The Bernhisel annual Christmas MissiveMerry Christmasand a Cool Yule to all of our friends, your outstanding kids, superb grandkids and assortments of animal life that we hear about in your Christmas Letters!
Once again, we are not at present on the south side of the Alafia river in our home in Riverview Florida. Nor are we traveling all over North Carolina watching over missionaries. Interestingly, we are now in Bountiful Utah, up into the mountain snow and on top of the Mount Everest of all driveways in our rental home. I am at the University of Utah seeing infertility and gynecology patients at the University and at its extension in the Farmington Heath Center across from Lagoon park and behind a spiffy new mall- for you Utahans. I also work Tuesday mornings in the Bountiful Temple as an ordinance worker.
Julee is busy being a grandma to 20 superbly outstanding grandkids. It has been quite a year for her. She had a hip replacement in August and had a small isolated spot of breast cancer, removed surgically and treated with radiation therapy. Her outlook is good. She teaches in the Relief Society and hopes to get back soon the the temple as an ordinance worker with me. We have no pets aside from 12 deer who love Julee and our back yard; and my Ford F150 pickup truck-“Freddie the Ford” that gets me up the Everest Drive way in the winter and also to many sites for my skiing, climbing and hiking.
Here’s the line up of kids and grands:
Heidi and Tyler Rex live in beautiful Seneca S.C. and have four wonderful children- Mckenzie (18), Savannah (15), Christian (11), and Jackson (9).
Preston and Karee Bernhisel are in Carrollton, close to Dallas where Preston works.Their exceptional children are Cole (12), Carter 10), Caroline (6) and Cambelle (2)
Brooke and Mike Walden live close to us in Centerville Utah. Their stupendous children are Leila (13), Andee (8), Ethan (4) and Brooklyn (2 in March)
Lyndi and Kevin Ballard and their outstanding children Annie (6) , Rhet (4), Elsie (2) and our newest grandchild-Emerson Tad, born in October, live in Acworth Georgia, close to Atlanta.
Rounding us out is Jenny Leigh and Lance Pendleton and their 4-remarkable, superior, without equal (we save all the remaining adjectives for our youngest) children David (7, almost), Gavin (5), Mille (3) and Maggie (born in May of this year) from Kingswood, outside of Houston Texas.
I love my dear wife and am blessed with my children, their spouses and our 20 grandchildren. I love also the words of Isaiah, immortalized in Handel’s Messiah-
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6)
And the words of a prophecy given before Christ’s birth-And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind…And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy -(by His Atonement for us). (Alma 7:11.12)
We wish and pray for a very Merry Christmas to y’all and your dear families. Love Marc and Julee.
2016 Bernhisel Pics
Freddie the Ford-Purchased our first day in Utah
Skiing with kids & grands
Little Maggie
Lewiston Utah 4th of July
Emerson "Tad" Ballard with sister Elsie, grandchild # 20, born in October
Mountain Biking/ Road biking with kids, grandkids
Work at the University of Utah. Two former NCRM missionaries shadowing (Derrick Graham. Micheal Duplisea) me
Mueller Canyon bike/hike to Elephant RockBreakfast at the Bernhisel Bountiful home-NCRM RMs and daughter and son in law Brooke and Mike Walden
Missionary Reunions for 2016
April NCRM Missionary Reunion-SLC, Utah
NCRM Senior Reunion-August ’16 Mueller Canyon-Bountiful, Utah
NCRM Reunion-September '16, Bountiful Utah
