We’re taking a brief leave-of-absence from our mission from Thanksgiving, November 24 through Tuesday, November 29th to fly to South Carolina. Nina’s older sister has terminal cancer and we’d like to spend a little time with her before she passes away and while she’s able to handle the company. So, we’re looking at two weeks of jetlagged, zombie existence. It’ll be nice to see her and her family, though.

Our return to the mainland for release from our mission has been set at January 28th. That’s a Saturday morning. Our replacements arrive on the previous Wednesday evening so we’ll have two days overlap with them. We had twenty minutes overlap with the folks we were replacing, so this will be very nice. We’ll arrive in Salt Lake about 8pm on January 28th and will be crashing at our daughter Heather’s home in North Salt Lake. No further plans have been made, but will be Real Soon Now!