Nancy, Russ and Becca visited Gordon after the funeral of Paul de Payne, the husband of Marion's cousin Arlene Godfrey Payne. Gordon was having a good day and sat on the couch in the big room visiting with them for half an hour. He was awake and lucid with only occasionaly asking who Russ was. It is always intertaining to watch him interact with the women who come in the big room and most of the time he just chuckles at their antics. One woman thought Russ and Becca were from a town near Vernal and asked about all the people she used to know. Gordon is good to answer any questions you ask him but doesn't offer many comments to start conversations. He does love small children and adores when people bring babies for him to hold. He like to be sung to and when Kaisa ( his great grand-daughter) played the piano he commented that he had died and gone to heaven.

Becca visited Gordon on Thursday and he would not get out of bed to even eat lunch. He did enjoy the accordian player that was there for half an hour and kept commenting on how nice the organ sounded. He did keep asking the ladies to not sing so he could hear the organ better but they ignored him and just kept singing their own song and their own words. She stayed for an hour and sang to him and he seemed to enjoy that. He said he goes to the Temple once a week and that it is his goal to feel better so he will be able to go twice a week. As long as he is going is his mind I think it is a lovely place to be. He is getting weaker and weaker and this day Becca was Marion.