Hey everyone! This week has been wonderful! Sister Wilcox and I are still having a ton of fun together!
We had an interesting experience this week. This past Saturday we had the opportunity to help decorate/clean up after 2 birthday parties. It wasn't until after the parties that I realized something. I love both families dearly, but homes where people are keeping their covenants and reading scriptures/ praying/having family home evening, feel completely different from the ones that aren't doing that. I hadn't recognized before that that was a lot of the difference. In the first home I walked in and immediately felt safe and comfortable and I could relax. The room felt like some kids had just played really hard, had a wonderful time and left completely satisfied. The decorations were simple and inexpensive.
We had an interesting experience this week. This past Saturday we had the opportunity to help decorate/clean up after 2 birthday parties. It wasn't until after the parties that I realized something. I love both families dearly, but homes where people are keeping their covenants and reading scriptures/ praying/having family home evening, feel completely different from the ones that aren't doing that. I hadn't recognized before that that was a lot of the difference. In the first home I walked in and immediately felt safe and comfortable and I could relax. The room felt like some kids had just played really hard, had a wonderful time and left completely satisfied. The decorations were simple and inexpensive.
The second home was starkly different. A lot of time had been spent on putting decorations around the house so that the everything looked perfect, almost as if the room was taken straight from a magazine. Perfectly spotless, perfectly organized....perfectly....perfect. It was almost superficial. The house felt stressed, I felt on guard and my spirit recognized that something was off.
My brain hadn't realized any of this until after the fact, even though my spirit had unconsciously been recognizing it. And now that I'm aware of it, it makes me even more grateful for the priesthood and for growing up in a home that strived to do their best with scripture study, and prayers and family home evening.
We had another interesting experience this week. We were eating dinner at a ward members home and she was telling us about how she had been in a religion class once and the teacher had started talking about self esteem and how a lot of people nowadays do not have a good self esteem. It's because they base it off of things that they do not have control over. For example, they say that they have high self esteem because they are pretty. But...that isn't something that someone really has control over. If we focus our self esteem on things that we DO have control over, then we will be so much happier. The teacher suggested things such as, "I have a high self esteem because I keep the commandments" or "I have a high self esteem because I go to church every Sunday". I just thought it was a really cool way of describing self esteem and it makes sense when you look out at the world today and you realize that not many people are happy and its because they're focusing way too much on the material things.
Something kind of funny happened this week as well... we were out talking to a woman outside her house and we saw her teenage daughter through the window. Apparently the daughter thought that it was hilarious that we were talking to her mom because she started taking "selfies" with us in the background lol I thought that was pretty funny.
Well...thaaaat is about it!! Have a wonderful upcoming week!!! love you all! :)
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