Sunday best

Sunday is my favorite day of the week. I love to go to church with my family. I love to see my friends there. I love to take the sacrament and to hear the talks and to teach the wonderful teenagers and to go to Relief Society.

Today I was sitting in RS and I was thinking what an awesome organization it is. I don't know where you can sit in a room with so many diverse women, different ages, different backgrounds, different talents and still have such great love for each other, and support for one another. It is so wonderful!

Today I sat by Nicole. A young woman, almost 20, who I taught in YW a couple short years ago. She is single and her boyfriend just left for Kuwait, she is leaving for the Air Force herself in 2 months. We laughed together at Lucy running around, and shared a hymn book and I gave her a hug when another sweet sister came and asked about her boyfriend and she teared up. I sat behind Sandy, another mother of 6, and Kristy, a new mom with a 3 month old darling baby. Leading the music was the oldest sister in our ward, she's probably in her 80s somewhere yet every week she comes, she leads the music, she talks to the babies in the ward and tells the young mom's how cute they are.
We passed around a sign up sheet to feed the missionaries, and to bring meals in to a sick sister. They had a box for donations for our humanitarian aid project. We had a chance to look at a food storage order, hear about an upcoming ward social, welcome a visitor and hear a wonderful lesson taught by Delyn, who is so funny and warm and wonderful.
I love the gospel and the ward family we get to have.

I loved seeing Chad, a handsome young man home for a weekend from college and to hear about his schooling. I loved talking with Rachel about cute little Haylee, who will turn 1 in 34 days. I loved hearing the Christmas wish lists of the teens, my favorite was "I'd love a mustang for Christmas but I have to be realistic so I am just asking for a slug bug" ROFLOL Teens are SO funny. I loved watching Lucy pop bubbles in nursery, to hear the primary kids sing so loud as they practice for the program in two weeks. I love giving smiles and hugs and exchanging greeting and news. Today was so fun to talk about Dani's engagement, to tell the story and to say yes we like Greg. And more importantly "they're getting married in the temple". My favorite telling of that story today was to Tina, Chelsea, Holly and a couple other young women. They were so thrilled and she was a great example, in that moment, of what to shoot for.

I love church! I am SO grateful for Joseph Smith, that he had the courage to follow the directions he was given and to restore the true and living, complete gospel of Jesus Christ to the earth again. How lucky are we!! How blessed!!