It was only a two hour drive from Wyoming down to Pocatello Idaho, where we were picking up Del's brother Brian in Blackfoot and then driving down to Pocatello to help pick up, clean up some of their dad's things at Darlene's house. Darlene is suffering from cancer and her days are literally numbered. ALTHOUGH she looked and acted much better than I anticipated from the conversations I had had with Del. He calls her weekly and apparently she has both good and bad weeks/days, but mostly bad lately. The boys did quite a bit of work and then we took Darlene out to lunch before she had an appointment with Hospice, of which they were signing her up to start that day. Darlene has been a pure delight to our Lott family and was perfect for Delbert after his divorce from Shirley. She will truly be missed when she passes from this life.
Before leaving Pocatello, we drove up to see the brand new Pocatello Idaho temple, of which, for 18 years, we paid our tithes and offerings towards. It is beautiful. To think if we had stayed, a temple would be only 5 minutes away from us. But we both enjoyed the beauty of the temple as we left Idaho. We also talked about the inevitability that we had seen Darlene for probably the last time, in this life.
On the drive to Utah, our discussion once again turned to some interesting topics of Del's childhood. He shared some memories and experiences that he has never shared with anyone else - and some tender feelings he had with both his mom and dad at their passing. It was such a tender bonding moment for the both of us. So grateful we had it.
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