I Dare You To Eat It

Every month my visiting teaching companion, Angela, and I try to visit Susan. We’re all busy gals and it doesn’t always work, but I’m pretty sure that Susan knows we care, because we show up on her door step, on a regular basis. Sometimes we bring a little lesson or gospel message to share and sometimes we just chat. We’re really good at that. I hope Susan can feel our admiration, respect, and friendship. She’s an amazing woman.

Almost 20 years ago, Susan’s son Tim suffered a terrible spinal column injury when he dove off the back of a boat at Lake Powell. Tim is doing well, but his life is forever changed in a big way, and so is Susan’s. In addition to being a wife, mother, and grandmother, today she owns a tennis clothing business at a pro shop, coaches the girl’s tennis team at the local Catholic high school, AND dedicates hundreds of hours to her volunteer work at local hospitals. She’s amazing and I’m lucky to know her.

With all Susan has going, it was way beyond the call of duty when she agreed to assist my daughter with one of her projects for school. Rosie is applying to the broadcast journalism program at BYU and needed to produce a little news spot. I was with Mike on a business trip in San Diego when the filming was done but Rosie told me that Susan was friendly, patient, enthusiastic, and totally willing to help. That’s Susan, in a nut shell.

And this is what I really like about visiting teaching. It’s an organized system for encouraging women to connect with each other. It helps us reach out, expand our circle of friends, and build bridges of love and support, three women at at time.

This time Susan blessed my life. I hope it will be my turn to do something for her, next.

Here’s the YouTube link for ”Rosemary Card and Dr. Dog” if you would like to see what I’m talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdpJjzzi6Lg

Tags: give a rip, taking time to be friends, visiting teaching

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