Sunday, January 31, 2016
It has been a nice week. Monday morning I went to Zumba. That afternoon Spencer had a basketball game
and did awesome. He didn’t get put in
until the end of the 2nd quarter, but he came out aggressive and
made some great shots and so he got to stay in the rest of the game. It was a close game and Spencer’s team pulled
out the win.
Tuesday seemed like a busy day but looking back at
my calendar it wasn’t really that bad.
It was my turn to host Tilly’s friends Emma and Jane Wamsley. Spencer had an orthodontist appointment that
lasted about 20 seconds and things are still looking good since he’s gotten his
braces off. Spencer had another game
that afternoon and his team won again.
He got to start, but I was late and didn’t get to see it. He said he didn’t play very well and got
pulled out quickly. When he got put in
later during the game I was there and he did a good job. I had to leave Spencer’s game early to go with
the Laurels to a special fireside chat at ASU with Elder Neil L. Andersen and
Pres. Crow, ASU’s President. It was a
neat experience. It made me quite
impressed with ASU and it would be a great place for my children to go to
college if they so choose. They talked
about the importance of education and that education is not to just get a job,
but it is important for whom we want to become and that it is important to get
as much education as we can. Here are
some of the messages I got from the evening:
- Pres. Crow- The human mind is a great endowment and so is our identity. We need to take those two things and use them to communicate and praise God. What do we do with those gifts? Education is essential in our ability to adapt. A person’s family and faith are important at ASU. They have worked hard so that LDS can attain a religious and technical education seamlessly.
- Elder Robert C. Gay – It is a great myth that you don’t need a college education. A college education keeps your options maximized. If you don’t get a college degree about 85% of doors are closed to you.
- Elder Andersen – Talked about going to ASU vs. BYU because an ASU student wrote to him and asked him about that. He said that when the church was small BYU had a big purpose in order for young single adults to be able to meet each other. BYU used to be the one place where you could put yourself around lots of YSA. But in our area there is no longer a need to go to a church school to meet lds youth. The Lord will direct our humble prayers of where we should go to school. One person’s answer and choice isn’t the same for everyone. You don’t have to make a decision once and for all. You can spend a semester elsewhere. Don’t take on too much debt especially as an undergraduate. Work while you go to school.
All of the people on the panel were asked how to
make a decision of which road to choose and feel good about it? (ie which
college to go to, which major to choose, etc.)
Here are their answers to that question:
- Sis. Gay – merge passions, emotion and intelligence. Just start. Start somewhere. It’s ok if you decide to change paths. Put your life in order and you’ll get direction.
- Elder Gay – There is no shame in changing paths. Don’t wander. No shame in failure, just don’t give up.
- Pres. Crow – What do you want your life to mean? Get on the track of the thing that makes you smile and excites your brain.
- Elder Andersen – Stay humble, stay prayerful. Sometimes you have to start down a direction before you feel a direction. Make a mature decision.
It has been cool to have been taught by two
Apostles of the Lord this month in our area!!
Such a rare experience and our youth got it twice in one month.
Wednesday Tilly had her music class and then she
went to play at Grant and Ryan Sorenson’s house. I cleaned and cleaned that day. Our house needed it. Bryant and Spencer got to go to code club at
the library again that evening. I decided
to get serious about losing weight on Wednesday. I posted this on Facebook: Ok. I have taken far too long to come to
this resolution but it's time. I have resolved to lose 20 pounds. I'm sharing
it here for accountability purposes. Exercising has never been the problem, but
eating healthy has. I know how to do it so I'm going to make it happen. P.S. I don't want to buy your products. I have already lost 4 pounds and still have a
firm resolve to reach my goal of losing 20 points.
Thursday Tilly got to go to Grammy days and I went
visiting teaching. Bryant had basketball
practice that evening, I had a meeting with the stake YW presidency in
preparation for ward conference that I almost missed because I didn’t put it in
my phone and Chad and the kids helped Heather (Chad’s sister) get moved into
her house. We’re so glad that Heather
and Elliot are moving back to this side of the US. Elliot is still in North Carolina for a few
more weeks finishing up a prep course to take the AZ and surrounding states bar
exam, but he is finished with law school now.
They aren’t sure where they’ll end up, but they want to stay on this side
of the US where the church is strong.
They’ll be in Queen Creek until he takes the bar and finds out his
results.
Friday I went visiting teaching to another sister
and that evening Chad and I went to the temple.
We barely made it into the 6:15 session; we were the second to last
couple. They had to do two extra
sessions that evening since the Mesa temple is closed and it was so busy. Normally 7:00pm is the last session, but that
night they added a 7:45pm session and an 8:30pm session so they wouldn’t have
to turn anyone away. That is
wonderful!!
Yesterday I took the girls to build-a-bear to use
the gift cards they got from Santa.
Since I had an extra gift card (they come in a 4 pack at Costco) Bryant
came too. It was a neat experience, but
wow it is SO expensive. My kids were sad
they didn’t get to pick out more than one of the cheapest accessories, but I
didn’t want to spend $10-$15 for each teddy bear clothe item. I don’t even spend that much on my kids
outfits. Chad did a lot of things around
the house that needed doing yesterday and then he and I went to Bryant’s
basketball game and took a gift to Puring in her new care home for her
birthday. Her birthday is actually
today, but since I planned to get her favorite Chinese food for her gift we
took it to her yesterday.
Today has been a wonderful Sabbath day. It was our ward conference. Our bishop talked about having a shatterproof
testimony. He said life will
happen. Will our testimonies withstand a
“drop off the counter” or a “fall down the stairs”? He prefaced those questions with a story
about how he tried those things with the Heinz shatterproof ketchup bottle when
it was new. His message was about
continually renewing our testimonies.
President Derrick also spoke about testimonies. (He is an engineer so his analogies relate to
that.) He said that when things are hard
they tend to be brittle, like a ceramic plate.
He said that Corelle dinnerware is made so that the exterior is cooled
very quickly but the inner layer doesn’t cool as quickly so it is more
flexible. He asked us if our testimonies
were too hard set. They need to be
strong, but strength and toughness are too different things. We need to be tough so we need to have a fire
within us so that we cool more quickly.
We also heard a lot about the Sabbath Day in our messages from the stake
today. We were challenged to go from a
good Sabbath day to a better or best Sabbath Day and that we need to avoid
regimentation. We give room for the Holy
Ghost by avoiding regimentation.
I felt the hand of the Lord this week as he
answered my prayer of how to fix a relationship with someone who is important
to me that I had soured. I kind of made
a mess of things so I had been praying for several days of a way to make peace
and make it right. On Tuesday I felt the
Lord making me more aware of what I had done wrong and I was prompted to text
that individual and apologize for what the Lord had shown me I had done wrong. I followed that prompting and I feel it has brought
peace between us and started the path for that individual to trust me again. It was a neat experience. I love how when the Lord shows you something
you have done wrong you feel love and a way to make it better. When the devil points out your mistakes you
feel like a lousy, total screw up.
Love,
Mindy
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