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Cover Image: I am the vine and you are the branches
Richard W. Linford
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Ministering Dilemma Chapter 2: Can Everyone Find Happiness ? Chapter 3: It's Fine to Have Problems Chapter 4: Parallel Marriage and Grandeur Peak Chapter 5: Surviving Hard Times Chapter 6: Bad and Good Marriage Advice Chapter 7: What's in a Name? Chapter 9: The Code Word is Lift Chapter 10: Why July? Chapter 11: Who Can Help You Reach your Potential? Chapter 12: Praying with Please and Thank You Chapter 13: My Way or God's Way Chapter 14: Continuing or Beginning a Strong Family Legacy Chapter 15: Miserable or Joyful ? Chapter 16: Getting from Regret to Reconciliation Chapter 17: On Living in Someone Else's Home Chapter 18: RebuildingRelationships Chapter 19: On the Street Where You Live Chapter 20: I Was There and I Was Famous Chapter 21: Dining with Jesus Chapter 22: Feeling Another's Pain Chapter 23: Experiencing Experience s Chapter 24: Feeling Unappreciated and Alone? Chapter 25: In Good and Bad Times Chapter 26: See the Good i...
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Chapter 1: The Ministering Dilemma

              Like many of you, I have been thinking about  ministering . My Relief Society president assigned me a companion and a few sisters to watch over. I am to  minister  to them according to their needs as guided by the spirit—however, whenever, and wherever. As I tried to put this new assignment into practical application, I thought about the geography that is involved. (If you are thinking, “geography? really?,” stay with me.) All ward leaders from Primary president to bishop are limited in their service by ward boundaries. Stake leaders are the same. The stake president has no jurisdiction outside the borders of his stake. Missionaries receive a call to serve in a specific mission and, as assigned by the mission president, have authority to preach and teach in whatever area within the mission he directs. General church leaders have assigned limits. Members of the quorums of the Seventy receive changing local...
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Chapter 4: Parallel Marriage and Grandeur Peak

(This chapter contains good, solid marital advice for emotionally healthy individuals. It is not good advice where physical, verbal, emotional, or sexual abuse is involved. If the abuser is not willing to get help, the advice that follows isn't enough.)             Our back living room window looks at Grandeur Peak , which is east of Salt Lake City, where we have lived for more than forty years. From time to time family members have lamented that Grandeur Peak was not more like Mount Olympus, which is about a mile to the south and grander than Grandeur Peak in every way. Mount Olympus is about eight hundred feet higher, has much more vegetation with thousands of stately pines, and has a noble-looking summit. In comparison, Grandeur Peak is barren, rounded, and plain. However, an imperceptible change has incrementally been occurring, and last fall it became a topic of conversation. For the first time, our family and visitors looked out the window in awe. The...
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