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The bishop walked to his truck, his step a little less springy than it had been a few minutes before. "Somehow," he muttered, "that didn't go as well as I had hoped." He hit his steering wheel a resounding thump.
"Lord, help me to be patient," he prayed. "I'm not nearly as good at this as I thought I was."
Jim Shepherd is as surprised as anyone by the call to serve as bishop of the newly formed Fairhaven Ward. He's somehow pictured bishops
...24) Emily
Henry Bennion Eyring was born on May 31, 1933, in Princeton, New Jersey, bearing the first name of his father, who was fast building a reputation as a brilliant scientist, and the family name of his mother, who didn't care for the name "Henry" and insisted that he be called Hal.
In 1970, Hal received an impression to make a daily record of his activities. Years of journals form the backbone of this personal biography, a candid look at his walk
...26) Being enough
What you have to give is enough — if you give it with all your heart.
Is there ever enough time, enough money, enough power within us to do all that our lives seem to require of us? Most of us feel our inadequacies keenly, and the fear of failure can keep us from reaching out and offering what little we do have. Citing the New Testament story of the widow who cast her two mites into the temple treasury, Sister Chieko N. Okazaki demonstrates
...The folks in Fairhaven find themselves, along with the rest of the country, reeling in the aftermath of the September eleventh attacks. In spite of the impact on their hearts, most summon the courage to carry on with their lives.
Bishop Jim Shepherd does his best to keep things on an even keel as he ministers to the varying needs of his ward members and tries to bring in from the fringes of Church activity a number of sheep who have wandered.
But
...32) Letters
This delightful sampling of letters by Marjorie Pay Hinckley spans nearly 50 years of letter-writing to her beloved family. The book is divided into six sections, which serve to group the correspondence into different stages of Sister Hinckley's life: Letters from a Young Wife and Mother, Letters to a Teenage Daughter, Letters from a Sister, Letters to a Growing Family, Letters from a World traveler, and Letters to Grandchildren. Each section provides
...33) A thorny path
A nasty neighbor who is sponsoring what could be an ugly anti-Mormon rally is just one of the concerns weighing on Bishop Jim Shepherd's mind. In his fourth year of service as bishop of the tiny Fairhaven Ward, he's also dealing with the death of one of his most faithful members and a variety of martial and emotional problems—some humorous, some dire—among the members of his flock. But there is also the joy of his wife, Tricia's pregnancy
...35) The Moroni code
When FBI agent David Hunter is assigned to decipher the mysterious code on a letter from Joseph Smith, everything goes wrong. The code is much harder to break than he'd imagined, complicated by the fact that someone has been stealing documents from the Church's Historical Department. And always in the back of his mind is his overwhelming need to translate an even stranger document: his grandfather's authentic copy of characters from the golden
...Will the real Watts family please stand up? Actually, they're both real. You're likeliest to catch Family One for about three hours on Sunday or on a few other special occasions. The rest of the time, look for Family Two. We're happy either way. Nothing you can read could ever prepare you for the feelings, the challenges, and the excitements of having children. But the strategies presented in the delightful book can help you cope when you're up
...For thirty years as a marriage and family therapist, Dr. Wendy Watson Nelson worked with people who struggle with relationship problems—spouses who feel misunderstood and neglected; parents and children who find themselves at odds with each other; in-laws who clash; siblings who quarrel; neighbors who disagree; and associates in Church callings and in the workplace who don't work well together.
In Rock Solid Relationships, Dr. Nelson
...Quantum computing is the atomic bomb of global information warfare. Its key is this man-made diamond, Larry said, "and we can't just steal it. So we need to hack into the network to get the diamond's code." Larry paused, letting Tanner process what he had been told. "That's why you're here." Tanner Zane is a Mormon with a secret criminal past. Nobody suspects that before his religious conversion he had hacked into thousands of computer networks
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