Gotta have faith...

So I am currently working on completing my Personal Progress and receiving my medallion, hopefully before the baby comes! This is something I did not do as the young woman, but as a Young Woman Leader I am able to work on now to achieve it! I'm glad because I really do want to get this and think I need to! :) So a lot of the value experiences have you write your thoughts in your journal and this is mine, so feel free to enjoy my thoughts! I might not do this with all of them, but this seemed really appropriate to share at this time anyways! Feel free to chime in!

This value experience is on Faith and focuses on preparing to be a mother! How perfect for me at this time! I have really been focusing on faith along with my husband this year and we have really been tested on this subject as of late and I'm happy to say that having FAITH in our lives is working for us! I went over a few scriptures on Helaman's Stripling Warriers and the faith that was taught to them by their mothers and I hope that my children will be able to say that their mother has taught them how to be faithful! I also read through "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" and it spells out the responsibilties of a mother...

"Her sacred duty is to rear her children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live. Mothers will be held accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations... Mothers are primarily responsible for the nuturing of their children."

What does a woman need to be able to do this? Well for me I think I would need to be a good example of all these things. And then I would need some patience, love and understanding, willingness to learn from them and the ability to change when things aren't working so well. I have good examples of this all around me luckily and I know when this time comes that it will be so hard at times (because I was hard on my mom), but through faith, prayer and sacrifice I will be able to handle this duty! I know that faith is what has gotten me through a lot this year and I look forward to sharing these experiences with my children so they know that I have lived it and that faith is something you need daily! I'm so bleseed by this gospel and knowing that I can be with my Heavenly Father again AND be able to be with my family FOREVER! What an amazing gift and I don't even have to be perfect... I just have to be trying to be!