Heather Headed to Kentucky

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Here are a few of my tender mercies for this week.

We are almost home.  We took a quick trip down to Provo to help our Heather and Brandon Pilcher pack up their moving truck.   In the morning, around 6 am, they will start their long drive across the country to their new home in Kentucky and his new job across the Ohio River in Cincinnati.

One tender mercy is all the men that showed up to help us pack things from the basement at Clint and Sherry’s house up the back stairs and into the moving truck.

Brandon had asked about eight friends to come help.  They were his mission companions, their ward home teachers, an old friend from California and a couple friends that Brandon met through his major at BYU.  Clint had put down plastic from the bedroom area in the basement to the exit door in the basement.  Brandon assigned “inside” people, who wore socks and packed boxes first, then the smaller things then the two bikes, to the door of the basement.  Others were assigned “outside”.  They came down the stairs and packed everything up and into the back of the truck, where Brandon was inside, arranging everything.

At the end, they helped Brandon get his motorcycle up in the truck, strapped it down.  They had Nikole and Elizabeth go pick up pizza at Little Caesar’s for all the volunteers afterward.

I felt the Spirit as we all worked together.  I felt grateful that those friends came to help.  It’s a blessing to have good friends like that.  I’m grateful that Clint and Sherry let our family stay overnight Friday, and they let Brandon and Heather store their belongings in a corner of a basement room for a fee, while B&H were staying in our home for three weeks. 

We will miss them so much, but we are very excited for their new adventure.

We were able to see our niece, Kelley, and to see our nephews – Lance and Riley Argyle and Riley’s wife, Bree.

Another tender mercy was being able to see the Provo City Temple in their Open House.  Oh, it is a very, very beautiful temple.  It was special to be there with everyone in our own family, except for Derek – who was leading  a big conference at BYU-I.  We don’t know when we will see Brandon and Heather again.