Occasionally I get this prompting to write down a story I remember from my life...and I don't. Or in church I get a prompting to bring up something at our next family gathering. I decided to start posting what I remember to do, so I can actually remember to do them.
Today's lesson was on Hyrum and Joseph Smith. What got me, was the teacher saying that she thought of her sister 6 years younger and asked herself what kind of sister would she have been if her sister had been the leader of something? Would she support the good cause and stand by her side, or would she be competitive and try to put her down so she would be the leader? We started thinking about siblings in the scriptures that were examples of each ( i.e. Lamen and Lemuel vs. Nephi, Moses and Aaron, Nephi and brother later in the scriptures). Which one would you be? I want to look this up. I want to research this. I felt that we needed to have the characteristics in our family of support and not competition. So my report will be at our next family gathering.
I thought of my sister, Joanne. She is actually 6 years younger than me. She has had her own set of trials. Trials I would never want. But she is such a positive, loving, sharing sister. Whenever I am negative/critical, and I tend to be, she always sees something positive. I am so blessed to have her as a sister. I wish we lived closer.
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Good goal. I think its easier to be supportive and not so competetive now that we're older.
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