Help, I’ve Become a Pansy

This week we received news that my wife’s grandfather passed away. Immediately we started making plans for making the trip from College Station to Amarillo. I wasn’t able to take off the time from school for the funeral so I sent my wife and 4 mo. old son on a plane by themselves. My wife is going to stay in Amarillo for the next two weeks because we have a family reunion up there and it wouldn’t make sense for her to come back home and then go right back up there again. Anyway, as I returned from seeing them off at the airport this morning, I just started crying. Obviously, I will miss them very much, but I really can’t help wondering just how much Jami and Joseph mean to me and how much I love them. Starting a family has really given me a new appreiciation for the temple and those ordinances that allow us to be together forever. It has strengthed my testimony of the plan of salvation.

On a side note – Remember Elder Bednar’s talk in general conference about the tender mercies of the Lord? My wife and I were both very worried about her traveling alone with the baby. It was his first trip and the potential for the trip to be awful was very high. As we were sitting in the airport, we saw one of our friends from the ward show up that was on the same flight. He came over and sat with us and helped my wife through security and on the plane ride. I just can’t help but think about the tender mercies of the Lord for us on this day.