We feel so touched as Jared's elementary school is honoring Jared the week after Thanksgiving as they hold a school wide "Jared Vance - Hero Day" in honor of Jared and his superhero status. Every grade level in the school is doing a service project in honor of Jared. What a neat thing to be honored and an even neater thing to honor someone by helping other people. We feel so grateful to have such amazing support around us in our community. We especially thank Mrs. Tonge and her class who started it all.
Here is a picture of our family at Jared's Make A Wish Celebration. Jared has had a wonderful time putting together his legos . . . all of his lego creations have completely filled the donated bookcase that Make A Wish gave us and he still has about 10 boxes left!
Jared had a few really great days following his Make A Wish night, but has sort of been going a bit down hill since. There is no doubt that he still has some good moments of Legos and Indiana Jones games, but he just seems to struggle for a good portion of the day. That moment of struggle seems to be lingering a bit more throughout the day. He has recently acquired a magic set and has proudly mastered a few of the tricks. He still shows a great love for life while he is up and feeling well. He fights hard and will always retain a super hero status in our family.
We hope to have a wonderful Thanksgiving week with a lot of family and cousins for Jared to be with. Hopefully he will have more ups than downs. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Jared, his parents and siblings are all super-heros in my book! When you consider all the interest, love, kindness, goodness and sincere prayers which Jared's journey has generated and produced it is profound. What a spiritual powerhouse this is and it exceeds most of us in goodness and spiritual accomplishments in spite of many years here upon the earth.
ReplyDeleteThere are many who have been keenly motivated by Jared's story and experiences. Some known, some not. Consider your community, the nurses, the doctors and other medical personnel, Jared's extended family & friends, school classmates, ward family, and many others who have in some manner heard about Jared and his situation. The have become better persons and this makes one stand in awe of Jared and those who love him. Many have been influenced forever and others perhaps, only for a fleeting moment --- some on this side of the veil, and with out doubt, on the other side of the veil as well.
John Taylor spoke about heavenly beings being organized among those who have been resurected, spirits awaiting resurrection as well as spirits yet unborn. Beyond the veil,I believe souls are organizing for Jared and many have already benefited by Jared & his family's example.
I KNOW MY LARGE FAMILY AND I HAVE A KEEN LOVE FOR ALL OF YOU. WE ARE BLESSED AND BETTER PEOPLE BECAUSE OF YOU...... WE PRAYFULLY CONSIDER YOUR SITUATIONS. WE THANK YOU! GOD BLESS YOU.
THANK YOU JARED, JAMIE, ANDREW AND ALL THE VANCE AND BECK FAMILY MEMBERS. YOU ARE ALL SUPER HEROS IN OUR VIEW.
God bless you all. I pray gratitude, love and divine consolation will be upon you all this season,always and forever........... Love, Uncle Sherm & family.
Andrew and Jaime,
ReplyDeleteYou all look so great and we miss you so much!! I wish we could be there to help celebrate Jared Vance week!! YOu are in our prayers always and we think of you often!! Give our love to jared and we send it to you both too. And I ditto what the previous post said, " you ARE all super heros", that's for sure!!! We are well and hope you make lots of great memories this very thankful time of the year! Happy Thanksgiving Vance's, the Snow's love you guys so very much!
Love,
Kris and Mike
Jared; We just wanted to let you know how much we miss having you in Primary; but as we can see you are a busy young man.
ReplyDeleteWe know now that being a Super Hero takes alot of time!
Not to mention building all of your Lego creations.
We hope to see some of your creations soon.
Just know that we love you; and are so proud of you.
It is kind of fun to tell others that we have a Super Hero in our Primary.
We look forward to preparing you our famous Spaghetti Dinner fit for a Hero. Our Hero.
Once again we love you and will visit with you soon. The Primary
You are a real super hero, Jared. Thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteWe are thinking of you and your family.
ReplyDeleteSweet Jaime, you are amazing. Thank you for your goodness, your attitude, your charity, your strength. Your names were put in the St. Louis Temple on Saturday and I hope that the extra prayers will add comfort as your family celebrates Jareds life on earth, as you begin this new phase of your mortal life and as Jared begins his everlasting life with Father in Heaven. I love you dearly. Jennie Gardner Savage
ReplyDeletewe don't know you. but i wanted you to know that you and your little boy have been included in all of our family prayers for months now. we cried today when we learned of jared's passing. during family home evening we talked of prayer and how sometimes things don't turn out the way we hope. we have felt such love for your family! we will continue to pray that you can find comfort somehow. what an amazing little boy-and what amazing people you must be.
ReplyDeleteI was very sorry to read about Jared's passing. A very difficult time for your family that I hope is eased by the love of friends and family. It's clear that he touched many lives in his short time with you.
ReplyDeleteDear Jamie and Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Jared was sick until a couple of days ago... I found his blog this morning and have been reading through it just sobbing. What a brave and amazing boy Jared was. I am so sorry to hear of his passing. My heart is aching for you both during this time, and our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Love, Craig and Janalyn Jones