Angels promised to Julie

Sun Oct 12th Today I had a few visitors and one visit was from the Deaf Branch President (Jensen) and our great home teacher (Jimmy Harris). It was great to have them come over, but even more important was the fact that they went to visit Julie and Katie after my visit and while they were there visiting Julie, they asked her if she wanted a blessing. Everyone focuses on me and making sure that my needs are accounted for, but Press. Jensen and Bishop Hurst being the good leaders that they are were one of the few priesthood leaders that realized just how difficult this is for the support people (and in this case the wife, nurse, and total care-giver). All of this is on top of the fact that she has to address all the new financial responsibilities and costs associated with my drugs and other new needs from my hospital visits, while still keeping up with her other motherly responsibilities. With a deaf child, there are additional responsibilities for her care. Then there is the laundry, house cleaning and making sure the kids do their homework, get to play practices, turn in all their assignments etc. This is more than anyone should be expected to have to deal with ever, let alone all at the same time as a needy hospital patient trying to come home dependant on her (more so than my) ability to handle it.
In his blessing for Julie, President Jensen told her that there were “angels on this side and the other side of the veil that were waiting to help us push through our times of trials and we needed to ask for their assistance.” This really struck Julie and she had a picture of a painting come into her mind and we eventually would adopt this as our main form of support and encouragement through this whole thing. It is the painting by (???) of the saints pulling handcarts in the winter blizzard of Wyoming and there are several angels helping the pioneers pull their handcarts as they look like they just can’t go on anymore. Julie told me about this when she came to the hospital and it was quite a beautiful and inspirational thing for us both.