Goals

“I’m sure many of you are setting aside time today to write down your resolutions for the coming year. May I make a few suggestions?

First, resolve to strengthen your spiritual foundation. This may involve setting a specific time and place to study the scriptures, praying more often, making temple worship a bigger priority, and letting God prevail in all aspects of your life.

Second, resolve to be kind to others. When the Savior Jesus Christ visited the Americas, as recorded in the Book of Mormon, one of the first things He taught was the need to eliminate contention in our lives. So, please be compassionate, be understanding, be slow to judge, and be quick to forgive.

Third, resolve to be resolute. The Lord loves effort. The Lord loves consistency. The Lord loves steadfastness. While we surely will come up short from time to time, our persistent efforts to hear Him and follow the inspiration He gives us will help us to “wax strong in the Spirit” (Mosiah 18:26).

May God bless you, my dear friends, and may this be a wonderful year of purpose and possibilities for all of us.

President Nelson”

I wasn’t going to make any New Years resolutions but then the prophet suggested these. When he suggests I follow. At least that is my sincerest intention. 

Today was the first day the kids were back in school. My first assignment for them was to write a paragraph setting some goals for themselves. I suggested they think of these four areas of life and come up with what they want to work toward: physical, social, intellectual and spiritual. (Sound familiar?) the gospel works it’s way into my lessons very easily. 

Then we started our new story for the week “the Jacket”. 

All of my lunch friends are out with Covid:( We have four in our group that meet for lunch (in the “teacher’s  lounge”, a classroom with a microwave in it) each day. We talk and eat. Other teachers also come but not every day. Sometimes we have 8-9, sometimes just the 4 of us. Anyway. They all are out. CraZy. 

We also have a lot of cases in our ward.