Los Angeles Mission. We have very mixed feelings - from sadness at leaving the people we have grown to love, the missionaries we have served, and the responsibilities that we have had, to excitement about our upcoming trips to visit all of you, and just being home again with time to putter. Leslee asked if we wanted them to come and "pick up us from our mission". We said that would be great! I wish we could think of something to do rather than go directly home - I don't know why, but just going home makes me feel a little lonely - I need something in between as a "buffer" or transition, I guess. The Crook's, when they left, drove to Utah and then on to Idaho for a couple of weeks and then went home. At the time they were planning that I thought it was kind of funny that they wouldn't go home first, but I'm beginning to understand. I know this sounds silly and sentimental, but, oh well, it is the way I feel. So, if any of you have suggestions, we are open to them.
The Chantilly house is no longer ours. After 4 years of "trials and tribulations" with that place it is sold and we no longer have to worry about it or think about it. I don't believe that concept has sunk in with us yet. We appreciate the love, support, and encouragement you were to us during the hard times with that "saga'. We believe the resolution of the law suit associated with that house and the subsequent sale are direct blessings from our mission. We know without the Lord's help we are nothing.
Well, this has gone on long enough. We love you, we are proud of you (in the very best sense of the word) we are grateful for you, we thank you for your love. We feel incredibally blessed to be the parents and grandparents of such exceptional and beautiful and wonderful children.
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