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8 September 2013

Hi all you dear people,     Just a note to let you all know that we love you, think of you, and pray for you every day.  Nothing really big this week, Dad and I were offered tickets to the Trace Adkins concert at the State Fair, and it was good, but the best part was the drive down, and getting to visit with Dad. He and I are both so busy with work, etc...that it's a treat to just drive and talk.     Dad had a quick trip to Coeur d'Alene this week for a meeting. 12 hours of driving for 5 minutes of having the floor, but it was important that he was there to represent the Sheriff's point of view, and not let the 911 upgrade plans get side-tracked.     I've been going one afternoon a week to sit with/take care of, a dear friend of mine, Deb Mattingly.  She and I have worked together for many years at the hospital, and her husband, Tom, is a good friend of Dad's; he's the Chief of Police in Ashton. Any...

30 September 2012

  Hi kids,     When I finished the last semester I was really nervous about starting another one with even more credits.  But at the same time I kept having the thought that "I can do it"!  I worried that I wouldn't have time for anything else in my life...family, friends, work; that I wouldn't be able to find the time to do my church calling or do my visiting teaching either. But I felt strongly that if I would put those things first, that everything else would work out.  Then in the first week of my Pathophysiology class, the teacher shared some thoughts on success in school.  He said that if we would always start our day, or even our study session, with prayer and scriptures, this would invite the spirit of the Holy Ghost, who would "teach" us.  He also suggested that we should review "every class, every day," to keep them fresh in our minds.      Then today, in our Fifth Sunday lesson, the Bishop quoted several verses in Alma 32...