From the Jensen House (where ever that is!!)

I agree, we need to get back to this. I really enjoy reading everyone's contributions but seem to be a bit slow at adding mine.

Christmas was great. With the funeral being on the 19th. that made it so Neil could just stay for Christmas. It was great having him here. It made it so we were all there at Gaylene's on Christmas day. Every one completely spoiled everyone and we discussed cutting back on all the presents, etc. We are considereing doing something different next Christmas. Don't know what yet, but we need to change the program. We could all go on a nice trip for what we all spent.

Gayle and I went back to Lethbridge on Christmas night and spent two days putting Christmas away and cleaning house so I could leave with him and come up to Peace River. Does that statement bring back shades of mother????? Oh well, I couldn't have people coming in to water my plants and seeing a dirty messy house. So we left on Saturday the 28th, stopped and spent some time with Colleen and Dave and then drove on to Edmonton. That made the rest of the trip to Peace River much more manageable.

It has been COLD here but since Tuesday it has been much nicer. It gets warm and there is no wind so it is very bearable. It is downright pretty with all the snow and the warmer weather. On Monday we took Gayle to Grande Prairie to a Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist. He said the polyp in Gayle's nose is a symptom of allergies. That surprised us as we weren't aware that he had any allergies. It does make sense though as he has been struggling with skin eruptions for about a year now. He saw a Dermatologist here in PR and he said it could be allergies too. So now we have to just figure out what he is allergic to and take the appropriate action.

Going to Church here has been most interesting. The first sunday I was here the Branch President pulled me into his office and called me as the RSP. I about fainted. When I told him I didn't plan to be here full time, he said, "Well we can work with that. You just call two good councillors and they carry the load when you are away." He said to go home and pray about it as he had been doing that and my name kept coming back to him. So I came home and worried about it for a week, prayed about it and got nothing but the stupor of thought. I feel guilty about turning it down. I have never done that before in my life. But the next sunday when I gave him a schedule of when I planned to be here and when I planned to be at home, he said, "Maybe I better go back and rethink it all." I was relieved but still felt bad for them. There were 7 women in RS on Sunday. They have the presidency and teachers on their board. That is it. I told him I would help them all I could but I didn't want to be a lame duck president.

So I have lots of time on my hands but I am keeping busy. I brought back all the Jensen family photos after the funeral and I am scanning and organizing them. I eats up the time really well. I also brought my sewing machine so I could hunker down and just enjoy myself. A sister called me yesterday and I went visiting teaching with her. That was nice. I enjoyed it.

So how and what is everyone else doing. We sure are looking forward to going to Phoenix in March. Taylor is really excited too. It should really be fun.

Talk to you all later.

Love from
LA and Gayle