Dear Family & Friends,
This year has been a memorable year for us. We are grateful for the many blessings that we have received.
In February Jim was diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer in both lungs when going for a Pre-Op chest x-ray for a hip operation. Our Bishop asked the ward and the Stake President asked the stake to pray and fast for his recovery. Miracles do happen. Now the cancer is in complete remission. We are very thankful for the faith and prayers of family, friends and all who supported us at this trying time.
We thank Heavenly Father on a daily basis for this wonderful miracle. Jim continues to be on the medication which has side effects. However, we have been blessed to be able to continue with the patriarchal blessings and working in the Snowflake temple. We are very grateful to be able to continue with our church service. This has been a very trying time in our life and we are blessed to feel the peace that comes through the atonement of our Savior.
We have traveled to be with family on important dates. We flew to Seattle Washington for the blessing of our grandson Weston and the baptism of our granddaughter Lindsey. Then to Springfield Oregon for the baptism of our grandson Jackson and grandson Javan's ordination to an Elder and receiving his patriarchal blessing. We were also pleased to congratulate our son-in-law Scott on his graduation from Brigham Young University Idaho. We drove to Salt Lake for the wedding and reception of our niece Melissa. Traveled to the Gila Valley to see our first great-grandchild Kinley Ann Maner baby of J.R., our oldest grandson and Kalli. She is the cutest little baby. In celebrating our forty- seventh wedding anniversary, we went to The Lion King in the Arizona State University Gammage Auditorium. In August we went to Sky Harbor to see our 2nd grandson, J.T. come home from his mission to Dominican Republic Santo Domingo West. My how the time goes by so fast. We finally for the first time went to see the Grand Falls near Leupp out of Winslow. It was amazing. After seeing it, we wondered why it has taken us so long to go and see it. Some of its other names are Chocolate or Mud Falls and we can see why - it only runs during 
spring run- off or summer floods and looks like liquid mud. Jim was honored in March to be asked to baptize a good friend Mike. It was a very wonderful occasion.
The death of our Aunt Viola saddened us. She has always been a special aunt to us and we have done many things on a regular basis with her. She is certainly missed.
We had a wonderful event in July in the Snowflake Arizona temple with the marriage of our daughter Luann to Chad Crosby from Eagar. They were congratulated by many friends and family at their receptions in Snowflake and Eagar.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
Love,
Jim & Kathie
2 comments:
Lots of blessings this year! So grateful that Uncle Jim came through his C scare and that you are both able to continue to serve. We LOVED getting to be at Chad and Luann's wedding and reception. They were such a beautiful couple and I have always loved her and was happy to see her so happy.
Love to you all! Best wishes for 2014!
I enjoyed your letter Aunt Kathie, thanks for writing it! We sure love your family!
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