Spring Semester

Christmas break was not long enough but it was nice to be home after celebrating the new year. We started off the new semester like a rocket launch into new material. The first day we had 5 straight hours of lecture, and a schedule that has not let up since. Our test schedule is crazy and stressful, but I often step back and look at just how awesome the material is I am learning. What a blessing I have to be here, to have the family that I have, to have the support of the friends around me who are in the same boat, and share my worries.

I am continually reminded of how perfect this place is for me and my family. DMU felt like the right decision from the beginning and I realize more each day just how perfect it is for my family. We have had so many opportunities here. Cambria has the best support system I could have ever asked for. That was one of my major factors in deciding on a medical school. I can struggle through any difficulty at any school regardless of the quality of the school, but to arrive here and see that the quality of both the family support and that of the school far exceeded my expectations had been a testimony to me of the Lord's plan for me and my family.

Not only do we receive so much, but we also have the opportunity to serve often. There are people around us who need lifting up, and while I feel myself not in a place to be uplifting to others due to my own time constraints and trying to juggle my schedule, I am consistently placed in the path of others to help them in more ways that I thought possible to me.

Cambria and the kids left to Utah for her maternal Grandmother's funeral and to help around the house after her mother's GI surgery tomorrow. I sat by myself in church today, looking at the families and fathers playing with their children on their laps, and had the deepest desire to hold my children again. They have only been gone a few short days and will be gone another week.