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23 March 2012


Lyman's heart doctor gave Lyman the okay to go on our mission, so it is official now that we can resume our call to leave on our mission to the Cebu City Philippines Temple on April 30.  We received our call the day after we got Lyman home from the hospital after having 2 stents put in his heart, paracarditis, and kidney failure.  But the Lord has blessed him to where his kidney function is back and his heart is doing well, so we're back on schedule.  It was touch and go for a while.  So we are excited and grateful.
We enter the MTC in Provo on April 30th, spend two weeks training for temple work, and fly to the Philippines on May 12 via Hong Kong.  We'll be gone 18 months.  We  are ready to go!  Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers in our behalf.
 
Lyman and Linnea

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