Dear sisters,
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Week of November 6 2016
Read: 2 Nephi 3-5
Our Heritage pages 26-32 (see attached PDF)
Write: Ask a family member to tell you about her/his conversion story. Write the story and your thoughts.
This week we read the final words of wisdom of the prophet Lehi, and pondered the nature of opposition in all things. You also had the chance to look at original manuscripts from the earliest days of the restoration, the "Joseph Smith Papers" available on lds.org. I found myself marveling at the tangible Joseph Smith's incredibly difficult calling as prophet, seer, and revelator, and the critical significance of these precious documents. Your own personal histories will be powerfully important to you and those who follow you as a record of your own faith.
This week we are privileged to read the reflections of Emily Garcia of the Woodland Park ward. Emily, thank you for sharing your journey with us! Emily's reflection below:
"There must needs be an opposition in all things..."
14 years ago one of my best friends got sealed in the San Diego temple. I was so excited for her. I remember praying and fasting on my mission a few years after she got sealed that she would get pregnant and I could babysit by the time I got home. She came to my sealing a few years later and babysat my first child on almost a weekly basis when we lived closer. She remained childless. I remember growing up that she always wanted to be a mom. One of the hardest parts about being a mom is seeing those you love, who really want to be moms, not have that dream realized yet.
"But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things..."
She still does not have any kids. I now have three. She is currently in the process of getting a divorce. Those "unanswered prayers" turned out to be a blessing in making her divorce simpler. It still really sucks that she doesn't have kids and doesn't have a loving husband to have those kids with. It hurts but I know that right now, she is actually happier than she's been in awhile.
"Adam fell that men might be and men are that they might have joy..."
I have faith that someday her dreams will come true because Heavenly Father wants us to be happy and to have joy. It is not right now. Mine are right now. I guess with all of this opposition it is important to remember what Solomon learned, "this too shall pass." Right now my dreams are being fulfilled. Her turn will come and I will also experience hardships. I think it will be important to remember when those come to be happy for my friend for the joy that she will have and remember the good times myself.
Sisters, it's not too late to join the journey! Begin where we are this week. There is so much to read and learn!
With love,
Marni Campbell, Michelle Quinn, Theresa Roth, and Jenni Currit
Seattle North Stake Relief Society Presidency
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