Trying to do better!

Hello and Happy New Year! Well of course it is time to try to do better. You know New year's resolutions, we all make them. I am no different, every year I plan to work out more, eat healthier, procrastinate less. This year I have decided if I can just do a little better than last year I will have succeeded. Since last year at this time I was just starting a pregnancy, I figure it should be really easy to do better with all the physical aspects of life. To tell you the truth the things I really, really want to do better at this year are much more important to me than fitting into my favorite jeans. What I have decided to do better at this year is doing the things that the Lord wants me to do. I feel a great need to nurture the testimonies of my family and so last night I began. I have always struggled with how to teach my kids the gospel. Well not exactly how to teach it to them but how to make it important to them. I have been praying for help with this and I believe I have been sent some help. I was not given a revelation, or a vision or anything extraordinary. I have just had a little extra inspiration as I have read the church magazines and listened to sharing time in primary. Through this inspiration I have come up with a game plan for Family Home Evening. I think that my plans will help my family to come closer to our Heavenly Father this year and have a better spirit in our home. Here it is, it is simple. We are starting the year by learning about and memorizing the 13 Articles of Faith. After we have completed that we will be learning the stories from the Scriptures by using the Gospel Art Kit. Each picture has a story on the back and they will help us to learn gospel principles and the stories that reinforce them. I am so excited,we started last night with Article of Faith #1. It went very well and we had a great family home evening. We also played "Don't Eat Pete", it was a fun just being together. If anyone is interested I have a great resource for teaching the Articles of Faith, that I am more than willing to pass on. Good luck to all in the next year and with all the things in your life that you want to do better at. P.S. I am also going to do better with this blog, next learn how to post pictures. If you have easy to follow instructions on how to do this please share.