Easter

I think it would be wrong of me not to find a time to write something today. Today was sunny, warm, and sunday. We went to Ogden Joseph got to search for easter eggs and Mary ate a blue ring pop, Nick's sister, KC is so extremely thoughtful. She needs a star named after her or something. I couldn't figure out if she was actually divorced and who ths guy named Don was, Nick didn't know either, he was never really introduced either so we could only guess. He complimented me on Mary being so cute, which won me over. right now, I'm waiting for the older kids to get here, they are about 2 hours late right now, but that's typical, so no big deal. I learned some really cool things in church today, on thing I thought I needed to remember though I cannot recall. But, one thought I had was when or teacher read to us about how when the first colonizers came to America it was inhabited by different types but one was Japanese people. I thought about how we are so easily fooled in the world of movies into believing one thing then, Twist there is a shift and we were completely fooled and have to rewatch it with our new prospective. I thought it isn't too much to believe that things that seem impossible in our perception might shift to instantly be entirely different. For instance, to me that whole DNA thing that riled up so many "Scientists" could be easily explained bu this way, so innocently revealed. We ut the Book of Mormon and were talking about it's varipous parts. It lead some to wonder about the Jaredites, and the book of Ether. There, just like in many accounts usually glazed over as insignificant, were many times that there could not be entire populations, unless there were people already living on the American continent.

I figure that I can be easily tricked like by the film 6th sense, so it seems likely, I cannot understand rationally, or scientifically, everything in the world, so I must learn to accept truth thsat comes another way. Our lesson in RS was about Sustaining our leaders, but they spoke alot about recieving revelation and how people recieve it. I'll say more of that later, I want to touch on another thought while I'm on that subject. Our Sunday School Teacher, Jared Yeats, explained a passeage in a way I would never have thought before. He said read about a thought that Enos had being spoken to his mind, and how so many of us know we have been answered, the voice could not be mistaken for oue own idea but as inspiration because the voice is different. My two thoughts on this developed. I know something is true though no one has ever actually spoken it to me, but it is more like the way the moon effects the tide, the way I am effected by this belief. And also that was scratching at the roots of my testimony of the Book of Mormon, Various testimonie have been brilliant and added to my own, but mine was because I started to question Joseph Smith thinking that he just used Isaiah as filler, but it was more as I studied. it had a voice or tone that was familiar, it would nearly be impossible to remember exactly where he left off or recite entire chapters. But, Another story is when I asked my father for a blessing, and it gave me a stronger testimony of the priesthood because he said almost verbatim what my bishop had said in a blessing to me just a week prior, and it was not regarding anything I spoke of. Likewise, My sister has sort of "left the church" Which upsets my parents, but I know it is just part of her growing. In her Patriarchal Blessing she was told things about her person and life and I asked her if it was really likely that some strange old guy in Mississippi could know thse things about her. She agreed that it must have really been the power of God. And I figure it is just a matter of time that she will extrapolate that if the Preisthood blessings came from God, the priesthood, as found in our organization must be the real thing, and if so, then everything else that goes with it must be true. It is a start, but I must have a talent for believing in things that do not make reasonable sense, because I am not worried about her, or an other thing that cannot be explained, but I cannot understand how, but I trust it will be, I hesitate to say "come what may" because that is sort of an invitation for what may and I do not want to be tested, though I do think that I will prove to remain true to what I hope for but do not know.

My kids are here, Brandall brought a lot of food, too!

Most notably, today Lena admitted to me that she didn't believe in Santa or the Easter bunny, which aren't really necessary anyway, but I took her aside and privately asked her about it. then Brooksie got jealous and wanted to be pulled aside she asked me to speak to her in private, too. :) Gavin then wanted to be singled out next.

Mary was standing "hands free" in her bed and jumped tonight.

I'm thirsty.