An LDS Conversation
A daily log of the Lord’s blessings in my life!Archive for February, 2008
Moving
Right now, I am in a hurry to write something. I am moving in two days and I need to get everything straightened up so that I can clean. My mom was supposed to come here to help, but with the weather being yucky it might not happen. So I want to be as ready as possible. So I am gearing up for a big packing frenzy.
I am grateful that I could read my scriptures throughout the day. I am glad that I was able to get many of the things on my list of things to do done. I am looking forward to moving into a house. I am grateful that I was able to serve in the Relief Society here before moving, because it gave me the opportunity to learn everyone’s names and to get to know everyone. Plus I hope I have learned to be more outgoing when I get to my new ward. I know it was hard to be in the ward at first, cause we didn’t know anyone. I have much more fun when I know the sisters I go to church with. So here’s hoping for an outgoing Me when I get to the new place.
Oh, gotta go . . . I see my dad is online and I would like to chat.
Temple Night
Well, today I am most grateful that everything worked out for me to go to the temple with the ladies from my ward. I love it when everything works out for that. I have also been blessed to receive some insight into the lesson that I am teaching in Relief Society on the first Sunday in March. My last lesson was on Optimism. I think I am going to take my inspiration this time from President Eyring’s talk about “Someday.” I just want to teach something that will be most helpful to the sisters in my ward.
I have also been reading the Book of Mormon for the Hinckley Challenge (to read the Book of Mormon in 97 days in memory and honor of President Hinckley) and I have been gaining great insights from the chapeters I have read thus far.
I also got a comment from someone about the Pope and that they usually are well known and that they are always well known within the cardinals. I am grateful for that comment.
We are moving in only four short days. I am grateful that Iam helping some friends out by watching their kids for them. I have realized that you can’t really just wait for service opportunities to come to you, you have to plan for them and go get them. I watched two little kids today for a friend and it really helped me get my house cleaned up in little less than an hour. I am grateful for that. I have been meaning to do that, and nothing gets cleaning done like little kids coming over to play!! 
We were also blessed with an unexpected first paycheck. We thought John was only getting paid for a few days, but he was paid for the few days plus the first two weeks of February. So yeay!
That is all for tonight. God bless!
John was blessed today in several ways. He was frustrated with something he was working on and God granted him the patience to keep at it to get it fixed. He was also hooked up with a guy from Papervision to maybe write a book together. He was also blessed to get an article he was working on done in time for the deadline today. I just thought I would ask him and have him share some ways he saw the Lord work in his life today.
I was blessed to read about 11 pages from the Book of Mormon today. Ben and I had a great time today too. I pray that I can teach him the things that I know about life and Jesus Christ. I have been blessed with another day with my family. I love all of them very much. I am blessed to have a cell phone and have unlimited text messages so that me and my mom could text back and forth today! I love it, cause she is one of the only people who will text me in random situations. I love getting text messages from people I love.
That is all I am going to write about, but I have been blessed in countless ways that at this time will not be written.
My Great Blessings from the Lord
Yesterday, right as I was getting ready for bed I heard Ben crying. I had just gotten out of the shower, so I sent John. Ben had already been asleep for a while and he usually will go right beck to sleep. But this was not a usual night. He had been sick and he had just gotten some shots from the doctor. What followed was just the saddest thing. I went into his room when the crying didn’t subside after a few minutes. John handed him to me and said he has never seen him like this.
Well, I took my baby in my arms and he cried and cried and wiggled and wiggle. He wouldn’t let me hold him. He kept turning and twisting as though no position was comfortable. I am the kind of person who thinks that the worst is happening. I was sitting there watching him move trying to guess what it could be that was hurting him. As I rubbed and comforted, he cried and only stopped twice in an hour and only for a few seconds. If you know Ben, you know that he doesn’t cry like that. I was beginning to get worried.
So, I said a prayer. I had him laying in my lap in his diaper so I could have my hand rub right onto his back and belly. After my prayer, I took him into the bedroom. We sat on the bed and he started to cry a little less. He found some comfortable positions with his head in my lap and was asleep within a half hour. Oh what a blessing that was!! I was just so happy that he calmed down and nothing was wrong.
That was the way the Lord touched our life yesterday.
Another Sick Day
Well, I thought Ben was all better, but turns out he was sick again today.
So today I am grateful for modern diapers and plumbing. Ben was all sorts of messy this evening and I was able to get him cleaned up in no time. I won’t go into details, but I am just glad that I have things that make my life a little easier when I take care of my baby.
