This morning, at the request of the mom, Elder Gowans had the opportunity to go and bless 3 children as they start a new school year. Typically this would be dad's job, but dad is on a long TDY. If you read our post from a few days ago, this is the family that the Spirit directed us to go drop in on and we found out that dad had just received a short notice, lengthy TDY. She asked us to return today to give her 3 children blessings for the new school year. It was a wonderful, and very spiritual experience.

After lunch we drove up to doctor's hospital to return to our friend his clean clothes that we washed for him. He was hoping that he would be released in the next week or so, but another doctor said it would not be for nearly a month. Wow! That would certainly be a blow. The doctor said that they need to see the tendon in his arm increase in health and then still do one more skin graft. He has already been in the hospital for more than 3 weeks and possibly another month still to go.

This evening we visited our chaplain's family and had a very enjoyable visit with them. He looks a lot like my brother Mike, so it made me wish I could be with him and his family too. After visiting with them, we went to visit a single sister, who will soon be engaged to marry. She and her near fiance plan on marrying in March, but as of yet they haven't made it official. We sure enjoy our visits with these great families.