Aid

After seeing the destruction in Haiti we wanted to help. Knowing they need money was first in my mind but for a long time we’d been planning on putting together kits for FHE, I just hadn’t made it to Mandalay to pick up the supplies for the kits.
So after seeing such horrible pain and suffering I wanted to help and I wanted my girls to feel it with something “hands on” which they could feel and do.


On Friday Night, while Erik was in St. George, the girls and I spent part of the evening putting together Infant Kits for the Humanitarian Center.

McCall set everything out in the order it needed to go in the bag. And those wonderful little hands loaded everything inside.

We put together 5 infant kits that night…

And the next morning, on Saturday, we put together 10 hygiene kits. And after read the story of the Good Samaritan and talked about Temple covenants and giving “all that we have” so that our family can be eternal.
 
So for just a little over $100 we were able to have a wonderful time together learning the gospel of Jesus Christ through service.

We can’t leave out the help from this little one!

We still need to donate some money so that further help can be given to those beautiful people of Haiti. And I told Erik I want to adopt when Estelle is five or so.
Such a great weekend…

The Problem with Procrastination

Our household is faced with a dilemma.

Do we start over?

Do we leave off in 3rd Nephi?

Skip over 4th Nephi?

Mormon? Ether? Moroni?

We are enough behind that if we take the time to finish we will be behind for this year.

Usually we always finish early, was it last year that we went a week over?

We have put ourselves in a awful situation by missing our nightly reading one too many times.

We talked about Erik and I finishing it on our own but that will then put us behind in our personal study and you just can't do that with the Old Testament or you won't finish.

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How can we teach our 11/12 year old boys the Old Testament if we are not up to date with reading it?

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Yesterday we started over... I Nephi...

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This morning I went ahead with Genesis...

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I'm heartsick over those beloved books missed.

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And heart sick our girls won't read/hear them.

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Maybe I should take a day off and gobble them up.

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Can you take a day off with four small kids who are involved with an activity (dance,violin) on top of homework Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? Oh, and Elizabeth has speech on Friday at 8am...

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But I don't drive to dance on Wed., so maybe I could spend the day reading.

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You see the spiral?

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You see what an awful situation we have placed ourselves in?

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This is the problem with procrastination!