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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
how right you are. I know many Mormon men that work in jobs that prevent them from spending anytime with their families. Almost to the point where it prevents them from having time-consuming callings as well.
I'm not sure it should be considered as virtuous as some of us now consider it.
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I'm seeing your point. We try to walk the tightrope on this one. We seem to value and revel in worldly success but still want to emphasize the importance of the family. Generally speaking, these may be mutually exclusive concepts. When living in Tokyo I was amazed at how many members of the English-Speaking Stake's High Council, all of them extremely temporally successful, were in Tokyo alone while their families lived back in the U.S. This had been going on for years. They seemed to have missed the point. I'm sure they would tell a different story.
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