Last week, I was released from the Bishopric in our local congregation. I've been in the Bishopric 5 of the last six years, it's a bit of a time commitment serving, even as a counselor to the Bishop.
In addition to that, 2016 was an interesting year for health issues:
- In January, I had surgery to remove a bone spur from my ankle joint. My ankle is doing well these days, but there was some time this time last year on crutches.
- Mid year, I was having lower back pain. I went down to Moab for a few days, and started having really bad sciatica pain, to the point that by day three I couldn't sleep. It turned out that I had a compressed disk that was pinching the nerve. I took a cortizone shot in my back, which helped, and did a couple of months of physical therapy, my back is still sore, but I don't get the pain down my leg anymore.
- At the beginning of December, I had a stroke. (surprise!) I'm still kind of recovering from that.
I'm sure 2017 will be better. That's not really the reason I am checking in here. I can't guarantee that I will post here all that often, I can try. Right now, I get home from work and some days I am just wiped out and need to take it easy. (I don't recommend a stroke to anyone.) Having been released from the Bishopric, I have been looking over some of the talks that I have given in church over the past few years, there were quite a few. I figured at the very least, I could post them here on Sundays for a while.
First up - a talk I gave three weeks ago, where I in part talk about having the stroke.
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