Another Sabbath day, and there's nothing better to do then to blog. I usually like to keep the sabbath as holy as I can. I grew up in a very strict home where the sabbath revolved around Christ and family. We weren't allowed to watch television, play, or spend money. Things we did on a day to day basis were restricted and avoided as much as possible on Sunday's. My parents would always say, 'Only one day of the week He asks of us'. Saturday's would be a day we prepared for Sunday's. Like the primary song ....Saturday is a special day, it's day we prepare for Sunday. We clean the house, we shop at the store...Pretty much explains it all. Sunday's we'd visit family, sing, write to missionaries, write in our journals, attend church, things that wouldn't distract our minds from Christ. If we played games, sometimes we'd get into arguements, which would cause the spirit to leave. If we watched something on T.V., the commercials or the programs language, acts, celebration, whatever it was...would lead our minds astray from what we learned in Church. Therefore, that's why my parents withdrew us from those activities. Today, I try to do the same with my little family. We try our best to center our sabbath day on our Savior. :) So, that's why I like blogging on Sunday's...
Last week we had the wonderful opportunity to hear from our lovely prophet, apostles, and our other dear leaders of the LDS Church. We don't have cable, but thank goodness for the many sources of technology that we have today we were able to watch General Conference on our laptop. I watched it with my family on Saturday and then watch Sunday's session on my husbands work laptop. Sad he missed it due to working, but grateful for the lds.org website we're abe to re-watch or read it. There were several talks that revolved around family, children, and marriage. I believe these topics were repeated in several talks because the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is all about family. Satan's plan to destroy His church is to reach out to families and destroy them. Therefore, these topics were to grab our attention so that we might strengthen our families and our marriages. Everything starts at home and we are to build up the Kingdom of God here on earth. I really enjoyed the talk about putting away phones, tv, technology and spend quality with our children and family. I applied that talk into my life this past week and I can totally see the difference in our home especially my relationship with my daughter. Now that it's getting warmer, I'm going to take her out doors more often and do other fun activites outdoors. I also loved the talk, I forget by who, about marriage and how marriage is PRICELESS. The covenant which I made with my husband in the House of the Lord to be sealed to him for all time and all eternity is worth more than anything in this world. Nothing in this world is more important to me than the relationship I have with my husband and our little family. There were other talks about atonement and our Savior Jesus Christ. When life hits us hard the only person we should have faith in to relieve our pain, struggles, matters to is to our Savior. He is the only person that can help us overcome anything and everything!
I am conference happy and definitely going to re-play conference again throughout this week. So grateful and blessed to have this gospel to remind me of my purpose here in this life.
My goals:
- FOE&Church-Family&God over everything. Always comes first no matter what.
- Better myself from the inside out
- Attend the temple as often as I can
- Withdraw from use of technology especially around Tina
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