Inspired

Sunday, Avery and Delaney, were both sick with colds and I needed to be at church to take care of Enrichment duties, so Brian stayed home with them. I sat by a friend whose husband travels a lot and I was able to actually LISTEN to the talks and feel of the Spirit. It also happened to be Ward Conference and we had the privilege to hear from the Bishop.

He told a story about when his children were a lot younger there was a mission president that just returned and he really wanted to be able to listen to their talks but their youngest son was just very disruptive. He had to take him out in the hall way at least 4 times and Bishop had said that he didn't have the opportunity to hear anything that was said and was disappointed. He said that he felt he would of gotten more out of staying at home and reading his scriptures than fighting with his son all during sacrament. He asked himself why he even bothered coming.

The bishop goes on to talk about how he talked to an older man in the ward and told him about how hard it was dealing with young kids and feeling of the Spirit. The man responded with this:

"I have eaten thousands of meals that my wife has cooked in the many years we have been married. I know I was present for those meals, but I couldn't tell you the menu of meals that I ate. I know I ate them and I was strengthened because of those meals or I would be dead."



I NEEDED to hear that talk. I know that our Bishop was inspired to share that story for me. I am sure many of you have heard me say, "Why do I even bother?" I spend the majority of my meetings in the hallway trying to keep my child quiet or doing laps in the over heated building. I realize now that, I might not remember anything that I heard from that meeting, but it is important to just be present! I WILL be strengthened for being there.


Also, I loved our lesson in Relief Society Sunday on "How Glorious Are Faithful, Just, and True Friends."

There was something that I just loved in that lesson that I haven't been able to get out of my head since. I thought I would share it and maybe you will love it too.

Joseph Smith was quoted as saying the following about Emma after she visited him in jail, "undaunted, firm, and unwavering—unchangeable, affectionate Emma! "

I love that quote and hope that one day my husband can say the same about me.

I also wanted to share a few quotes that I loved about being a friend:

“I don’t care what a man’s character is; if he’s my friend—a true friend, I will be a friend to him, ...... helping him out of his difficulties."

“Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of ‘Mormonism’; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers. …

“… Friendship is like Brother [Theodore] Turley in his blacksmith shop welding iron to iron; it unites the human family with its happy influence.”

“That friendship which intelligent beings would accept as sincere must arise from love, and that love grow out of virtue, ........ Hence the saying of Jesus, ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’