Here are some of my notes:
--We teach the gospel in our homes, when we're visiting teaching or home teaching and as we live as examples to others.
--Teaching in the home is a sacred responsibility.
--Sometimes the "seeds" we plant may not bear fruit for years.
--Having Family Home Evening each week is crucial.
--Children learn from having family prayer. They learn the language of prayer, they learn to have faith, they learn to be obedient, and they learn to feel God's love.
--If we are vigilant at looking for little signs of trouble in our homes we will be able to solve problems before they get out of control.
--Teach repentance.
--Teach by example, be doers of the word not hearers only.
--The Savior was always teaching and showed genuine love and understanding as He taught.
**Thoughts**
Comment Window Tidbit: I did class visits during both hours of primary today and caught a 4 year old as he snuck out of primary and made a run to find his mother.
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My five year old just prayed and thanked Heavenly Father for putting our spirits and bodies together for us. She must be listening in Primary!
We always go 30 minutes early to church so we can get "our pew." I don't know what I will do if ever we don't get it. I won't know how to act.
I like your Sunday thoughts.
We always always sit on the folding chairs in the back. I hate it but have come to accept that we are part of the folding chairs crowd. If we ever move up, I'm afraid we would be taking someone's bench and I would feel bad.
Funny about your class visits!!!
Love your Sunday posts. I love to see what others learn from church. So true about planting seeds and perhaps not bearing fruit for years....another reason to be a good example at all times.
Today our High Council speaker talked about anger. Becoming angry is OUR choice. Mosiah 3:13 - it is an on going battle daily to choose.
Daily as we struggle to overcome the natural man -
Anger doesn't solve anything
it builds nothing
and destroys everything...
What's up with this rain? I feel like I am back in OREGON... :-)
Nice photo!!
I like the idea of being vigilant and looking for little signs of trouble in the home, being proactive.
p.s. We were 15 minutes early today and I was surprised by how little room there was left in the chapel!
these are great thoughts. 20 minutes early?! yikes. i walk in 5 minutes early and get my usual seat. i forget what life in the lower 48 is like!
this gives me hope. i am planting seeds with rowdy 5 year olds who do not listen and only grasp the concept of reverance when threatened with notes home to parents (i'm considering it- something i've NEVER EVER done in primary before).
It sounds like we would be sitting by each other in church. We sit about in that spot just in the middle. We take up half of a big bench.
I really believe that it is crucial to have FHE every week. We need to be teaching and reinforcing things with our kids. These are really great notes.
I don't know if we ever had to risk not getting a cushy pew. Seriously. The thought of having to go into the overflow every Sunday is a foreign one to me.
I love your notes. In my Sunday School class yesterday we talked about solving problems when they're small instead of letting them fester and build up and becoming a bigger deal than they need to be. Thanks for sharing!
Great thoughts! We sit on the left side also and have to get there at least 15 minutes early in order to get a bench seat. I have found that it is much more difficult to keep my kids reverent in the back folding chairs (we have a huge ward and the back is VERY loud), but sometimes I feel bad that we take up a soft pew with our loud kids...however, I think reverence in sacrament meeting starts when they are very young...
JUST like family prayer, FHe, etc.! I love to hear my kids pray and i LOVE that they LOVE to give the prayers. It all starts young.
You always take the best notes in Sacrament meeting. I love reading them, they strengthen me too.
we never ever have that problem. the church hard chairs are hard.
"be doer of the word" is one things i hope to pass along to my girls. want to be a better example.
You have to get there 20 minutes early to get a soft pew? Crazy! We show up at three minutes before the meeting and we're good.
That photo is amazing!
Great thoughts here- really important stuff-
I love your notes, love them. one of these days I'm gonna have it together I tell ya!
I miss primary... 4 is one of my favorite ages!
Oh, man, we've had a few runners in nursery. One Sunday we were busier than normal and we were focused on tending to some of our shaky kids (the ones who haven't fully caught the vision of nursery, if you take my meaning). About 45 minutes into the first hour, the Sunday School president knocks on the door and brings in one of stalwarts who, apparently, had been wandering around his classroom for quite some time!?!?!?! That made me look really awesome. I remembered seeing him in the beginning, but, well, I guess I forgot about him since I was too busy trying to convince the criers that I actually was a nice person and they would have so much fun if they stayed in Nursery. Toys! Singing Time! Fish crackers! Ah, the squeaky wheel...
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