Full Term

37 weeks and 5 days.

Just so you know! Not like it means anything. This baby is snug as a bug and seems to have no desire to come out!

Come on Mystery Baby!!! I wanna meet you already!

When the fruit is ripe, it will fall from the tree!!

Last Lesson.

Today I teach my last Relief Society Lesson. I am being relocated!! It was a fun and challenging calling. I learned a lot preparing and participating in class! Although it was a short calling, I only taught 5 or 6 times, I really liked it. I am excited for my new calling. I am still teaching and I hope they like me. I am weird about team teaching because I am a control freak and I like structure and consistency especially with children. Okay, so I gave it away.

Today we are doing the 3rd lesson in the Gospel Principles Manual.


JESUS CHRIST, OUR SAVIOR AND LEADER!!
What a perfect topic for Valentine's Day. Last time I taught I was reminded in a kind of strong way that Charity and Love is really what "it's all about". I don't know why this came as a surprise to me. I guess I have a lot to learn still concerning Charity but charity is the pure love of Christ and I think it's perfect for today!

I am going to share with you some of the exciting points I want to talk about today in class!

First, I am going to write the Words JESUS CHRIST on the board. Then we are going to write the things that come to our mind. I tried this out with Adam like I always do in all my little experiments and the very first thing he said was LOVE. (How Perfect!) The list continued... sacrifice, friendship, teacher, Master, Savior, the Son, Creator, advocate, elder brother, example.

We then divided the list into 2 catergories: Titles and Qualities.
A couple of years ago I looked up the word MASTER in the dictionary because I love to discover the hidden meaning in words. What I found was amazing. Christ's apostles often refereed to Him as Master and for so many reasons. This is the definition of Master from two sources. I hope you think about each section carefully, it will surprise you!

Master:
* A person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something. [creator]
* An expert
* Male head of the household [elder brother]
* Male teacher, tutor
* One whose teachings or doctrines are accepted and followed
* A victor or conqueror [Redeemer]
* One who defeats another
* A workman qualified to teach apprentices and to carry on his trade independently
* A man eminently skilled in something
* An assistant judge who takes testimony, makes a report [advocate](i love this one!!)
BUT MY FAVORITE IS...
* An ORIGINAL, which copies can be made!!!!

The rest of the lesson includes how Christ mission was set from the beginning. How Lucifer wanted to go and take away agency, The War in Heaven, and Christs qualities and how we can follow His example, work on becoming like Him, and accepting Him in order to return to our Heavenly Father.

It is going to be a talkative, open day about Jesus Christ and even though I don't have a lot to say like usual I just know in my heart it is going to be a Fulfilling, Happy and Energized topic.

Oh, I also made the ladies a farewell gift. I only have 32 so I hope the numbers are down today. I might have to give them away to the first people who arrive. It was really hard finding all the charms I needed without spending too much money and then i ran out of pearls. Oh well. They are bookmarks for their manuals. A little motivator to bring them!! They have a KEY on them to remind us of our Savior Jesus Christ, the Master Key, in which copies can me made!!!

Being Teased.

Being teased all night with murder tummy pains. I didn't sleep a wink and just tried to relax through all these great contractions! I have no objections to them!! I just don't love the idea of them disappearing in the morning :(

I looked back to this much time before J's due date on my blog and I had a very similar experience. I guess its just the time and I just gotta sit tight for a few more weeks. Hahah sit tight!!

Conference Quotes of the Week.

I decided last week that if I read a conference talk every night until my supposed due date I would finish the issue before the baby. Just another one of my count down techniques. I have like 4 calenders I cross off.. its ridiculous...

These are my favorite quotes of the week:
More Diligent and Concerned at Home, Bednar (p17)

"What we know is not always reflected in what we do".

The Love of God,Uchdorf (p21)

"Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood."

"For what we love determines what we seek"

"[Heavenly Father] answers our righteous petitions"

"The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try.... try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible- and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you."

Love and Law, Oaks (p26)

"His choicest blessings are reserved for those who obey His laws."

"God's love is so perfect that he lovingly requires us to obey His commandments because He knows that only through obedience to His laws can we become perfect, as He is"

"Our Heavenly Father 'maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust'"

"whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth"

Prayer and Promptings, Packer (p43)

"We may feel the words of spiritual communication more than hear them and see with spiritual rather than with mortal eyes."

"It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found"

"One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray"

"And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done'" - I heard a baby blessing yesterday where the dad concluded the blessing with this and it reminded me of this talk. I wonder if he is trying to pick up the habit too!

School Thy Feelings, O My Brother, Monson (p63)

"Anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything"

"No one can make us angry. It is our choice."

"'The Lord could get along very well without me and He..lost nothing by my falling out of ranks; but O what I have lost?!'"

Our Perfect Example, Eyring(p70)

"Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own."

Safety for the Soul, Holland (p88)

"The Savior warned that in the last days even those of the covenant, the very elect, could be deceived by the enemy of truth"

"No wicked man could write such a book as this (The Book of Mormon); and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so."

"[The Book of Mormon] was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days"

"'Who so treasureth up my words, shall not be deceived'- and in the last days neither your heart nor your faith will fail you"

** I hope there wasn't a pattern of all the things on my mind.. If so, I hope you enjoyed getting to know me better! lol**

New Years Party.