writing my story

Last night for the Relief Society Birthday Party the lesson was focused on preserving our families history and they had several women talk about the different ways we can record our history (i.e., scrapbooking, keeping a journal, blogging, working on family genealogy and creating photo books).

After enrichment I came home feeling like I needed to do more to tell my story. I have loved looking back and reading my high school journals and sometimes I have even looked back at my first few posts just to remember what we did when we first moved to NY. I will admit I can be a bit cheesy when I write on my blog but hopefully some day my children will appreciate it and love hearing about my life(Who knows, maybe they will think I'm cool because I kept a blog). But I realized that I'm not writing enough and that my family is missing out on parts of my life. So I am making a goal to write more, not just for my future family but for me, so that I don't forget all of our adventures.

When I got home my new Ensign was sitting on the coffee table. I love when I get the Ensign, I usually spend the night reading the first presidency message and other articles. Ironically I opened the Ensign and the first article I saw was titled "My Journal, My Testimony" by Salli Hollenzer. I was thrilled, after such a wonderful lesson at enrichment and now this article I new that this was something that I needed to start doing.

In the article Salli quotes President Spencer W. Kimball as saying, "begin today and write ... your goings and your comings, your deeper thoughts, your achievements, and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies. We hope you will do this, ... for this is what the Lord has commanded, and those who keep a personal journal are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives."

I loved this quote. It's so inspiring and amazing to think that when I am pondering my thoughts and feelings and trying to put them on paper I do have the Lord in my thoughts and it helps me to realize how grateful I am for all that I have been given. It truly is a testimony builder for me.

I just wanted to share this amazing quote with all of you so that maybe it will motivate you to start writing your own story.

Thanks to all the enrichment sisters for such a wonderful evening.