daniel and emily

I love visiting teaching.  I love the program.  I love my visiting teaching partner.  I love the sisters that visit me and that I get to visit.  In fact every time I go visiting teaching, I come out a much better person.  I feel like the message and visit that I give is hardly anything compared to the things they teach me.  And it isn't always about the lesson.  Here are some examples:

• Sister Rocknak and Sister Daniel came to visit me and the lesson was one that touched my heart.  Maybe it was due to the circumstance, I don't know.  Realizing that I am a daughter of God and I have divine potential has been a subject that I know to be true and have always known.  That is just the way it is.  However, in my heart and mind I have thought that my being a daughter of God is a blessing of the future - or my potential for some later day.  But it is even now.  Every night Jeffrey asks us to sing him "I am a child of God" and it has been another reminder each night that I am a daughter of God.  I can and am capable today of progressing, growing, learning, helping -- everything that Heavenly Father has given me to be able to do.  BUT I am not growing and progressing on my own.  Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ deserve all the credit.  All blessings come from God.
• Heidi has been talking about this "Secret" for months now.  I guess Secret is a book, movie, idea, etc. that enriches your whole life- the way you think, act, and live.  So with this in mind, she has month after month told us her stories and taught us through example that life is wonderful and it is all in perspective.  She's recommended a few books on the subject that have intrigued me.  I read The Jackrabbit Factor by Leslie Householder and am now reading the sequel Hidden Treasures by Leslie Householder.  Not that life hasn't been wonderful for me, but my perspective makes a difference on how I look at each incidence-- even the urine in the bathtub instead of the toilet 6 inches away.
• Sarah has taught me how to expand the strawberries from my patch by cutting the new growths that drain the mother plant of its nutrients.
• Love every moment, cherish play time, play with your children, and let go of the housework AND HAVE FUN!

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