All Good Blessings Come From God

How can we show Heavenly Father our gratitude for all that He has done for us? That is my focus right now, concentrating on the good blessings in my life. I have to stop thinking about what I USE to have and what I WISH I had and focus on the here and now and all the blessings in my life. Heavenly Father is so good to me. I have a wonderful family and we have food to eat and a home to live in. We have cars to drive and work to drive them to. All of my children are able to go to school and they all attend church and church activities. We are free to practice our faith without fear. We have a good church family who cares about us and prays for us, whether they live here in Arkansas or back in Utah, the prayers go to the same place. We have cell phones so that we can keep in touch with each other any time we want or need to. We have a web camera so that we can watch Bailey grow up even tho she is hundreds of miles away. We have two dogs who alert us when people come around, even if it is at 11:00pm.
So how can I show Heavenly Father my gratitude for all that He has given me? I can joyfully go to Him in prayer and thank Him. I can read my scriptures to learn more about Him and how I should be living my life. I can attend Conference on the Internet and at the meeting house and rejoice in the things I hear there. I can attend my meetings on Sunday and I can read my lessons ahead of time to be able to take part in the lessons. I can focus on learning everything there is to know about the new Family Search so that I will be an asset to my ward. I can be available to help others when it is convenient for them even if it is not convenient for me. I can really, really try to do my visiting teaching and not find excuses about the gas money and the time it takes to drive that far. But most of all, I can focus on teaching my family how good God is to us and the struggles we are going through is just to make us a stronger vessel for Heavenly Father to use. I love you Father!

My New Calling

Oh My GOSH!!!! I am soooo excited! Joy and I were late getting to church even though we left 45 minutes before it started! We had to stop in and see Linda who is sick. Anyhow, Jennifer was saving us a seat and we walked in with about one minute until they should have started and Bishop motioned for me to go into the hall. He said he was sorry to do this with short notice but they had a calling for me. He told me and I was so excited, I have been called to be one of the family history counselors!!!! I am so excited, I spent all afternoon and evening yesterday on the site and I love it and I didn't even know I was getting the calling!
I am so blessed to be called into something that I love doing. They are going to start Sunday school classes and they even have a plan to get everyone to find an ancestor to take to the temple. They don't know that I have been through all that before - YES - I finally don't feel totally stupid when I have been called to something. I learned so much the first time I had this calling back in Utah and now I can put that experience to work here. I'm so excited, that I just can't hide it (are you singing along?). Anyhow, I know that we were sent here for a reason and this is one of them, the kids and I all can help. We LOVE getting to know peoples ancestors. I will keep you posted.

Please Comment

Please post comments about what you think when you read my blog. If you have insite to what I am feeling or learning, share it. If you are reminded of something in your own life because of what you read here, please share it. We all learn from each other. Share your wisdom with me and I can learn from your journey and make mine a more pleasant experience. I am sure you have Spiritual wisdom for me and also guidance as I try to raise my children and then let them go with the hope I trained them up in the right way. Maybe others can learn from your comments as well, we are here to help each other!

Understanding The Plan

When I read last weeks Relief Society lesson I had so many questions, I was hoping that they would be answered at church. I left with even more questions but reading ahead to the next lesson I have hope that they will be answered then. I now understand that Heavenly Father took some of the matter that was already out there and formed our Spirits. This was an answer to some of my questions. Reading Jennifer's history lesson for the week, when talking about learning from our mistakes, it quotes from Ecclesiastics 1:9 saying "...there is no new thing under the sun". It hit me so strong at that moment, I understand now, everything has already happened before and will happen again, if not in this world then in the worlds to come. The mistakes I have made have been made by others before me and will be made by other after me if they do not learn from my mistakes. How can they learn from my mistakes if I do not tell others what I have learned? How can I learn from others mistakes if they do not share them? We are all here to help each other. If we see someone going through things we have experienced, we need to share our experiences and then let their agency take them through it in their own way. EUREKA. I can tell my children what I have learned but I have to let them experience it themselves and make their own decisions and hope they remember my lessons and choose the right. We share our children's joys and sorrows as we watch them learn and grow. They bring so much love to our lives. With each child our love grows larger and deeper. The same goes for Heavenly Father. Heavenly Father's joys and sorrows come from watching us. We must do a better job doing the things that bring him joy and try our best not to bring Him sorrow. Have you read Ecclesiastes lately? You should reread it keeping in mind that Heavenly Father is speaking to us and explaining that our search for happiness lies in Him.

I can hardly wait for two more weeks until we get back to the Plan and I can learn more about what happens after this life. I hope you all read up on this so that that my many questions might be answered!