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Attending Sacrament with Family

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 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.  


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