Can you even believe how beautiful it is?

I am definitely going there someday. :)

The Family is Ordained of God

Over the past week in Family Relations class we have been learning about family systems. It has made me think a lot about how there are so many families that do not consist of a father, a mother, and children. This design is ordained of God. I know this to be true. Satan is a very smart guy, and he has figured out that if he can break up families, he can also oftentimes destroy the joy of the gospel within individuals. How tragic this is! I have made a commitment with myself, with my Heavenly Father, and although I don't know who he is yet, with my eternal companion, that I will fulfill my divine role and be a wife and mother. I will have a covenant marriage in the temple and I will dedicate my time to raising children in righteousness. I know that there is no more important work that I can do on this earth. And I know that my Heavenly Father will help me to accomplish this. :)

Here is a picture of my family and me (with blonde hair).

Loving Unconditionally

I recently heard a story that warmed the cockles of my heart. On her wedding day, a young woman made a commitment with herself that she would select ten quirks that her husband had that she would choose never to get frustrated with, that she would love unconditionally. In the flurry of the business of the wedding day, she never got around to making the list, so for their entire marriage, if he ever did or said anything that started to bother her, she would think to herself "Good thing that is on the list" and dismiss it.
I love this story.I believe that it is one of the big reasons why we are to get married: so we can learn true charity.
President Joseph F. Smith said: "We all have our weaknesses and failings. Sometimes the husband sees a failing in his wife, and he upbraids her for it. Sometimes the wife feels that her husband has not done just the right thing, and she upbraids him. What good does it do? Is not forgiveness better? Is not charity better? Is not love better? Isn't it better not to speak of faults, not to magnify weaknesses by iterating and reiterating them? Isn't that better? And will not the union that has been cemented between you and the birth of children and by the bond of the new and everlasting covenant, be more secure when you forget to mention weaknesses and faults one of another? Is it not better to drop them and say nothing about them--bury them and speak only of the good that you know and feel, one for another, and thus bury each other's faults and not magnify them; isn't that better?"

Worldy Trends

One of the things in this life that I feel most passionately about is the importance of the family. I love my family with all my heart, they are some of the most amazing people you will ever meet. I greatly look forward to the time in my life when I will have my own family. I know that the family unit is ordained of God.


Today in my Family Relations class we discussed some of the trends that are occurring in the world today concerning the family. One of the topics we discussed was divorce. I took a marriage class last semester that really changed the way that I view divorce. I used to think, as most people do, that divorce is an unfortunate but necessary "out" when infidelity or other difficult problems occur in marriage. I feel very differently now, and I take temple sealings much more seriously. I now feel that they are something that should never be broken. I learned in my class that most of the time the answer is repentance rather than divorce. When I get married one day I intend to have a marriage where divorce is not even an option, not in our vocabulary.


I am so grateful to belong to a church where the family unit so so valued. I love the family and I love my family.