Updates and Steves Birthday!

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Faith Value Experience 2,

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

I have been working on Faith Value Experience 2 and this is what it says:

Discover the principles of faith taught by the mothers of Helaman’s stripling warriors.  Read Alma 56:45-48 and 57:21
45. And now I say unto you, my beloved brother Moroni, that never had I seen so great courage, nay, not amongst all the Nephites.  46. For as I had ever called them my sons (for they were all of them very young) even so they said unto me: Father, behold our God is with us, and he will not suffer that we should fall; then let us go forth; we would not slay our brethren if they would let us alone; therefore let us go, lest they should overpower the army of Antipus.  47.  Now they never had fought, they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.  48.  And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it.
Alma 57:21  Yeah, and they did obey and observe to perform every word of command with exactness; yea, and even according to their faith it was done unto them; and I did remember the words which they said unto me that their mothers had taught them.
Review what “The Family: A Proclamations to the World” says about a mothers role.
“Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. “ Children are an heritage of the Lord” (Psalm 127:3).  Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, and to teach them to love and serve one anther, observe the commandments of God, and be law-abiding citizens wherever they live.  Husbands and wives- mothers and fathers- will be held accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations”
“Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children.  In these sacred responsibilities fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners,.  Disability, death, or other circumstances may necessitate individual adaptation.”  
With a mother, grandmother, or leader, discuss the qualities a woman needs in order to teach children to have faith and to base their decisions on gospel truths.  How can these principles help you in your life today and help you prepare to be a faithful woman, wife, and mother? Record your thoughts  and feelings in your journal.

With me not being a mother, only a step-mother,  And without the hopes of becoming a mother anymore.  I still work for the qualities that are in a righteous woman.  When I think of the qualities that a mom needs to teach her children, I first feel she needs to have a strong testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  She needs to be secure in her actions of teaching her children, and to make sure what she is teaching is correct principles, and not the gospel according to herself.  She also needs to have some knowledge of the scriptures, at least be able to and does read them (preferably daily).  She needs to know and understand how the Holy Ghost works in her life, and be able and willing to act upon those whisperings of the spirit.  I also feel that she needs to spend quality time with her children,  Really be grateful for them.  All to often I have known of mothers who have not wanted to be with their children.  Other things have always taken precedence to their own children.  As being a step mother of two wonderful children, I find it hard to believe that their own mother, spends her time away from her children, and  not taking the role of being a mother seriously.  Leaving that to her own mother.  I feel that if she were really thinking of her own children, and she knew she was incapable or unwilling to take care of them she would let their father take over in that role.  But instead she is selfish.  Selfish in her own desires, and control.  Not thinking of what is best for her children.  I really wonder if she really even knows how great they are? Or even cares?