Cody's Primary Talk from Last Sunday

Today I’m talking about how families are blessed when they follow the prophet. This is a story about when my dad was three years old:

One day my dad asked his mom why their family wasn’t reading the scriptures every day if the prophet had asked them to. From then on they read the scriptures together every day. Their family was, and continues to be, blessed for their obedience to the Lord.

Some of the things that families can do to follow the prophet are: reading scriptures together, having FHE, praying, and being kind and helpful. In the April 2014 General Conference Pres. Monson said:

“Some of our greatest opportunities to demonstrate our love will be within the walls of our own homes.”

Two of my ancestors, John Chapman Duncan and his wife, Teresa Farrell, were Mormon pioneers that traveled west. The prophet asked them to settle a new area in Utah and they went obediently. When they first arrived they had to live in a dugout until they could build a home. The dugout had a dirt floor, dirt ceiling, and dirt walls. Once their house was built, they were able to move in. On their first night in their new house there was a huge rainstorm. In the morning they realized that the rain had caused the nearby creek to rise and the dugout had caved in and washed away. Because they were obedient and doing what was right the Lord was able to bless and protect their family.

I know that as we follow the prophet we become spiritually and physically safe and we are greatly blessed.

Testimony

In the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Mother's Day, Field Day, and Other Happy May Days

On one of their days off, the kids gathered sticks from the forest behind our house and made a campsite. They pretended they were cooking ribs on their teepee campfire while I did yard work.

 The kids earned an ice cream party by filling this jar with 300 pom poms. In order to put a pom pom in the jar they had to say, "I'd love to!" any time we asked them to do something. It only took them one week to do it and they finished on Mother's Day! That was an awesome present!

 

 On Mother's Day I got up, took a shower, and came back to my room to find this fun surprise. A "poster" from Cody and Kylee (made with a donation bag from the recycle bin and junk mail envelopes they had collected). They had taped it on my wall above my bed. The envelopes say "Happy - Mother's - Day - From Cody and Kylee and the little blue sticky note says "Happy Mother's Day We wish you a good time xoxo". 

Kylee made a poem at school for me...

My Mom Is...

My mom is awesome at cooking

My mom is great at helping me

My mom is very good at making me happy

But best of all, I like her the best

My mom is the greatest of all

Love, Kylee

 And Cody made this for me at school. It's two hands that stretch out and in the middle it says "I love you this much x infinity". It was supposed to say "I love you this much" but he told me that that wasn't enough so he added the "times infinity"

 Each finger has something he is grateful for about me: Being helpful to our family, letting me do things on my own, being awesome, helping me when I'm sick, loving me.

The other hand says: giving me water, buying me clothes, providing me with food, helping me with my homework, giving me shelter.

 

At the end of May the kids had Field Day at school where they get to spend the whole day outside doing relays and games. I volunteered at one of the stations with a friend. The kids ran non-stop and had a blast. I was glad that Livy could play at her friend, Henry's, house so that I could have fun with them too.

 One Sunday we grilled burgers. Steve put the girls on the railing between our deck and Miss Barbara's and they had a good time talking to her while Steve and I prepared dinner.

 These girls love our neighbor and love to talk to her any chance they get.

 This weekend we're taking a quick trip to Kirtland and then birthday season officially begins at our house. Better go so I can get ready!