How I Lead as Area Mission Medical Advisor | An Interview with Bryan Murray

Bryan Murray was born and raised in Long Beach, California, served
in the Japan Sendai mission, and met his future wife, Kristine
Clawson, while attending Brigham Young University when they went
skiing together with their home evening group. Bryan attended
medical school at the University of Kentucky then completed an
internal medicine residency with the UCSF San Joaquin Valley
Program. He worked with a small group practice in Payson, Utah,
before moving the family to Anacortes, Washington, where he joined
a small internal medicine group and helped start a hospitalist
program at Island Hospital in Anacortes. Bryan has served in five
bishoprics and as bishop of the Anacortes Ward. He retired from
medicine in February 2022 and two short months later he and
Kristine began a full-time mission as Area Medical Advisor to the
North America Northeast Area. They also filled a mission assignment
as support to a Young Single Adult branch in the Hingham,
Massachusetts Stake. Bryan currently serves as the ward music
chairman and Kristine serves as the Relief Society president in the
newly-created Fidalgo Island Ward in Anacortes. Bryan and Kristine
enjoy spending time with their six children, five in-laws, and 15
grandchildren. As a family they enjoy skiing, kayaking, biking,
hiking, sailing, and camping. Links Why Your Ward Needs a Podcast
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access to the Core Leader Library Highlights 3:10 Kurt introduces
the guest, Bryan Murray. He served as Area Medical Missionary
Advisor in Boston, Massachusetts. 5:30 Bryan explains his mission
as Area Medical Advisor and some of his responsibilities. 7:40 What
led up to Bryan serving a mission with his wife. 11:00 Bryan shares
a behind-the-scenes view of what it's like to be a medical advisor
for missionaries. What kinds of issues he dealt with. 15:15 When
does a missionary need to go home? Can they stay if they have a
medical problem? 16:15 Who helps with the missionaries’ mental
health? 18:30 A service mission is great for missionaries that are
struggling with mental health or medical problems. 19:40 Advice to
bishops and stake presidents sending out missionaries that have
medical issues. Helping them prepare missionaries for the field.
21:40 Some of Bryan’s wife responsibilities. They had an area
assignment as medical advisors but they also had a mission
assignment in the Boston mission in a Young Single Adult ward.
23:30 Bryan encourages other medical professionals to do a medical
mission. You will have a lot of other experiences beyond medical.
25:30 What Bryan is doing now 26:30 Bryan has created a podcast for
his ward. Even though we go to church with each other we really
don’t know each other. A ward podcast can help ward members share
their lives and stories. 31:00 How leading has brought Bryan to
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