We had so much fun with Todd, Amy and crew in O-Hi-O! We still can't believe our time there has come and gone and is already a week behind us (or two or three by the time you read this). The weather was beautiful. The leaves were beautiful. The perks of having wonderful family members who can cook, entertain, clean up after you, chauffer you, etc. was beautiful (all for free, for us). It was just great! We highly recommend it to all you Utahans who are thinking of venturing that way. (By the way, you can stop in Colorado on the way. Now, if we could only get one of you to move to St. Louis, we'd have a perfect cross-country tour with designated free rest stops from Utah to Boston.)
Kirtland was amazing. Several of our friends here (in the Springs) had said that you could tour Kirtland in a few hours and call it good. I think we could have actually spent a little more time there. It was amazing to visit the temple. What was more remarkable was the lack of sacred feelings we now experience in that building compared to the feelings of peace induced by just walking the grounds of our temples today. We took the Kirtland Temple tour with a group of LDS people from Australia and some seminary students from New York (I think). It was pretty much a normal tour of any historic building until one of the seminary teachers broke out the words to The Spirit of God, only then did the Spirit witness to each of us individually of the incredible events that took place in that once sacred location. It was remarkable! It reiterated the importance of treating our bodies as temples. That once holy edifice had become devoid of the Spirit, yet each of us became holy "places" for the spirit to come and testify of the love of our Father in Heaven, his Son and the restoration of truths that will allow us to be together as families forever. Incredible!
Kirtland wasn't the only fun thing we did either! Our girls will say the best and most fun was playing with their cousins. They are still talking about all the fun times they had. Emma is so amazed that none of her friends here know her "friends, Cousin Tyler and Cousin
Emily." I think she thinks they are so wonderful that everyone should at least "know of" them.
Needless to say, life is now back to normal. I'm still trying to work off those few extra lbs from the smores; cheese, jam and fudge smorgasbords; and great German pancakes. I had to bring home something and the added weight was the easiest thing to carry. Now we are in the mad dash to prepare for Ryan's surgery (this will probably go out afterward). It also happens to be the day of our ward's Trunk-or-Treat party, a dress-up birthday party for Emma and regular old school day for Whitney. We have everything worked out (we hope). We just pray that all will go well with the anesthesia. We're pretty confident in the surgeon himself (he does 80 percent of the cases in Colorado every year), so we aren't so fearful of the surgery. Please just keep us and especially Ryan and his doctors and nurses in your prayers.
We'll keep you posted.
Love,
The Waites
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