Thanks- information abt chiropractor‏

Dearest family: thank you much for the pleasant Thanksgiving day with you and family and for the very good dinner. Myrna, the lemon pie was just superb!! Thank you.

Nanci and I visited on the phone today as it is our 35th adoption day anniversary. She is getting information sent to you this week from the chiropractor she goes to and the way he works with her and other information that maybe  helpful. Also want to let you know- Eva went to a seminar last week or so sponsored by the Maple Ridge Pain Clinic- these are chiropractors who use as one of their methods the same one Nanci is having with such success. It doesn't cure but truly relieves pain. Today Eva had an appointment at the Clinic for an evaluation as to whether she qualifies and whether they think they can help her.

I did call the main office for Maple Ridge here in Salt Lake today for information for you folks. They do have a satilite office in Orem- at 3507 North University- phone # 801-623-4740. The person I spoke with said you could call this number and find out when they have their next Seminar- which is free. Those who attend the seminar and are interested have a courtesy evaluation without charge. That is what Eva had today, she has an appointment on Wednesday to find out whether she qualifies.

One of the techniques they use is decompression, which is what Nanci has. Hope Nanci's information arrives during the week.

Have a good week. From the weather cast tonight we will have snow by tomorrow p.m. Surely hope Don and Thelma arrive home by afternoon tomorrow. Love you all much. Fathers' special blessing attend. Love Helen

Thanksgiving

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We walk on starry fields of white

And do not see the daisies,

For blessings common in our sight

We rarely offer praises.

We sigh for some supreme delight

To crown our lives with splendour,

And quite ignore our daily store

Of pleasures sweet and tender.

Our cares are bold and push their way

Upon our thought and feeling;

They hang about us all the day,

Our time from pleasure stealing.

So unobtrusive many a joy

We pass by and forget it,

But worry strives to own our lives,

And conquers if we let it.

There’s not a day in all the year

But holds some hidden pleasure,

And, looking back, joys oft appear

To brim the past’s wide measure.

But blessings are like friends, I hold,

Who love and labour near us.

We ought to raise our notes of praise

While living hearts can hear us.

Full many a blessing wears the guise

Of worry or of trouble;

Far-seeing is the soul, and wise,

Who knows the mask is double.

But he who has the faith and strength

To thank his God for sorrow

Has found a joy without alloy

To gladden every morrow.

We ought to make the moments notes

Of happy, glad Thanksgiving;

The hours and days a silent phrase

Of music we are living.

And so the theme should swell and grow

As weeks and months pass o’er us,

And rise sublime at this good time,

A grand Thanksgiving chorus.

Location

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I have had no luck in getting a response from Charlotte or Wally. I was in hopes in traveling to ID. and visiting with them with the intent of getting a look at the Pitts family album. My intent is to obtain the much wanted photo's of our family and other family interactions. I of course will bring along a scanner and my own laptop to make it easy to copy the wanted photo's. Could you provide me with their latest email address so I am sure that I am getting my message to them I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks
PS. I went to SLC to celebrate Mom's 90th birthday. October 27th. and had a great time.

Your Cousin, Al Pitts
Manufacturing Engineering
Boeing Affordability Task Force

Dear Trauntweins

Dear Trauntweins

It has been a long time, we are so busy at work, and I work with computers all day long, so I get so tired, I do not want to see a computer when I get home at night.

We have just been to a very nice stakekonference to-day, It started with a half our concert by the stake coir, which is very, very good. I just loved it. Then the meeting started with a testimony from a returned missionary, than a talk from our new missionpres. It probably was good, but very hard to understand, he is an American, has been on a mission in Sweden, and tried to talked Danish. He seams a very nice man and he tried, that gives him points. The next speaker was our new tempelpres, who is Swedish and talked in Danish but did a very nice job. He has been a counsellor in the temple for two years, when the temple was first opened. He alwas gives some very inspired speeches, he also did that today. He started talking, and had a lot crying including himself and me, it is so embarresing that I always cry. Well I wasn’t the only one. Then he showed us his paper and said I always have to talks this one, and showed us the paper and then he pointed to his hart and said one here, I think I will give you the one here. And he gave a wonderful talk from his hart about the blessings given when we to temple work. Then the stakepres for the relief society talked about celestial marriage. She started by telling that she grow up in a very strange family, where her father did not think he had to stay faithful to her mother, and on Christmas eve he would eat with the family and then would say he had to go and earn some money, he was a taxi driver, but she later found out he was with another family. So when she learned about the church when she was 18. and could see married couple that loved each other, and were faithful to each other, she thought that’s were where she wanted to bee. And then she went on and said different very smart things. it was not so much about what they could do if they had more money, but what they could do, with the money they had. It wasn’t about having a lot of money, they had not had a lot of them, but it did not matter so much. It was about being together, being committed to each other, and to their marriage. To never think about divorce, but always be committed. You could disagree, quarrel, but always be committed to your partner. Like you could be looking at the moon and a claud would get in front, but you would know that behind the claud there was the moon still. I just loved her speech, and was still crying like a baby the spirit was so strong. Last was our Stakepres and he always has some good things to say. He was talking about that it is by grace that we are saved. I whish a lot more people has what we have. I felt so blessed that I was granted a time here on this earth while the gospel is here and that I have been blessed with the knowledge of it. Sometimes, when I think how blessed I am, I am so thankful. It is great to be a member of the church of Jesus Christ. I’m thankful that I got to know you twoo, it is a blessing to have good friend, even when they are so far away. I love you too and think of the time I spend with you in the spring wit joy in my hart, thaks for all you did for me, for all the driving and for caring. I think with great joy of the time we spend in the Manti temple, it was very special for me to be there with you two, with trauntwein and Durfy at one and the same time. I also love my visit to the Salt Lake temple. I met sis Jensen from Lyngby at the conference. She I doing just fine. She would like to write, but she said she has such a hard time writing in English, so I told her just to write in Danish, you would probably understand, if not you would have to ask for the gift of thungs. But she did say she thought of you often. Thanks for being so good friends. I hope that your family are all doing fine. Our family are doing fine, but Jacob and his children could use some prayers.

Love Else