Day 116

     We gave Katie some anti-nausea medication yesterday morning and she seemed fine the rest of the day.  We went to Lehi Days (a family rodeo).  We go every year and love it.  Katie didn't eat her BBQ lunch, but she did eat a popsicle and a little bit of cotton candy. =)   Scott grew up in Lehi, so he knows a lot of people there.  It was interesting yesterday, as we talked to people, how many said, "I had cancer... My wife had cancer.... My adult son has cancer..."  It was just another reminder, that we are not alone in our struggles.  One woman yesterday, told us she was going through a divorce and had just found out (two weeks ago) that her 21 year old son had been accidentally killed.  She still has young children at home, and I could feel her pain as she spoke.  There are so many people are having to deal with hard things.  I am so glad for our knowledge of the gospel and that we have our faith to see us through our difficult times.
     I may have already used this quote, but even if I have, it is worth repeating.  "Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us.  God loves us.  He is watching us.  He wants us to succeed.  We will know some day that He has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us.  If we only knew it, heavenly hosts are pulling for us - friends in heaven that we cannot now remember who yearn for our victory.  This is our day to show what we can do - what life and sacrifice we can daily, hourly, instantly make for God.  If we give our all, we will get His all from the greatest of all" (Ensign, Dec 1988, 6).