• I know that I can do anything if my husband is a righteous priesthood holder who presides and leads out in faith.
• Surround yourself with great music in your homes. (Classical, Spiritual, etc.)
• “Nothing’s too hard for the Lord, for the Lord, Nothing’s too hard for the Lord, if he has a job that he wants me to do, it’s not hard for me and the Lord.”
• Always kiss and say “See children? I love your mother.” “See children? I love your father.”
• Think and fast about your children’s problems and then address it later when you can talk about it with love and the spirit instead of anger and contention.
• Always pray to know the Lord’s will.
• Read “Beware of Pride” (it tells you about how to help children have self esteem”
• She had her 12th baby at 47 years old! (7 years after the 11th baby was born)
• Consult the Lord, he will help you!!!
• Google: February 11th 1999 (letter from the first presidency)
• Google Mothers In Zion Ezra Taft Benson talk
• Do a scripture story at lunch time (use the gospel art kit)

     

1. Love the Lord and the visions he has for you.
2. Meaningful Mornings
3. Be First and Firmest to Follow the Prophet
4. Mid Day Miracles (Read the scriptures during lunch, create your own holidays, proactive events that you make happen, notes in lunches.
5. Know and Implement with faith the 4 highest priorities for Parents (family prayer, family home evening, gospel study and instruction, and wholesome family activities. – family prayer hug -Tuesday night date night
6. Use the Sabbath Day for Family Gospel Study Time (What do you do to teach the gospel in your home on the sabbath?) -Sunday type clothes helps attitude all day long, write in journals, 3 or 4 hours of gospel study every Sunday. You can’t rely on Family Home Evening alone for gospel study.
7. Afternoon Appointments
8. Establish and Maintain your Marriage and Family On 9 True Principles (The Proclamation to the Family)
9. Evening Enjoyment
10. Live in Thanksgiving daily (“Grateful in any circumstances” April 2014 Elder Uchtdorf, D&C

• Whenever possible, avoid meetings during hours on Sunday where you can be together as a family. Then you can do things like write letters, write in journals, gospel study and time together
• WE NEED TO HAVE FAMILY COUNSEL MEETING
• BEARING TESTIMONY (The testimony glove— five things that you should bear your testimony about)

• Get a Friend subscription.
• Work on my walls at home and cover them with Christ and faith building things.
• it’s okay if the kids seem like they’re not learning.
• Family Home Evening (start with dinner, lesson, activity,
• MAKE SUNDAYS SACRED, the Sabbath is a delight. The way you can make it a delight is to study the gospel.
• Expect things to only work for a week or two, evaluate, and then change your plan.
• Fast Sunday (Personal Priesthood Interview)
• Stations, write in journals, come back and report, read to them (Jesus the Christ), I’ll give you quarter if you can pick out a word that I don’t know. Pioneer stories. Indexing. Family History.
• Educate your ward.
• Christ is at the Helm Video
• With chaos just keep teaching and (teach in 15 minute segments)
• Build Legos (read Preach My Gospel while they work)
• Have the kids write quizzes (read family history stories) to give to their siblings.

 

“We can relate to the promises of the Lord in this modern-day world. Do we not need today, just as the Israelites did in the Old Testament, to have the land yield her increase and the trees of the field yield their fruit? Do we not also need to have rain in due season and peace in the land and to be able to lie down and not be afraid and to not have the sword or wars go through our land? Do we not also want the Lord to have respect for us and help us be fruitful and multiply and establish His covenant with us? All of these promises apply to us today.” -Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy, Earl C. Tingey

President George Albert Smith said “much of the sorrow and distress that is afflicting and will continue to afflict mankind is traceable to the fact that they have ignored His [God’s] admonition to keep the Sabbath day holy.”

Here is a collection of more quotes on the topic, believe me when I say it’s never too late to change your practice NOW is always the best time.

Sabbath Day Quotes

“I would be as difficult to take an inventory of the benefits the world receives from the sunshine as to enumerate the blessings we derive from the Christian Sabbath.”
—Hervey Doddridge Ganse

“The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.”
—Matthew Henry

“As we keep or break the Sabbath day, we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.”
—Abraham Lincoln

“Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.”
—Wayne Muller

“We meet dozens of people, have so many conversations. We do not feel how much energy we spend on each activity, because we imagine we will always have more energy at our disposal. This one little conversation. This one little extra phone call, this one quick meeting, what can it cost?…..But it does cost…..it drains yet another drop of our life. Then, at the end of days, weeks, months, years, we collapse, we burn out, and cannot see where it happened. It happened in a thousand unconscious events, tasks and responsibilities that seemed easy and harmless on the surface, but that each one after the other used a small portion of our precious life. And so, we are given a commandment, which is actually a gift: ‘Remember the Sabbath’”.—Wayne Muller

“Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.”—Eugene Peterson

“Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.”—Albert Schweitzer

“The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body. . . Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. . . . It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.”—Charles Spurgeon

“In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, He will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him . . . that we spend a while thinking about Him, meditating on him, talking to Him, listening in silence, occupying ourselves with Him totally and thoroughly lost in the hiding place of His presence.”—Chuck Swindoll

“Break down Sunday, close the churches, open the bars and the theatres on that day, and where would values be? What was real estate worth in Sodom?”
—Herman Lincoln Wayland

For even more learning on what you can do to show your sign to the Lord on His Sabbath Day, read this:

https://www.lds.org/ensign/2000/02/keeping-the-sabbath-day-holy?lang=eng

Now is the time to start. It will perfect your life and fill your soul with the much needed living water that it needs.

Can’t wait to hear about it.

I’ve been having one of those days…. you know, THOSE days.  I feel as though I have put on my “I can get through this” attitude for so many days in a row that today, I caved. My husband was home so I could finally let down my walls, accept his help and love,  and I cried. Poor hubby needs a day off from his day off. 😉

I am eight months pregnant and all the discomfort that that entails, struggling with what our near future holds. We have moved to a new city only to be here for one year. I am having baby number four, we live on a shoe string budget…. whine… whine… whine…. okay. I can buck up now. Almost.

I have prayed multiple times today. I have read my patriarchal blessing. I have had a good cry. I have exercised. I have studied the words of God. Then I read through my study notes— and I came across this….

“Surely Mary thought at one time, “What will others think of me?” When she was a virgin, engaged to be married, going to bare a child, the Son of God.

Surely Mary felt overwhelmed– knowing that she was the one chosen to raise the Son of God.

Surely Mary felt uncomfortable riding on a donkey 9 months pregnant — yikes!

But through all of this she had peace. Peace knowing that she was a crucial part of God’s plan. She knew that ALL things would be for her good. She knew that her work and destiny was devinely planned and that she would never be alone.

Yes, she raised the Perfect Son… None of us can say the same– but because of her Son we can all become perfect. It is our choice whether we want to procrastinate until it’s too late or accept God’s love and role in our lives. Accept that He has a work for each of us to do. We can have peace in this life. All things WILL work for our good. We are not alone.”

~David A. Bednar

And now I feel as though I can go on. 

In an interview of Bishop Desmond Tutu, Anglican Arch Bishop of South Africa—

Interviewer asks:  “Is there anything that’s changed in your relationship to God over the years?“

Bishop Tutu:   “Well yes, I used to pray with a list of things. Concerns and needs that I would roll off in my prayer. And that was the whole burden of my prayer. Now I spend a lot more time just being quiet. It’s like a fire in winter. You don’t have to be anybody special, you don’t have to be smart… it just warms you.”