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Pots and Pans/Joy in Covenant Keeping

As I was typing upstairs I kept hearing a loud banging sound coming from downstairs.  As I came down to investigate this is what I found:


Oh what fun he was having.  I think if he wouldn't have heard the camera click he would have climbed in the cabinet.  He is truly a 1 year old.

Today I continued the talk by Linda K. Burton, Relief Society General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (click here to read/listen to this talk)

Elder Holland movingly suggested, “I am not certain just what our experience will be on Judgment Day, but I will be very surprised if at some point in that conversation, God does not ask us exactly what Christ asked Peter: ‘Did you love me?’”24 Tonight I invite each of us to evaluate how much we love the Savior, using as a measure how joyfully we keep our covenants. The Savior said, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”25 How we all need a regular manifestation of the Savior in our daily lives!--I do love my Savior and Heavenly Father and am so grateful for them. But I feel that I keep my covenants more out of duty and obligation than out of Joy. This is something I will pray for. I will pray to find joy in keeping my covenants.

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  1. Oh, I really giggled at Michael pulling out the pots and pans!! I remember I had a drawer in the kitchen when you were a baby. I kept the cookie cutters and such in it. One day daddy came home and you were pulling out every little thing from the drawer and tossing them on the floor. He was a little perturbed and went to fix the problem. I cut him off short saying, "Hey darling, she is busy so I can be busy getting your dinner on!" Then he laughed and walked away and I finished getting his dinner on the table.
    Life is fun.
    Mother

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