Mothers Who Know

"Mothers who know" do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all. Their goal is to prepare a rising generation of children who will take the gospel of Jesus Christ into the entire world. Their goal is to prepare future fathers and mothers who will be builders of the Lord’s kingdom for the next 50 years. That is influence; that is power." ~Julie Beck

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Conference Weekend

I love General Conference. Sometimes you hear things that you know are meant just for you. Yesterday was filled with inspirational talks and ideas that make me want to work harder and be a better person. Our stake president has challenged us to read and study the conference talks each day. I started doing that with April's conference where each day I read and thought about one talk. It was really cool. It didn't seem overwhelming like if you sit down and read the Ensign from cover to cover each one was about 2-3 pages and you could get the gist and think about that throughout the day. One of the talks yesterday afternoon could have been given in our ward conference last week. Our conference theme was "Becoming a Zion People" and his talk went right along with it.
We also did a lot of cleaning, organizing and shopping last night. Remember the baptism is on Saturday. I did take off Friday so that I could get everything done and I'm not a stress case.

3 comments:

Cindi said...

Me too. :)

JessieC said...

Hey, why isn't Darren in your header picture? I love conference weekend, it's so relaxing, your whole day is pretty much planned for you. How is it going in fifth grade?

Kerri said...

Because I Kathryn made it so of course I'm not going to put Darren in it!! He He He!! Besides he doesn't really care he thinks girls talk to much. Kathryn