2017 Week 45

Tonight we had the Menzies Family over for Cafe Rio salads and our yearly donut making.  We only make donuts one time a year and it is one of our favorite family traditions.  The homemade donut recipe that I got from Kenzie's mother-in-law is so amazing!  The kids enjoyed playing and they ate so many donuts that I'm surprised they aren't all sick to their stomachs.

We spent all day Saturday up in Big Rapids for Brooklen's hockey tournament.  They lost both Saturday games, but I always love watching Brooklen play so I was glad that we made the trip to be with him.  Last night, Brooklen and Rob also got to go with his team to a Michigan State/Ferris State hockey game.

This week Hurley also had another appointment with her counselor, Laurie.  I was very excited to learn that she went back with Laurie alone and that she talked quite a bit with her.  In the past, she has had a hard time opening up.  I am so happy that she has been making a lot of progress.  It is so good to see her smiling again!

2017-Week 44

I was asked by the Stake RS presidency to conduct an experiment in my life over the next 4 months that would help me grow closer to Christ.  I've thought about this and one thing I want to focus on is becoming more like him.  We learned about some Christlike attributes in RS a couple of weeks ago and I've been thinking a lot about them.  The last couple of months have been a little darker than normal for me. . . dealing with helping Hurley overcome some anxiety issues,  dealing with my own worries about everything, facing a lot of responsibilities, and overall just trying to be a good mom and wife and remain positive, being everyone's cheerleader.  As we were learning about Christ's attributes, I wondered if maybe I strove to be a little more like him, and focused on him a little more in my life, if maybe I could bring more light in to my life.

I'm still not completely sure all of the attributes I'm going to study and work on, but I know the first one is going to be faith.  My testimony could certainly always be stronger.  I know I struggle with doubt in my life.  It starts off as doubting my abilities, my thoughts, etc and then sometimes translates in to bigger things.

So, this week I'm going to study faith.  I'm going to study faith in Jesus Christ's life and I'm going to read some general authorities comments on faith.  To help apply this in my life, I'm going to say more personal prayers.  I think if I want the confirmations of truth, I need to try harder to openly converse with my Heavenly Father.