We were able to watch some tributes to President Hinckley today on the TV. I love to hear about his life and all he has done. John said something of interest to me too. He said that it is funny to think that when we get a new prophet he is someone we have been listening to for years and years, but when the Catholic church gets a new pope, people don’t know who it is going to be and then they don’t really know who he is once he becomes the pope. Very interesting. Cause it is so true. I have always loved President Monson and his talks. I know you aren’t supposed to have favorites, but he is one of my favorites.
And that is all for tonight. I have to get some rest so I can take care of my sick baby tomorrow. Hopefully he won’t be sick, but you just never know.
Friends as blessings
God usually uses those around us to answer our prayers. He can also use us in the same way. Today I was blessed to go with my little family to a basketball game and see a friend of mine from AK. She coaches in the conference that our local schools are in so she came to town today for the game. It was great to see her and to spend time with John.
He started asking me about how she ranked among my friends. I thought it was a funny question and told him I didn’t rank my friends. He proceeded to say well, if this person asked you to a party and this person did that same night and so did this other one??? He is too funny. I told him that would never happen. One of them would have had to ask me first and I would have to go to the party where I had already committed to. Anyway, it was just funny to think about. Then he said, I would go to Levi’s party. Ha. Levi is his life long buddy. Of course he would go to his party. He’s funny.
Ben was sick yesterday and he is feeling better today. That is a blessing. He is so stinking cute! I am grateful for the time where I get to cuddle with him cause he isn’t feeling good and he wants to be held, but I am grateful that it didn’t last too long and that he is better now.
A good meal
Today my blessing was being able to cook a good meal. I made some blackened chicken pizza and it was delicious. I mentioned that Coach Hensen told me to cook more, so I went to my cookbook and cooked something. I am very glad that it was yummy. I gain confidence when I do things well.
I was also able to get a good night’s rest last night. Ben slept in a bit and I was able to get him up at 7:40. I also read him some scriptures during breakfast. I got to spend the whole day with him. He is super cute. He learned that certain holes in his shape sorting bucket fit certain shapes. He would put the circle in and then take the lid off, grab the circle and put it back into the same hole. I usually have to cover the other holes for him so he will put it in the right one. But not today. He did it all on his own and I was teaching him blue circle.
Today was a great day. I was also blessed with energy and happiness and patience.
Just being with Ben
Today was a normal day for me. The blessing I want to share is just being able to be with my son today. He woke up at 6:00 and wasn’t too happy about being awake. I tried to see if he’d go back to sleep, but he didn’t so I was up at 6:30 with him. He is just such a cute boy. I am so very blessed to have him in my life. I love his smile. I love his laugh and his playfulness. He is so stinking cute.
I am blessed to have him in my life.
Ok, Change of Plans
I decided that I can’t always post here about the lesson. It hasn’t been working out. So, I am going to write down things that I want to write down, namely how the Lord has blessed me in the day. Elder Eyring gave a talk about always writing down how the Lord had blessed him that day. That is what I want to do. I can do that everyday.
Today I was blessed to come home to my baby who I had been away from for four days. He is even happier than when I left.
I was blessed to go to the gym with my sister and run/walk two miles. I am very blessed with health and strength.
I was blessed to make it home safely on the plane.
Yesterday (since my post got lost when I tried to post it and then it was too late to write I will comment on that), I was blessed to spend half the day with Coach Hensen. I love spending just one on one time with her. She blessed my life by helping me to realize that I am a wife and a mother who needs to be cooking for my hubby and son. I am going to try to start planning meals and cooking. Also, she helped me realize that I should be doing this too. It is just so good to talk to her. She is one of those people in my life that I listen to. She really lights a fire in my belly!! (That is something she would always say when she coached me)
I spent the evening/weekend just me and John. We had like a second honeymoon. How fun!
I received an order from my sister-in-law for the new Mary Kay Mineral Foundation and some other things. Yeay! Blessings!
That is all for now. I am really hoping this will turn into something great. A blessing-o-rama. 
A Challenge
The challenge is found at www.hinckleychallenge.com
The challenge is to read the Book of Mormon in 97 days in honor of President Hinckley. Check it out!!!!
I am doing it. I am not sure how this will effect my postings, but we’ll just have to see.
I did read chapter 20 today and I love the part where he explains that a mother cannot forget her sucking child just as Jesus will never forget us. He has graven us on His palms. He will never forget us! What a glorious piece of knowledge.
