"While we see this quality in the quiet but spiritually luxuriant lives of the genuine, spiritual heroes and heroines about us, the lack of it keeps so many of us straggling in the foothills and off the peaks in the adventure of full discipleship. I refer to our hesitancy and our holding back in submitting fully to the Lord and His purposes for us.
...A superficial view of this life, therefore, will not do, lest we mistakenly speak of this mortal experience only as coming here to get a body, as if we were merely picking up a suit at the cleaners. Or, lest we casually recite how we have come here to be proved, as if a few brisk push-ups and deep knee bends would do.
....Sometimes, our holding back occurs because we lack faith or we are too entangled with the cares of the world. Other times, there is in us an understandable tremulousness which slows our yielding, because we sense what further yielding might bring.
....Yet we need to break free of our old selves—the provincial, constraining, and complaining selves—and become susceptible to the shaping of the Lord. But the old self goes neither gladly nor quickly. Even so, this subjection to God is really emancipation.
...The wondrous and glorious Atonement was the central act in all of human history. It was the hinge on which all else that finally matters turned. But it turned upon Jesus’ spiritual submissiveness! May we now, in our time and turn, be “willing to submit” (Mosiah 3:19),
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We had to say Goodbye to our friends the Cowans the week the kids were off school in October. Grandpa Great left on Thursday. The Cowans left Friday morning Oct. 23rd. It was a sad day.
We have missed them and will miss them. It was really a blessing to have them in our lives here. Ever since we started to plan living here we knew about "the other KPMG mormon family" that was already here and had come just 6 months before us and who happened to have a boy the same age as ours and a girl the same age as ours! (and Jennie and I had actually been in the same freshman dorm building and ward and so knew of each other.)


Since that day we have spent much time together, been through difficult and happy times together, had a third baby a couple of months apart, and just shared our lives here. They were like a family away from family. The night before we left we went to the airport to see them where they were checking in their luggage. As we were leaving, Cado started crying and saying, "I'll miss them so much!" Drew asked Cado why he was said, and he said, "Because I don't want you to go."
Fortunately they're in Utah where it won't be too difficult to visit them whenever we're there. Which we will be soon! Today Paisley saw a picture of Avery on the computer and she said, "I very like Avery much...she likes me best too, and that's the best." I agree, it is the best when you have friends that you love and that you know love you back. We love you Guys!





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