I delight in wise words and best friends.

I have the world's best friends.  I am so blessed.  One of my best friends, just happened (For the record, I don't believe in coincidences) to be so timely in sending me the following quote.  It couldn't have come at a better time.  

"My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle."

President Monson R.S. Broadcast Sept. 2007

I delight in family history.

Today at church, we talked about Elder David A. Bednar's talk from October General Conference entitled, "The Hearts of the Children Shall Turn."

I remember going to a class about how to get started doing family history work and how to use PAF files. As my memory remembers (Craig, correct me if I'm wrong) Craig and I went to this class together during high school. He has always loved learning more about the relatives and needed to learn something more about how to use PAF files so he could store all the information he had somewhere besides his head. The course was an hour long and a good portion of that hour was used describing to the other participants (many generations older than us) how to turn on the computer, how to open files (including how to "double click" and how a mouse worked), and how to close files using the little red 'x' up there in the corner. Needless to say, I got a little bored, and while I learned enough to know how to get started, I realized that at the rate around me, family history work was never going to get done. No offense intended to those of the older generation who do family history work. I am so appreciative of your passion, desire, and motivation to learn things (like how to use a computer) that are foreign to your generation. However, in that family history class I took so long ago, I had an epiphany moment...my generation is being trained how to do this, and they don't even know it! Computers, and buttons, typing and searching is not foreign to us. Most of us could text or type with our eyes closed. We were made to do this work.

As the years have passed since that first epiphany moment the feeling I had then has only been confirmed. Elder Bednar says in his talk,

It is no coincidence that FamilySearch and other tools have come forth at a time when young people are so familiar with a wide range of information and communication technologies. Your fingers have been trained to text and tweet to accelerate and advance the work of the Lord—not just to communicate quickly with your friends. The skills and aptitude evident among many young people today are a preparation to contribute to the work of salvation.

I delight in just how mindful our Heavenly Father is of the skills we need to develop to carry on his work in every capacity.

I delight in the unexpected life.

Tonight Sister Kristen M. Oaks (wife of Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) came to speak to my relief society. All day I had been teetering with going or not going. But I decided a long time ago, that I was going to go. So I did. And boy am I glad I did.

I walked in to a beautiful table of refreshments for after--delicious looking cupcakes. So, I'm headed into the chapel, I turn the corner, and there is 1 person standing in the foyer...Elder Oaks. Imagine my surprise. I say, something...I don't even know what, it caught me so off guard. All I remember was thinking...you spoke to me in the MTC. Anyway, he greeted me and I him, and he thanked me for coming. He thanked me...I thanked him back!

So that was neat! :) And his wife...well she is really fantastic. She recently wrote a book called A Single Voice. She spoke to us of our experiences we now face and potentially will face as single sisters in the church, for however long our 'single-ness' lasts. I was so appreciative of the words she spoke on many levels, if you want more details about the talk, I'll happily tell you all about it but for now...I'll share the inspiration that spoke so powerfully to my heart.

The unexpected life is no less a life.

And isn't that true. And won't it continue to be true...for whatever life holds for each of us. Whatever it is...its a life, we signed up for this!!! :)