Sunday February 18

It was stake conference today.

Another nice meeting.

The kids were good :)

President Keihl gave another great talk.

He first talked about the Basal Ganglia.

How that is the part of the brain that stores habits.

I didn't write down who said it, but President Keihl quoted 'We need to cultivate Holy Habits and Righteous Routines'.

Because when we develop habits, it just becomes automatic.

When we create habits that are holy and righteous, then that will keep us on the right track.

He shared a story about Michael Phelps. 

How he practiced for all kinds of situations in the water, over and over.

When it came time for him to perform another race, he was prepared.

The second he hit the water, he knew there was a problem.

There were water bubbles forming in his goggles.

Luckily, he had prepared for that.

His coach actually had him practice swimming in the dark.

So he knew the exact amount of strokes it would take to make it from one end of the pool to the other.

When he was coming up on the last lap, he hit the wall, up out of the water and took his goggles off to see the WR next to his name.

He swam the race, not being able to see a thing, and still came out with the Gold Medal!!!!

But that wasn't by chance!

He was prepared.

He had practiced so much, he had created the habit of what to do in the case of a goggle failure.

In life, if we are practicing Holy Habits and Righteous Routines, then when we get thrown those curve balls a.k.a goggle failures.....we will be prepared with how to handle it.

I just loved that! 

This evening after dinner, we had FHE.

Dad will be at work tomorrow, so we did it tonight :)

Dad showed the kids a video of a bunch of kids lined up for a race.

The kid who won, would get a $100 bill.

But the guy running the race said that before they started he was going to ask questions and if your answer was yes, then you got to take two steps forward.
Then he asked questions like, if your parents are still married, take two steps forward.

If you never had to wonder if you were going to have dinner one night, take two steps forward.

It went on like that with different questions.

Then he had the kids look around and look at where the others were.

He then said that each of these kids are where they are because of NOTHING that they did.

It was a great video to show how we just can't judge when we see people in their lives.

We don't know their story.

We don't know their struggles.

We just don't know.

So we talked to the kids about the quote:

"Treat others kind, you never know what battle they are fighting today".

Our kids are excited about having a 3 day weekend, but there are kids at their schools who are sad that it is a 3 day weekend, because that means that is one more day that they don't know where they might get their lunch from.

That is so sad to think about.

We must love, and share and just be kind!!!!!