June 2012


A man in the branch that we helped to get names of his parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles prepared to take to the temple was in the temple when he suffered a seizure.  We were notified that he was in a hospital in Stockholm.  We had been wishing that we could go down to Stockholm to visit him in the hospital and for Dick to give him a blessing, but it seemed impossible.  When ''out of the blue'' we got a call from the mission president saying he wanted us to come to Stockholm to a zone leader's council and would be flying us down on the 3rd of May (our 49th wedding anniversary).  We asked him if we could go to visit Ivar while we were down there and he agreed.  The Lord had opened a way for us.  So, after the meeting, we went to the hospital and Dick and another senior elder administered to him.  This was on Thursday.  He didn't know how long he might be in the hospital.  On Sunday, we were sitting in Sunday School just before Sacrament Meeting was to start, and the door opened and in wheeled Ivar.  We were so surprised.  Come to find out, on Friday they were able to fly him to Skelefteå in an ambulance plane.  He has since been back in the hospital for more tests and for medication.  They are trying to adjust the medication for the seizures and they are still giving him antibiotics for the blood infection.  However,  weekend of May 12 and 13 he attended the district conference down in Umeå both days.  We questioned him about the temple.  He only remembers turning in the papers we had prepared and getting the pink and blue cards.  So, I guess he didn't get the work done.  When he goes on line, it just says, ''In progress'' by the names.  So, now his goal is to get well enough that he can go back and do the work.  We would like to be able to go down to the temple at the same time so we could help him do the work and act as proxies for him to be sealed to his parents.

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