Maddie Morris and Her Parents: From Silly Mustaches to a Teen's Christmas Wish
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🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Maddie Morris has had a brain tumor three times. In the past, friends and family showed their support by posting pictures of themselves on social media sporting fake mustaches. The pictures brought a smile to young Maddie's face while she endured treatment, and they even inspired her parents to write a middle-grade novel about the experience. But as now 19-year-old Maddie prepares to have surgery once again this December, she has a bit of a different wish that she'd love your help with this Christmas.
1:49- No Attempt to Catch an Avocado
6:41- Eight Years Later
8:06- The Red Sea
11:53- When We Don't Get the Miracle We Want
14:35- The Bigger Dream
18:07- A Window and A Mirror
23:10- What Do Trials Do For Us?
26:51- A Farsighted Approach To Challenges
30:33- Fear Holds Us Back From Each Other
32:21- The Power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ
34:44- Just Showing Up
40:31- This Year's Christmas Wish
43:02- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
"I remember just praying over and over, 'This load is getting to me, and I need some help.' And just the reality that that works—that it's not just for the surgery moment, it can be the weeks before where you wake up, and you think you should feel heavy and dreary, but you don't. It feels like somebody else has the load for now." -Chad Morris
Character of Christ by Elder David A. Bednar
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| 0:36.2 | In 2017, Shadow Mountain published a book titled Mustaches for Maddie. |
| 0:42.4 | The book told the story of a 12-year-old girl named Maddie with a quirky sense of humor |
| 0:47.4 | who is diagnosed with a brain tumor. |
| 0:50.0 | To make Maddie smile, friends and family begin sending funny pictures of themselves with |
| 0:54.8 | fake mustaches and soon it spreads to include people Maddie has never met. |
| 1:00.4 | What many readers may not realize is that Maddie was based on the author's daughter, Maddie, |
| 1:06.0 | who really was diagnosed with a brain tumor and who really did think mustaches were hilarious. |
| 1:11.8 | Today, Maddie is 19 years old and unfortunately her brain tumor is back. |
| 1:17.0 | But this time she has a bit of a different request for those that listen to this episode, |
| 1:22.0 | a surefire way to make her smile. |
| 1:25.4 | Maddie Morris just graduated from high school and is hoping to serve a mission for the Church |
| 1:30.2 | of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints soon after her next surgery. |
| 1:34.4 | She loves singing, performing in musicals, reading, cooking, and crocheting cute stuffed |
| 1:39.9 | sea animals. |
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