It was a late start for our Family Home Evening, well the lesson part anyways. We had an activity a bit earlier. It was an obstacle course in the backyard created by Andy. We all ran it twice but I had to run back to work and the boys came with me. When we got home we carried on with the fhe. We had a song and were about to pray when there was a knock at the door. Jack jumped up to get it and there stood Patrick.
Patrick is an older gentleman who lives across the street. He has asbergers and is a little quirky but that is okay with us. Because of Jack we have a little understanding of autism and being a little quirky. I think I wrote about Patrick back in June when we went up and hiked the Blowhard Trail. He is extremely smart as one might expect.
Well Patrick is suffering a bit right now. His son just moved up to Salt Lake and that has left him with a bit of a void. To make matters worse his exwife told him she is moving back to Cedar. This is what has Patrick on edge and has his mind way over stimulated.
So anyway, we had Patrick join us for our fhe lesson. Jack read his report on Oscar Fontano and he did a great job. There are a couple errors in the report that we need to fix but otherwise it gives a nice little account of Oscar's life. I'll post it on here in the next few days. We went on to read scriptures and have our night prayer and then I got the boys in bed while Patrick waited. I went down and talked with him for awhile, well I mostly just listened. The same thing happens with Jack when his mind is over stimulated. At a quarter to 12 Patrick headed home feeling better. Hopefully we were some sort of help there.
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