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"And the servant of the Lord must . . . be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient" 2 Timothy 2:24

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We will open this post with a bit of humor. One of our office missionaries has this quote on her desk.  "Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes, that would be boring.                                Spend 30 seconds in my head, that'll freak you right out." We simply have to laugh and nod our heads - it seems particularly fitting to be applied to mission leaders! We love this work and this chapter and would have it no other way. Here is a little bit about some of the things that keep us busy here on the mission. Each week we have two zoom devotionals with all our missionaries. The Zone Leaders rotate the responsibility of leading the Devotional and sharing messages and President and I always have something to add at the end. Recently we focused on the Christlike attribute of charity - one element of this being patience. After all "charity suffereth long . . . and is not easily provoked."    ...