Just another Sunday...

So this mornings festivities began with me being a little bit more impatient than normal...being a little snappy with my family and just not being as kind as I should. Then Corban melted my heart as I was putting his dress shirt on and he said, "Dad, you're awesome!" Love that kid! Doesn't get better than that!

It was a nice day today so the kids wanted to walk to church. I stuffed Taft and Corban into the wagon and Audrey into the stroller and we started on the long journey to our church building.  Trenton started lagging behind so I started to threaten that we would go back home and not walk if he didn't keep up. Then he informed me that he left his scriptures at home and needed to go back and get them. I told him if we went back to get them that we wouldn't be able to walk. He caught up and we started off again. He lagged behind once again and then informed me, "Dad, The Lord wants me to go back and get my scriptures." Love that kid!

Although I should have been overjoyed that my son has such righteous desires, I was more out out that I had to walk all the way back home again and was a little frustrated. We drove to church after getting home and getting his scriptures. Looking back now, I wish that I would have been a better father and encouraged his goodness rather than being upset with him for delaying us.

This afternoon the boys were building some Legos and so I joined in the fun for a few minutes. We had some Lego ninja dudes and we started into a little "war" with them. Soon enough one of the ninjas died of course. Taft used the doctrine of the resurrection to his advantage and said something to this effect, "now Heavenly Father sent my ninja back from heaven and so now he can't die anymore because after we get resurrected we can't die anymore." Love that kid!

Trey and I had a little tender moment during sacrament meeting. Maybe I am expecting him to grow up too fast but I have been trying to help him understand lately that he needs to be mor intent and reverent during sacrament meeting. My main point with him lately has been that he is getting baptized in August and needs to be ready to make that commitment to Jesus. Today he was struggling a bit and so I had him read Mosiah 18:8-10 which describes the baptismal covenant. He didn't understand it super well and so I whispered some of the meanings to him and we talked briefly about why it was so important to be reverent during the meeting. He was marvelous the rest of the time. Just shows the power of the word! The scriptures/the words of God have the power to change lives and change the way we think and act and live. So grateful to have them to help us in parenting! So grateful for all those who have given so much so that we could have God's word with us today! Don't know where I would be without it!