After two failed tries to upload a video I've decided I wanted to post about something else. :P I'll have to try again another time. It was a video of Leah asleep at the high chair. Anyway, as an update on us, we had a nice weekend, which isn't over yet. We went on a date Friday night and visited with my mother-in-law who will be visiting for another week, she babysat for us. And on Saturday I took my first turn mowing the grass while Set was at work. This would have been impossible without the help of my neighbor, Tyler who got it started up for me. And I learned that it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. Actually it's quite like vaccuming. Then after a lazy sort of Saturday and a quick trip to the library and the grocery store I got to go to the general Relief Society meeting. It was a well needed up-lift and very inspiring. President Thomas S. Monson shared a quote: "If you judge people, you have no time to love them"-Mother Teresa. Then he talked about Charity: the pure love of christ. He said "[charity] manifests itself when we are tolerant of others and lenient toward their actions; the kind of charity that forgives; the kind of charity that is patient. Needed is the charity which refuses to find satisfaction in hearing or in repeating the reports of misfortunes that come to others, unless by so doing the unfortunate one may be benefitted. The American educator and politician Horace Mann once said, “To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down; it is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others." After the broadcast we had pie and icecream. It was very nice, and it was even nicer to come home to my family, all of whom were sleeping except for Laurel when I walked in the door. To day we went to church, and tonight we expect to hear from family and enjoy a good visit at Mom's. Hope all of you are well.