Week 6

This week was more on mastery and loyalty to the Lord and your family. 

I can see how important this is, in my career I have always been in sales and a job that for the most part is done when I get home and I don't usually need to log on at home and do more.  Once in awhile I do but for the most part when I am home I am home.  That includes evenings, and weekends.  However I have a few friends and brother in law who own their own business which is usually a trade, one is a carpenter, a roofer, and one does the interior of cars and boats.  They leave home around 5 or 6am and most of the time are not home until around 7pm.  One friend worked on Christmas morning after the presents were opened.  My sister in law loves going on holiday's because that is the only time she and her kids have her husband to themselves. 

I will say that most of them balance church and the Lord in to their lives really well, however we tease my brother in law that the church is his second wife. 

This problem has not occurred for me.  lately I have had to travel more than I used to but I am home a lot more than most of my friends or other men that I know in the ward. 

I have always wanted to have a business, this course makes it sound like something I should do, however at this stage in my life I don't know that this would happen.

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