It’s a Sunday afternoon in Orem, Utah. We arrived early this morning for a short “vacation.” I’ll fly out tomorrow morning early for San Jose and Nina will stay the week. I’ll fly back on Friday evening (Halloween) and we’ll drive back to Colorado Springs on Sunday, November 2nd. The reason for the trip is that our granddaughter Danielle will be baptized next Saturday. The trip over here is part of the business trip. Sure saves money to do the trip in this fashion.

We drove over in the new toy! We finished loading up about 10 on Saturday morning and drove to the temple. We worked there until about 3 p.m. and by 3:30 we were on our way to Utah. The RV is now parked alongside our daughter Heather’s house where it’ll stay the rest of the week. Everything worked very well and the vehicle made the trip with no issues. It took about 9 hours to make the trip from the Denver Temple, including a short stop in Glenwood Springs for dinner. That last couple of hours from Green River, Utah, through Price, up and over the pass and into the valley seems to take a very long time. We were very happy to get here.

Heather had a nice family dinner this afternoon after church — turkey, stuffing, and all the extras that make up a wonderful Sunday dinner. It was almost like a Thanksgiving dinner. Heather sets a lovely table, so it was worth a picture of the table before we all sat down and had dinner. Daryl drove down from Salt Lake City to join us for dinner as well.

We attended church meetings with our daughter’s family. The featured speaker was a recently returned missionary from South America. He had just started speaking when he said that he needed to sit down as he was feeling light headed. An instant later he had passed out at the pulpit. A couple of folks helped him to the floor and a member of the bishopric stepped to the pulpit and began speaking as though nothing had happened!! It turns out the young man has an occasional problem with blood pressure dropping rapidly, generally when he’s speaking in Church! After the meeting, my son-in-law Ty asked when the last time was I’d seen someone pass out in church. I told him it wasn’t since yesterday…. We have a couple of medical emergencies a month on our shift in the temple, including one yesterday. Both Nina and I were sitting there quite flabergasted as the response was quite different than happens with the EMT’s in the temple!

The meal is done and things are being cleaned up. We’re getting a lot of unwanted help from Bradica (the dog). She’s discovered Heather’s Halloween candy and was just now scolded for climbing into the dishwasher and trying to clean off some plates. Fortunately Heather wasn’t around to see… It might have been too much! After I finish posting this, I’ll finish up getting things ready to go tomorrow. The airport shuttle driver should pick me up between 6:30 and 7:00 a.m. so it’ll be a fairly short night’s sleep.

The week in San Jose will be, as usual, quite busy. There are a lot of meetings scheduled and I hope to get up to the temple for at least one session.

I’m enjoying the RV and the time here in Utah. I’m looking forward to getting back here in a few days!