Souvenirs

Yesterday morning, Tyler came and climbed in bed with me. He gave me a hug and said, "Mommy, you're growing up! Good job, Mommy! What do you want to be when you grow up?"

I said, "Um...a Mom." To that he said, "You can't be a Mom, cause you are already a Mom. What do you want to be?" I thought about the R.S. lesson I still needed to finish preparing and said, "A teacher." Tyler assured me, "That's good Mommy. You be a teacher."

I asked him what he was going to be when he grows up. He didn't skip a beat. "A fire dog." Oh really? "What will you do when you are a fire dog?" Tyler sighed because the answer was so obvious. "A fire dog has 4 legs, Mom." "Oh, so you'll have 4 legs?" "Yes, I'll have 4 legs." I can't wait to hear what he'll say next! :)

I got a new calling as enrichment counselor in the Relief Society just the week before we left on our long trip. So, now that we're back, it was my turn to teach yesterday. It made me laugh that for a 20 minute lesson, I spent loads of time preparing. I did learn a lot and since the lesson was on studying the scriptures and recognizing answers to our prayers, I am now motivated to be more consistent now with my daily personal prayers and scripture study. In my lesson, I quoted a clip I found on the new Mormon messages on YouTube. An excerpt from President Eyring's conference talk. Click on this video to view the message.



Looking back on the past week or more, I have been able to find many instances where I know Heavenly Father was watching out for our family. Just the other night, I returned home with the kids from visiting the library and the garage door stopped just halfway up. It was broken at that point and we just got out of the car and went into the house. But later I realized that if we hadn't been able open the door at all, we would have been totally locked out of the house since a baby lock was in place at the front door. What a blessing that we were able to get in under the partially opened door...

...A while later that same night, the kitchen faucet broke and the water wouldn't stop flowing. I recognize now that it was a blessing to have Travis home at the time so he could take care of the problem. If it had only been me at home, that water would have been running for hours. In my lesson, I likened it to hunting for arrowheads as a kid. At first it is hard to see any at all on a big, rocky mountain side. Then, after discovering the first "treasure", it was easier to find another because our eyes had been trained to notice the shape of the arrowhead in the dirt. Before long, we had several arrowheads in each of our hands to take home as souvenirs of our hunt. In a similar way, once we listen to the whisperings of the Holy Ghost and recognize His hand in our lives, it will become easier to notice evidence of answers to our prayers each day.