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4/13/2017 - Section 11:15-30

April 13, 2017 Section 11:15-30 Life Plans, Service, Bloom Where You Are Planted, Priorities, When Life Gets In the Way, Daily Life, I’ve felt myself in an interesting place this last bit of time. I kept thinking that in coming to Bend we were putting our life on ‘hold’ while acknowledging the highest priority of our family: that of helping Alex in her fight with stomach cancer. We came here with everything we would need for our missions, and planned to process mission papers from here in Bend when Alex no longer had need for our support. I also came with serious projects that I would work on during the times Alex did not need me. But I’m finding that it is impossible to put a life on ‘hold’. Church callings continue to come. We started out talking with our bishop and telling him we would support the ward all we could, but wanted to keep our time available for Alex and the kids. So we had no callings for 6 weeks, except for Bob’s home teaching assignments. Then a temporary sta...