Grandma Ree's letters

Dear Family and Friends,     Well, the month of May has come and gone, leaving me with a few experiences I'd like to share with you.     Since receiving my first prosthesis back in August of 2021, and struggling to learn how to adapt to it, I've felt lucky to have had only one minor "rolling backwards" fall that didn't seem to bother me at all, and True was immediately there to pick me up and get me back using my walker again.     Early in May, I was invited by the youth of the church to a "tea party" in honor of Mother's Day for the elderly sisters in the ward, and I was anxious to attend. I arranged for a ride with someone else to take me to the church. But as the time approached, I was hurrying around and getting frustrated because my ride hadn't arrived yet, but when True told me it was still 45 minutes until they they were supposed to arrive, I was startled, and from the bathroom I turned and stretched to see what time it was on the clock in...

 

 

  Dear Family and Friends, With the coming of April, along with the bursting into bloom of flowers and trees, came the broadcast from Salt Lake City of the two-day General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is always on the first weekend nearest to the 6th of April, when the church was first organized in 1830. This year, as happens occasionally, General Conference was preceded by our own Stake Conference, and was followed by our Ward Conference, and then Easter Sunday was the very next week. So, we were fed spiritually at the beginning of April in 2022.  Something that came as a bit of a surprise to everyone here in Grants Pass, and even to the local weather forecasters, I think, was a storm with rain that turned into SNOW! It was quite unexpected, and it continued on and off throughout the day, but of course the snow didn’t stay. It was, however, very new for us to have a snowstorm in April! One thing I learned in April was getting used to...