{"id":2392,"date":"2010-08-02T06:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T13:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2010-08-02T06:55:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T13:55:59","slug":"district-president-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/08\/02\/district-president-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"District president in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Alone in a closet-sized room in Iraq, U.S. Army Col. Guy Hollingsworth dropped to his knees and cried.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation via Skype with Elder Paul Piper and Elder Bruce Porter of the first Quorum of the Seventy, he had been called to be the district president of what would become the Baghdad Iraq Military District.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just dropped to my knees and started crying for a couple of reasons,&#8221; Hollingsworth said. &#8220;I felt completely inadequate. 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