On my mind....

On Saturday we got the opportunity to participate in the baptism of Kaity. It was such an incredible experience. I am so grateful we got to be a part of it.

On the way there we broke out our favorite Christmas CD, The Forgotten Carols! While listening to such beautiful music you couldn't help but feel the spirit. I don't know if you are familiar with the music.... but one of the songs is about Joseph and how he raised the Son of God.

It says something like this, "How could one so foolish and so flawed, ever hope to raise the Son of God...." "I am not his father, he is mine"

I suddenly felt like I had a lot more in common with Joseph than I had realized. What an overwhelming responsibility I have to raise a Daughter and Son of God, and I too feel inadequate for the job.

I am so glad that I don't have to do it alone. I am so grateful for the spirit that guides and comforts me and helps me to feel peace when there is chaos all around.

Through out the last couple of months I have had the opportunity to be a part of the "missionary experience" With Michelle and Peter being missionaries I was given the opportunity to go to the MTC and feel of the wonderful spirit that was there. In the past I never understood the spirit that comes from missionaries, but after reading the weekly letters of our missionaries and now having seen it from the side of a convert. I understand what an incredible thing it truly is. What greater gift can you give anyone, than the ability to live with God and your family for eternity~

As I watched the missionaries I realized that I wanted to do everything in my power to raise my children to be missionaries. This thought from Sister Beck from October conference came to my mind....

"Mothers who know are always teachers. Since they are not babysitters, they are never off duty. A well-taught friend told me that he did not learn anything at church that he had not already learned at home. His parents used family scripture study, prayer, family home evening, mealtimes, and other gatherings to teach. Think of the power of our future missionary force if mothers considered their homes as a pre–missionary training center. Then the doctrines of the gospel taught in the MTC would be a review and not a revelation. That is influence; that is power."

I suppose if I am going to raise missionaries, I better start doing a better job myself.

Anywho.... there is what has been on my mind the last couple of days.