Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Thursday, November 3, 2011

"Personal Progress"

Well I decided to complete my personal progress booklet!! You are supposed to generally complete this by 18 years old! Being a convert in the church I did not do young women's back at that age. So here I am now going on 29, married, 3 kids, and finally going to work towards getting my medallion. Hey one of my favorite sayings in life is "Better late than NEVER". I am working on the faith section now. It was required that I write in my journal what qualities are needed to teach your children to have faith and base their decisions on gospel truths. As a woman wife and mother I believe you need have the first most important quality "Unconditional love". This is a big quality in my book because it is a very difficult quality for people to aquire! you need to have faith yourself in order to teach faith to your children. You need to exude understanding of the gospel in order to teach it to your children. Most of all though you need to have the quality of LOVE. You have to love your children so much that you are willing to go to great lengths for them and be the best example to them that you can be. Faith to me is believing in something that we cannot see. It takes alot to put faith into something that we cannot see. I beleive we will be shown great things and be rewarded so to speak by having non wavering faith!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

"I'm Back"

Well I'm back!! Wow the last time I wrote on this was March 5th. I have been a little distracted since then, but never the less I have things to write about. I will start with where I left off, which is how hard my ward was for me. I just now finally a year after being in it have found some good solid ground to stand on. My calling up to this point has been the ward bulletin, which if you ask anybody else is a very big job! Boy they aren't kidding it is a really hard job. I have come to realize though that it is not the job for me, I feel as if I am being under utelized. I am "willing" to do more, now how many members do you have asking for that :) I just want a more involved calling. So the scoop at this point is I have gone and talked with the bishop, in fact just last night. I felt in all fairness to him he needed to know where I was coming from, I mean I can't expect him to read my mind right hmmm or can I :) Anyhow I just decided to spill my guts about how I was feeling with things in the ward. I mean c'mon they don't even do enrichment because apparently nobody shows up. If they would do it I would show up, I really enjoy the outside activities. I know I know how many members say that too, well according to my bishop not many. So I guess where I'm coming from is that I need to dive in head first, because if I don't I can see myself slipping. So instead of allowing myself to I knelt and said a really nice prayer asking for help. For any of you out there that aren't sure if prayer does a darn thing, well I can promise you it does. I knew what I needed to do once I had prayed, and for that I am grateful. So the end result thus far is from what I understood, I will be getting a new calling yessss. I hope it's primary, or young women, something fun :) I know I can do it if they would just give me the chance. Well all until I hear from the bishop about my new calling, or any other word goodnight for now!!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

"A Breakthrough"

I just wanted to thank you all for helping with this transition into my new ward. It is starting to get better short update: I now have met my Home Teacher, my Visiting Teacher called and will be coming next week, and the relief society is going to throw me a baby shower on March 28th. It's like I just kept plugging along and being patient and look what happened. I know that all of your comments have helped me to see something different I thank you all. I think it could be looking alot more up in the ward situation. Now for my last task I wanted to accomplish, I wanted to suggest an activity survey to the relief society president to pass around. The reason I am thinking this is so that I can myself get more involved in enrichment activities, but also get all of the other ladies involved too :) if anyone has any opinions on this or some suggestions for how I should present this please let me know. I just feel like I need to step it up a little, my ward doesn't do normal activities as I'm used to. So any input would be helpful thanks again all talk to you soon :)

"A Breakthrough"

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Temple Questions

Well we went to the Draper Open House last night! To be honest I think I had something else built up in my mind. Not in a bad way I just wasn't sure what to expect, but I will say that it did show me how pretty temples are inside. It also made me realize that they aren't kept from people that don't have a recommend other than it's sacred. Not because weird things go on in there, that is another thing that I realized as well. It was interesting to take my mom, sister, sister-in-law, and my brother to see this with Chris and I. I almost think that they were a little disappointed that it wasn't more fancy etc.. Which I think is funny, because to me that shows that the church isn't lavish. They aren't trying to be outrageous in there, each one has it's own unique look. Now if anyone can help me out with explaining as much as they can! What are the ordinance rooms, and why are there like 3 or 4 of them? Then there are sealing rooms which I understand those, I don't know that I understood the ordinance rooms though...? I will be honest where I can't help but get stuck a little on the temple. They say to always prepare yourself so you can go to the temple, but how do you know what you are preparing yourself for? Nobody can really give you explanations only basic answers, now don't get me wrong I understand why. Though I'm sure you can see for someone like me (a convert) simple isn't always good enough. I like to research and understand why I'm doing what I'm doing. It just seems difficult to really know why you want to go through the temple, if you don't even really know what goes on in there or the point of it? So if you can get the gist of my question here and a slight dilema I'm getting stuck on, then please feel free to comment :) This post I hope isn't coming across negative, because the temple was beautiful and I really enjoyed seeing it. There was nothing negative about it, just questions that arose that I really kind of figured they would. I mean the church can't expect that when they people walk through the whole temple and see rooms, but can't tell you a thing about them. Thank you all for your insight it really helps clear things up for me, and Mckel thank you for commenting on my last two posts you had really great points I appreciate it. Hope to hear from you all soon..... :)

Monday, February 9, 2009

Draper Temple

So I wanted to just share with you all how big of a deal this really is to me to be going to the Draper Temple. Most of you that I know that have been checking out my blog (thanks by the way) your input means so much! Most of you have seen these rooms in the temple that I am going to get to see for the first time. I am not endowed or have gone through the temple, I have a limited use recommend which only allows me certain places. Anyhow this is going to be a very big deal for me. I'm taking my mom and sister they are really excited to see it, then Chris and his family are going as well. It will be a nice event to get everyone together, especially since my mom and sister are not active LDS members. They are so respectful and open minded though that it's why I wanted them to see it with me and experience it. I'm wondering what Chris will think of it. Anyhow I will have pictures and all the details posted tomorrow evening or Wednsday so please look for them. Also if any of you have attended yet let me know I want to hear what you though, or if you are planning on going. I will use some tools from my previous posts comments and say a nice prayer. I really am wanting to feel surrounded there and understand what it is all about, this could be a moment for me to see if I want to go through one day. Hopefully Chris will retain something from this experience as well :) so I thank you all again and I will hear from you soon hopefully.