Skip to main content

Attending Sacrament with Family

Image result for family in the church

 September 23, I worked with the missionaries to share the Gospel with my best friend's family, the experience is so good… while the elders are teaching, my best friend's mom asked a question that really caught my feelings and attention, the question goes like exactly the title of this article.  I really see and feel the interest of this mother to attend the church with her whole family and how I wish that my parents have also this kind of mindset.

 While they are discussing I was just smiling and thinking deeply for an answer to that question and it came to my knowledge that I must be the one or the tool so that my family will attend the church with me. My family status is complicated I don’t even know if we are family, I said that because I define family as a group of people who are living together progressively with love, respect, humility, and spiritually. So this is indeed a big challenge for me, I am just a teenager and the third child of the family but here I am trying to think of matters seriously regarding what to do to make my family as one home… So, good luck to me! Hoping that I can resist temptations from the demons by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ.

 As I conceptualize, my heart pricked me to list the following that I must do so that I can encourage my family to attend the Church;
  •  I must do my part and that is to be a good brother to my siblings and to be a good son to my parents.
  •  I must be a good role model to my siblings; must keep myself fluent with respect in interacting with them.
  •  I must condemn to them the importance of giving time to read scriptures and to go to the church during Sundays.


I know on myself that I am a good person to anyone but sometimes in my family, I feel that there is a gap between us with my half brother and sister and to my mother too that keep us from one another to be not expressive in our feelings, I love them and I know they love me too. From now I am trying to remove the barriers between us, I admit that it is so hard but then I need to do this I must be the one to start, I need to be more friendly for them. I admit that I have also that pride that keeps me hating my mother and my half-siblings but then I know in myself that it is not good that’s why I am working on it trying to create a harmonious relationship with them.

From now, I feel that we are slightly close with my half-sister and hope this relationship will go stronger but for my half brother I don’t know what’s happening to us but then I believe that someday we could bond together like brothers usually do. Regarding my mother I always pray for her I understand what happened about the past; her experiences, I see that she is struggling in moving on but sometimes what I don’t understand is sometimes she actually forgets her responsibility as a mother for us. I am hoping that someday she will become more supportive to us especially to my young half-siblings who still need her care for her role as a mother.

How I wish that I can do what I listed above, please Heavenly Father I need your help, please help me to make way so that I can bring all the member of my family at the church.  


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

HEAVENLY FATHER

Sometimes we wonder if God really exists, we always question His existence in times of our trials that we always say, ‘if there is God why I am suffering all of this agony in my life’. Brothers and sisters, I testify that there is God. Look around you, you can see many beautiful things, in the land, in the water, and in the sky. What a beautiful creation, right? And everything of these is perfectly designed by God. Think about the galaxy, the constellation of stars, and how perfectly our planet earth designed. All we have is theory on how these planets were created, and no one can prove that the universe's existence has naturally occurred. Like the great things we made here on earth, we designed something, we create something because we have this God-given knowledge to put something into existence. Our activities here on earth are enough to prove that there is only one God, who designed, planned and put all the living and all great things into existence. Our Heavenl...
Post a Comment
Read more

Super Teacher

Everyone can teach, everyone is being called to teach but then just a few of us are chosen. What are your qualities then or mark as a teacher or formally future teacher for you to say that you are the chosen one for the job? What can you contribute to the teaching industry to help the students pursue their study? Or what can you sow in this industry so that people has something to reap? To be a teacher is somewhat indurated because this is next to parenthood which is very crucial responsibility wherein you are going to raise not just one but many. As a student in almost thirteen years, I observed that there is a two kind of a teacher; the teacher who loves their designated subjects to teach and a teacher who loves her/his students. Let’s talk about the two, the first mentioned loves a perfect class a perfect student, he/she likes that everyone of the class must understand the topics given by him/her and if they don’t they are being scolded physically, being embarrassed a...
Post a Comment
Read more

Be a Friend, Not a Bully

There are stages in life to undergo, and the most challenging stage is knowing and accepting ourselves. I've been at that stage where I am surrounded with my personal insecurities, such as my skin color how I wish to be whiter, my height I want to be taller, and I hate my voice the way I speak, it struggles me a lot, people always bully me of the way I speak because I really have that bad sound, they even belittle me of the things that I do and they ignore me and most of them are my relatives, it hurts me a lot they don't know that I am struggling. My confidence was affected a lot, including family problems it really affected me in meeting other people, also my studies. There are times that  I felt like I had no one to share my problems, my feelings, I am so scared to talk, to open up. I am thankful that I had friends during my college who have been there for me, they inspired me, motivated me and shared their time. Because of them, I felt a sense of belongingness, a...
Post a Comment
Read more