Hello, happy Sabbath! I have a "Sunday best" confession - I've been taking a short cut in the mornings that has helped us get out the door quicker. I asked Wes to lift up Peter's jacket to give a clue... Can you tell what it is?
Yes, those are the same pajamas he wore to bed
last night - and here we are Sunday afternoon and he still has them on underneath his pants and jacket. Haha! It has to be the thin pajamas to work right. I've done this for two Sundays now and I think it's a stroke of brilliance, although I also feel like a cheater. But with so many kids maybe I need to figure out hacks like this to survive. I get all the kids ready most all Sunday mornings while Corey usually sleeps in. He is also usually late to church, and will bring any kids that are late or slow getting ready, which is currently usually Abi. Here is another part of our usual Sunday mornings - Natalie's hair.
Her hair is naturally curly, and it looks so cute if it just air dries after she washes it, but she usually helps Peter in the tub, so she goes to bed with it still damp and this is the result after sleeping on it.
Church today was great - the Relief Society lesson was on President Eyring's talk - "Tested, Proved, and Polished" and the sister who shared the talk started by digging into the meaning behind each of those words. Testing - showing what we know. Proved - proof, evidence. Polished - and we talked about polishing rocks in a tumbler. Today at home we watched the true story of
Louis Zamperini in the movie Unbroken. We like to watch history shows and true stories on Sundays, and this one was pretty incredible. It's the story of a man who was tested
to the extreme, like WOW. I'm going to order the book that this movie was based on. As we were watching the scene where he takes a punch from every other POW to save a fellow prisoner from getting beaten, I felt like it was a good symbol of what the Savior did for us - he would rather take the hit than have us get hurt. He knew he could handle it (although when the moment came even he was shocked at how bad it was - "sore amazed" -
Mark 14:33) and he willingly did it to save us from death and hell. As Neal A. Maxwell explains in his 1985 talk "
Willing to Submit":
"In Gethsemane, the suffering Jesus began to be 'sore amazed' or, in the Greek, 'awestruck' and 'astonished.' Imagine, Jehovah, the Creator of this and other worlds, 'astonished'! Jesus knew cognitively what He must do, but not experientially. He had never personally known the exquisite and exacting process of an atonement before. Thus, when the agony came in its fulness, it was so much, much worse than even He with his unique intellect had ever imagined! No wonder an angel appeared to strengthen him! (See Luke 22:43.)"
The Savior endured so much for us.
Louis Zamperini had such strength and integrity. Even where he chose to go back to the POW camp rather than say anything disparaging against America! He is a true hero. I hope to be as faithful in my trials, to defend truth, and to show such ability to endure. Two quotes: "If you can take it, you can make it!" and the
best advice he ever received: "One minute of pain is worth a lifetime of glory". Louis Zamperini is a man who should be remembered and emulated, he's made it onto my list of heroes.
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