From our house to yours –
we send
our love
and prayers to you and your loved
ones.
Where has 2015 gone? It seemed to fly by. Our life is full of activity,
full of people, full of blessings.
We both enjoy teaching pre-schoolers in MOPS, delivering Meals on Wheels
and providing rides for people to doctor’s appointments through Love, INC (In
the Name of Christ). We still
square dance almost weekly. Card
club is once a month. Marlys leads
a Bible study and Larry attends Camera Club. Marlys has traveled with her duties as president of Women
Ministries of the Northwest Conference.
Those are just the basic activities and we fit our family’s and friend’s
activities and celebrations into that grid.
The blessings are many.
Larry’s health has been very good
following the prostate cancer procedure at Thanksgiving in 2014. He was having problems with his feet,
so worked with a foot doctor to take off planter’s warts. He’s had bouts of
gout in one toe but that seems better now. He recently had another BLU light session to burn off
pre-cancer cells on his head and forehead. Marlys has aches and pains in her lower back and
legs. There is nothing specific
that an Aleve now and then won’t help.
She continues to get to Curves for exercise several times a week.
We celebrated our 50th
Wedding Anniversary on July 2nd. To celebrate, we traveled for more than a month (May) in our
van and also flew to Hawaii – the last of the 50 states and the only one left
to see on the list. Only Larry and
Marlys would drive to Hawaii!
Well, we drove thru Cheyenne, Spokane, and Seattle. Then we flew to Hawaii for two weeks
and back to Seattle. We continued
our road trip in Washington and Oregon.
Then we enjoyed the trip home through eastern Oregon, Boise, ID and Salt
Lake City. Our most treasured
memories of the trip are the people we visited. Thank you to all who hosted us, especially to Mel &
Vicki. We were so happy to see
friends, Larry’s classmate, cousins and missionaries! The pictures we took in Hawaii and en route remind us what a
beautiful country we live in – we are so privileged to live in the USA!
We continued to celebrate our anniversary
on August 15th with the Mayo Camp picnic and then an open house at
the campground. The picnic had
been planned for a year and we decided to combine it with our anniversary
celebration. It was a hot day with
a great wind. Thank you to all those who came to share our joy - classmates,
teacher friends, church people, square dancers, neighbors and family – we are
really blessed by knowing all of you.
Peggie Su arrived for our party from
Taiwan. She stayed with us for two
weeks before going to San Francisco for English classes. She and Eva had visited us two years
ago. They have invited us to visit
them in Taiwan. We are planning a
trip there in February of 2016.
The tickets are bought!
In September, we headed south for two
weeks to visit cousins in Oklahoma.
We are so happy to connect with the ‘sissies.’ Sue & Bobby hosted us and her sisters for a Labor Day
gathering. It was a healing time
following their son, Timmy’s, home going.
In November, we spent two days in Brainerd
with the Mayo cousins and saw the Goedderz’s too. A whole slew of us sorted through old pictures and
cards from Grandma Mayo and Mannie & Irma. We went over to see Dale Brick in the nursing
home. Dale passed away just after
Thanksgiving.
We’ve had sad occasions this year – losing
Lyle Goodman, Timmy Strain, Miles Wilson, and Dale Brick.
But
we’ve also had happy times – looking at family history with Brad & Maureen,
Jamie (Lee) & Andy Arola’s marriage, Gen & Vivi’s baptism, visiting
with Tom Crockett at Linda & Irwin’s house, a mission trip to
Duluth/Superior with Rajah and Luke, Dave Johnson’s 75th birthday
party and celebrating 50 years of marriage.
We wish you a wonderful
holiday season – full of joy that comes from knowing Jesus, the reason for the season. Love,
Larry
& Marlys
I pray that out of his
glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your
inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and
established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people,
to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know
this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of
all the fullness of God. Eph. 3:16-19
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