David Journal

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  • Tired

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    Laura seems to be doing better today. She didn’t feel good at first and when I invited her to go with me to get donuts she declined but she called me back after concluding that the only reason she declined was that she was depressed. After our little trip she seemed better. After breakfast I…

  • Making a change

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    Laura has realized that “waiting for this to pass” (“this” being whatever temporary thing is interfering with what she would like to do) is not a functional way to approach life or healing. She has realized that there is always some “this” waiting to take our attention. She’s now talking about taking a simple, flexible…

  • Night games

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    Susie has a tight day with Isaac. It came to the point that he opened the garage and took a hammer which he then used to hit her car tires. No damage fine but that boy needs to learn​ to control himself. Tonight marked the beginning of weekly night games for the Jacobson’s. It was…

  • Time to prepare

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    I never chartered before that Anna and his people didn’t simply run from the army of Noah, they had enough warning to prepare to leave by gathering their belongings.

  • Withdrawing

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    I’m trying to decide how much to withdraw and allow the family to drown without me. Everybody thinks of their own needs and nothing I say or do cuts through that. Savannah and Mariah understand the concept of family intellectually but they don’t believe that there is any possibility of them benefiting from doing what…

  • More car trouble

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    When Laura decided to go with the kids​ to the museum she soon saw that she was not mentally up to the task. She also soon discovered that the Outback was showing warning lights so that she had to question whether it would be reliable to drive to Provo and back. That gave her​ an…

  • Good endings

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    Conference weekend started out rough for me. Today started out rough when I found that Alyssa hadn’t done the dishes last night even though I reminded her to do them. Thankfully by the end if conference we had achieved a stretch of peace. I told the kids that during each hymn of the season, anyone…

  • Gospel in action

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    Brigham Young told the saints at conference when he heard about the Willie and Martin handcart companies that they would never save one soul unless the practiced what he was about to preach. His sermon was to rescue those saints. That came to mind this morning when I woke up to find a text from…

  • Inaugural Dinner Party

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    I managed to help Alyssa with her math this morning even though we had to take her in to school one period late. Hopefully she felt good about her test because of it. The kids and I did shopping during the day and then I took Alyssa to get braces on her teeth in the…

  • Lift

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    I went to dinner with Michelle Wood tonight. She wanted to learn my perspective on our situation to better understand how she might help and to make sure that I knew she was eager to do what she could.  Lately I’ve been thinking about a Mormon Messages video that President Young showed in Elders Quorum…