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Who did you bring with you?

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"Best Friends"   by  Max Ruckman  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 About two years ago, I assisted our local missionaries with teaching and befriending the husband of one of our ward’s devoted sisters. I will call him Jim. Jim and I have become extremely close. Due to an age difference, it is unlikely we would have become friends in any other way. He has progressed through the lessons on to baptism and is now sealed to his wife.  It has been my pleasure to become acquainted with and love this brother. Each week I found it strange that he had to attend with the high priests while I attended with the elders.  I would always tell myself it was great that he was associating with others, which was true, but something that I was used to doing all my life now seemed odd. I guess the idea of two separate groups, supposedly working toward the same goal, started to feel unproductive. As you are probably aware, there have been quite a few changes to how we do things in The Chu