John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.”
One of the greatest ways that Heavenly Father shows that He
loves us, is that He gave us the gift of Jesus Christ.
Other ways I feel God’s love are when I feel the Spirit by
helping others.
Yesterday, my mom and brother and sister and I went to
Walmart. When we were driving away we
saw a man on the corner with a sign that said his family was having a hard
time. I thought about when my dad didn’t
have a job recently. We all wanted to
help the man. We drove the car around
again, I opened my window and gave the man a $5 bill. He said, “Thank you young man.” “And I said good luck to you.” His smile made me feel so good!
When I got baptized just over a month ago, one of the promises
I made was that I would help people that needed help. I know that if Jesus Christ saw that man, He
would help him. I was able to keep a
baptism covenant yesterday and follow Jesus Christ by helping that man a little
bit.
One way we show our love to Heavenly Father and Jesus is by
helping our brothers and sisters.
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Because we have such a terrible internet connection here, our printer takes like an hour to actually complete a print job. So, even though we prayed that it would print, it didn't. So I took the lap top with us to the primary room and explained that Eric might need to use the laptop but that I was teaching a lesson in the Family History Room. Ann Ashton, the Primary President, had a brilliant idea that Elaine, the secretary snap a picture of Eric's talk on my screen and she enlarged it so he could read it right from her phone. Yeah!! Elaine and Sister Gourley, counselor in the primary presidency, said that Eric did very well on his talk. They both said that he reads so well and actually adds inflection and feeling. Great job Eric!
Earlier this year Scott and I were called to be Family History Consultants. This has been a hard calling for me only because I have not put much effort into it because I don't really know anything about family history. During the Sunday School hour I have been going to the family history center and working on my family tree in ancestry. Only through that experience am I learning a little bit about how to do family history. I quickly realized that doing and being involved with family history is a quest that is going to take years of doing it to learn. Brother See approached me last month about teaching one of the classes in February. He wanted to start a course that would be offered for a couple months to help people learn about doing their family history. Most of the consultants have knowledge and skills with researching or completing family history on line and other ways. But I don't. I offered that I teach on the subject of how to get children and teens involved in family history. I have been thinking of that a lot. So I talked about journal writing, pictures, getting stories from family members, interviewing them and other ways. I talked for a lot longer than I anticipated as I shared thoughts from a talk by Elder Eyring, one from President Kimball, and examples from the scriptures. It just so happens that our YW activity with the Laurels this week will be about bringing a story to put into our family history. We will share our stories and then help them get them into their family tree pages.
I ended that lesson about 10 minutes to the hour and then came home to check on Rubie. I went back to the church for YW. I was teaching the Laurels class about the role of death in the plan of salvation. The Lord was really present in my life to make sure today went well. It just so happened that I had prepared the bulk of the lesson to be group work. I divided the class into 3 groups. Each group had a question to answer with a series of scriptures and quotes to discuss. I got them started and then came home again to check on Rubie. She was doing fine and even though I gave her her homework to complete she drew me a picture instead. (I'm still trying to get her to do her homework.) I went back to the Laurel class and we discussed the questions, I showed a video, and then wrapped it up. It all went smoothly because I had been preparing over the last few weeks. I had showered and done my hair last night because I went on a date with Scott for drill. And I prayed that the morning would go well. Thank you Heavenly Father for helping us with all those things this morning. Rubie is feeling so much better that she is being such a tease to her brothers and has been out on the tramp jumping.
Scott's unit had a date night last night or an activity put on by the FRG. We met at the officers club on Camp Williams and they had dinner from Magelby's. Then they had some people there with country music and they instructed us on some line dancing and country swing. We had pictures taken on hay bales and it was nice. We didn't stay too long. Scott wanted to go see a movie.
This past Monday was President's Day. The kids didn't have school. Scott needed to work from home. So after exercising and getting breakfast for everyone. The kids and I went to Target to get a baby gift for the Tulett's newest baby, Ezra. Then we went and visited them and held the baby and the kids played for a bit. Then we went to lunch at McDonald's. Sam was missing his nap but by this time it was like 3 in the afternoon. We came home for a few minutes and Scott still needed to work. We decided to go to Kangaroo Zoo. We invited Brock and I took the kids for more playing. Of course they loved it and by 6:30 I was making them be done. We got some pizza and took it home for dinner and a family home evening lesson.
Tuesday we had our first Blue and Gold Banquet. It is the one pack meeting of the year that is just for the parents and the scouts. Eric was awarded his Bobcat. He also got to be the caller for the flag ceremony. I'm so proud of him and how well he is doing in his scouts. He and Scott have been working on it every Sunday. The theme of the night was Everything is Awesome. There were Lego stuff everywhere. Dinner was waffles (because they look like legos). The butter and the ice-cubes were a Lego guy. Each boy got a bag of Lego candy and a neckerchief slide that is a Lego guy. There were Legos on the table to play with. There was a picture frame with Legos and the scout values on them. The napkin, plates, and utensil holders were made with Legos. The scout leaders are pretty amazing and go creative and go to a lot of work for these events.
Wednesday I attended YW and our activity was to play Hungry, Hungry, Hippo, but not the board game. We went to an elementary school and we divided into 4 teams. Each team had a long board or skate board with a rope tied to it, and a laundry basket. The middle of the room was filled with balloons. One person laid face down on the skate board, held onto the basket. We pushed them out, and she was to grab as many balloons as she could in the basket. Then we pulled her back. None of the leaders were playing. But there was one team of all beehives and they were getting creamed by the other teams so I joined their team to help even it out a little. It was super fun.
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