Yep

We are going home tomorrow.  We get to spend the night and be watched over.  Erik is doing well.  Having soup, milkshakes and smoothies.  He is talking fine and has been up to walk around a few times.  His chin and jaw hurts... but nothing out of what pain meds can't handle.

I have had plenty of time to read today.  As I poured over the January Ensign feeling the peace of its messages... this paragraph touched me most today:

Why Did This Happen to Me?

Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Presidency of the Seventy answered this question in his April 2012 general conference talk, “Special Lessons”:

“This life is training for eternal exaltation, and that process means tests and trials. It has always been so, and no one is spared.

“Trusting in God’s will is central to our mortality. With faith in Him, we draw upon the power of Christ’s Atonement at those times when questions abound and answers are few. …

“Though we will face trials, adversities, disabilities, heartaches, and all manner of afflictions, our caring, loving Savior will always be there for us. He has promised:

“‘I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. …

“‘My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid’ (John 14:18, 27).”

 

Erik is doing well.  He is being watched over, not just by a great team of knowledgeable doctors and nurses, but by our Heavenly Father... and probably our loved ones that are beyond the veil.  We do wait for pathology reports... which will come next week.  Patience on our part.  We continue to pray for Erik's recovery and for good reports.  As we do, we continue on~ doing our part as much as we can, then we are promised that the Savior will help do the rest.

 

For we labor diligently... to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by ^bgrace that we are saved, after all we can ^cdo.  2Nephi 25:23  

 

The grace he is talking about is the atonement.  And the atonement isn't just for sinners.  It's for anyone.... anyone with heavy burdens and trials.  I love this. 

 

Walking through the halls and some of the other areas of the hospital and clinic areas... you see lots of different people with different types of cancer and different trials.  At times I feel badly about Erik's situation.  And then I see someone else... and think... wow, Erik isn't so bad off after all. His face isn't deformed.  He can communicate with speech.  He isn't in a wheelchair.  He doesn't have a port.  He can have visitors.  All his organs are in great working order.  And he still has his great sense of humor that we love.  We have a lot to be thankful for.