Supposed blessings

I was at a baby shower yesterday and my mom was taking to my aunt because my uncle just got called to be the bishop. My mom told my aunt that she couldn’t wait to see all of the blessings that were going to come to her family.

Meanwhile, 5.5 years ago my father in law got called to be the bishop. About a month into his service, my mother in law got diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer and passed away this last August. My father in law has been going through the hardest period of his life and is in a deep depression as would be expected.

How can anyone still believe that bishops and bishops families actually get special blessings? They’re just as vulnerable to life as the rest of us. I have to roll my eyes when I hear something like this, but my family is all TBM so of course they agreed with my mom. 🙄