Love is Spoken Here

Family has always been extremely important in my life. I have been blessed with the best family. Two parents who love each other and work together to raise us bunch of hooligan children. Two parents who love the Gospel more than anything and have drilled a love of the Gospel into our hearts.

Music was always playing, and still is always playing in our home, thanks to my wonderful mother. Thanks to her, I know a range of good music, classics from the 60's and 70's to good old 50's jazz to my favorite, Big Band from the 40's. Thanks to my momma I have a love and passion for music. She has paid for me to take piano lessons as a child, and now playing the piano is one of my favorite passtimes and is a huge let out for me emotionally. My mom and I share the same passion for music. We played Stephen Sharp Nelson's album "Grace" today and the first song begins with a strong cello. We both got really excited and just giddy because we both feel the power of the cello and the music that it brings. It is my absolute favorite thing to listen to music with my mom.

My dad has been my best friend from the beginning. I am such a "Daddy's Girl". He was always the one I went to to play games with, or go out in the yard and throw around a soft ball. He taught me how to ride a motorcycle and we go on short rides sometimes. He's the one who made me want to learn to play the ukulele. My dad is such an example to me of a good father. I hope I find a man who is as gentle, understanding, loving, fun and wants to spend as much time as he can with his children as my own father.
I share the same love for Disneyland as my dad. We both love looking up secrets and facts about Disneyland and look forward to our next trip over to find them, or ask about them. If you need to know anything about Disneyland, ask me or my dad. We'll be glad to impart our knowledge upon you :)

I'm especially grateful for my parents because over the last year or so, I have come to love them more and more, as my parents but also as friends. Confession, I didn't use to talk to my parents. At all. I was one of those kids who thought my parents were old and didn't understand what I was going through and I didn't really want them to know what was going on in my life. I always found it easier to talk with my sisters. But about a year ago, I told my mom a simple story about something that was happening and it sparked something. I have been going to her for everything lately. I've found out that what had happened soon became a huge part of my life and my mom had been through almost the exact same thing. She has given so much comfort to me and advice. As has my dad. He is also a Bishop and I am so grateful that I have a Bishop Daddy. He has the father's view and a Bishop's view and they both have helped me in my life. 
I love my parents so very much.

All of us kids are really close. We didn't use to be but now that we're all in the older ages, we've all become familiar with each other and we love each other. Come Sunday nights, you better believe we're all teasing each other and playing silly games that are only funny to us. I also love my siblings very much.

The reason I bring up my family, is because of a small spiritual experience I had today.

I was alone at home, sitting, playing the piano. I pulled out a bunch of my church music books, and decided to play out of the Children's Hymn Book. I played a few of my favorites, going through the book, and I came to my favorite song. "Love is Spoken Here."

As I started playing I was singing and reading the words:

"I see my Mother kneeling, with my family each day. I hear the words she whispers as she bows her head to pray. Her plea to the Father, quiets all my fears, and I am thankful, Love is spoken here.

"Mine is a Home where every hour is blessed by the strength of Priesthood Power. With Father and Mother leading the way, teaching me how to trust and obey and the things they teach are crystal clear, for love is spoken here."

I thought of my own family during the first verse, and then as I came to the second verse, I felt overwhelmed by my future family. No, it doesn't exist yet, but man oh man. I started thinking about my future home and wanting and praying that my home will be "blessed by the strength of Priesthood Power." I want more than anything to find a man who respects, honors and willingly uses the Priesthood. I want a man who loves me and our children more than anything in the world and wants to preside, provide and protect us.

I want to be a mother who loves her children with her whole heart. Who will drop everything to administer a bandaid and kisses, play a card game, color, make a sandwich, or talk with any of her kids. Especially lately, with General Conference and Women's Conference I have felt the strong need and desire to be a wife and a mother. I loved how the focus of General Conference, for me, was family. I know that the Family is central to Heavenly Father's plan. I love that I am in such a wonderful family and I know that someday in my future lies another wonderful family. I am grateful to be a woman who is striving to become as God desires so He can trust me with some of his precious children. I am so excited to teach my children about God and his wonderful plan, His Son, Jesus Christ and the love that they both have for me, and for them.

I am grateful that someday, I get the chance to find a son of God who loves me, loves God and shows that to me by learning with me, teaching me and working together with me to get to the Kingdom of God. A man is worthy to take me to the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity. I am so excited for that day.

However, I'm still young and I still need to learn a lot before becoming a wife and a mother. I have flaws that I want to overcome before I get married. But I know that whenever that day does come, I don't have to be perfect for my boy. I am a firm believer in marriage and working together to become better. I am so excited to learn and become who God wants me to be with an eternal companion.

That was a lot of things to say, but I wanted to share that with you. I wanted to share my feelings about family and how big a part it plays in my testimony.

I hope you have had a lovely lovely day my friends. I hope life is treating you well. And if not, I hope you Trust in the Lord and know that He will guide you to where you need to be. He has guided me in my life and I am and will be forever grateful that I am His daughter and that He loves me.

I bear these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

XOXO,

       Jenny

To learn more about the family go here: FAMILY

To learn more about the temple go here: TEMPLE

To listen to "Love is Spoken Here" go here: SONG

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