I am now working on
Individual Worth Value Experience 4
You are preparing now to fulfill a unique mission on the earth. Read Doctrine and Covenants 88:119. In your journal make a list of your hopes and dreams for your future home, family, and education and some important things you would like to accomplish in your life, including becoming a wife and mother. Then write a plan that will help you achieve your goals. Share this plan with a family member, leader, or friend.
So, this experience has three major parts:
One--Read Doctrine and Covenants 88:119
Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God; - Doctrine and Covenants 88:119"
First of all, I should say that I like this scripture. I have it hanging on a wall in my home. Mormons are a temple-oriented people. We
build temples,
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| The San Diego Temple |
We believe that
our homes are sacred and can be like a temple,
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| Home Sweet Home |
and we believe that
we, our physical bodies, are temples.
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| An especially cute one! |
So...I love this scripture because I have a lot of work to do as a mother to make my home and body into a temple, and this scripture provides a formula of what a temple, or house of God, is like.
Two--List of Hopes and dreams for my future home, family, and education
At first, this seems like a silly thing to do since I'm 35, I'm in the throes of motherhood, and it seems like I don't have as much of a future as I did 20 years ago.
But there is always time to hope, think, and plan for the future, so this is great.
My hopes for my future (and let's say current) home
- It will be clean
- It will be a place that is full of the Spirit
- It will be a place that nurtures anyone who enters into it. - Keep in mind, nurture means to nourish, to enable and promote growth. I hope that whether it is a family member, friend, or occasional visitor, they will feel nourished--in mind, body, and spirit, when they come into my home
- I want my home to be a place full of love, light, and peace
My hopes for my future (and current) family
Above all, I hope that my family will come to know the Savior. I hope that my children will develop a testimony. I hope other members of my family will also come to know and accept the gospel. I hope that one day I will have the chance to be sealed to parents. I hope that I will be able to see my children go on missions, get married in the temple, and have children of their own. I hope that at some point in the future, Homey and I will be able to serve a mission together as a couple.
I hope that we will be able to find
true happiness.
My hopes for my future education
I hope to continue learning every day. I know that every day
can be a learning experience if I'm willing to be aware of my surroundings and what the Lord is trying to teach me through practical experience.
Not only that, but I really would like to go to Graduate School one day. I would also like to learn to speak Italian, French, and Spanish fluently. It would also be awesome to learn to speak German.
I also want to continue to strengthen my spiritual knowledge and education. I hope to be a life-long learner when it comes to the gospel.
Three--A plan to Achieve Goals
This might sound like an oversimplification, but I assure you it is not. As I look at my goals and hopes for my future home, family, and education, I realize that many of them are lofty and will take years to accomplish. There are many long-term, short-term, broad, and specific plans that will be made. For now, I will say that the main plan I have is to:
- Pray for inspiration - I believe that if I have a prayerful heart and pray very specifically about these goals, the Lord will help to inspire me so I can accomplish them.
- Read my scriptures for guidance--I know that the Lord speaks to me through the scriptures. Studying the scriptures will give us an added measure of the Spirit, which is exactly what I need to be able to do the things that I've listed in this blog post.
- Attend the temple often--It strikes me that The temple is the model for our homes and our selves. If I want to make my home, family, and life like the house of the Lord, then it is a good idea to attend often. Not only that, but we often open ourselves to more guidance and revelation when we go to the temple.
So...there you have it. This has been a nice exercise. Have you completed Individual Worth Value Experience 4? What was your experience like? What did you learn? What are you going t do?
-Choco
