LIFE!

 Yesterday was a difficult day for me in a couple of ways:

1.  At the temple, a friend from the ward told me that he and his wife were struggling in their lives and marriage. I had not expected that admission.  He asked me to stand in the prayer circle with him.  (Brother Ortiz)

2.  At the temple, I saw a friend from Rexburg, and asked where his wife was.  He whispered that she had died.  I didn't see him again, so I came home and looked up her obituary.  She was only one year older than I and it is just so unsettling to see that.  (Elaine Agren Porter)

3.  When I returned home, I received an email from a relative telling me about the death of a cousin's daughter who had died of kidney failure.  (Carma Gee Sorensen)

4.  As Allen and I were in bed reading our scriptures, he received an email telling about the death of a man we had met on our first family history mission.  We had recently reconnected through the Sons of the Utah Pioneers.  (Max Turpin)

But, earlier, I had learned of the death of a man from Rexburg.  I had just listened on YouTube to a talk he gave many years ago, and wanted to find him to tell him what a great talk it was and that it had impacted me.  (Blaine Yorgason)

Life is so up and down.  Life is a challenge.  Life is HARD.  I just need to have faith that all the things we are taught about the afterlife are true.