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I am so excited to start this journey with all of you. I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend. I love my Savior, Jesus Christ, and want to create a home where my children can feel of His love. A recent speaking assignment in sacrament meeting caused me to really contemplate on what things need to be happening in our home to help our children develop a strong relationship with and testimony of our Savior. I felt guided to six things.  

Weekly family home evening. A night once a week where we can gather our children together and learn about our Savior and his teachings. Over the past almost seven years of our marriage we have done our very best to not miss this weekly tradition. The habit has been there but the quality of the experience has been lacking often times.

In this most recent general conference, President Nelson stated, "I exhort you to study the messages of this conference frequently -even repeatedly- during the next six months. Conscientiously look for ways to incorporate these messages in your family home evenings, your gospel teaching, your conversations with family and friends, and even your discussions with those not of our faith. Many good people will respond to the truths taught in this conference when offered in love. And your desire to obey will be enhanced as you remember and reflect upon what you have felt these past two days." (President Russel M. Nelson, Let Us All Press On, April 2018) As a result I have decided to create lesson plans each week that are focused around one of the talks from the most recent general conference and plan to post them here. 

Daily personal and family prayers and scripture study. Family prayers and scripture study can be a little crazy around here most days. I imagine that this will always be the case as we have young children. Just the same, my desire is to find ways to make scripture study with my little one more engaging and my own personal prayers and scripture study more meaningful. I will share what is and is not working for us and hope you will do the same so we can all learn together. 

Participate in Family History. Some of the angels I am referring to when I say mothering amid angels are our ancestors. There is so much power that comes as we learn about and serve our ancestors through temple work. My goal is to come up with ideas to help my children become enthusiastic about family history while they are young so they will continue to do it throughout their lives. 

Incorporate the teaching found in The Family: A Proclamation to the World. In a talk given by President Dallin H. Oaks in the October 2017 general conference entitle, The Plan and the Proclamation, he stated, "The gospel plan each family should follow to prepare for eternal life and exaltation is outline in the Church's 1995 proclamation, "The Family: A Proclamation to the World." Parent are often saying that they wish children came with an instruction manual. Well, I think this is it. Here at Mothering Amid Angels we will be focusing on incorporating this great document into our family little pieces at a time. 

                                                                      

Establish righteous traditions. Most of my memories as a child are centered around a traditions we had. They are something that united us as a family then and even now as we are older. Some were centered around holidays and many were around the kitchen table. I look forward to establishing traditions for my own little family and I cannot wait to hear what traditions you all have. 

Finding joy in the day to day. Life can get kind of monotonous as times as we get wrapped up in routine of the day. Often time, I admit, this causes me to become a bit short tempered and grumpy. This lead me to the idea of doing something each week that is a little bit out of the ordinary to mix things ups. Let's call it the Finding Joy in the Journey Challenge.

I created this blog has been created to share my ideas of how we are currently, how we are planning to, and how others have incorporated these six things into our families lives. Joseph Smith stated, "If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates." Let us join together in our efforts to be mothering amid angels!

*Disclaimer: I want to make it perfectly clear that I am not perfect and I am so far from being the perfect mother that it can be quite discouraging at times. I have been contemplating starting this blog for quite some time but my realization of my shortcoming has held me back, until now. I realize that I have been blessed with talents for creating activities and ideas that can bless my family's lives as well as others. I figured if I was going to put the effort into coming up with the ideas anyway I may as well share them so other might be able to benefit as well.