September 7, 2010

Excerpt taken from a talk I gave at the Primary training: 

This past General Conference, Elder Neil Andersen gave a talk entitled “Tell me the Stories of Jesus”, which has occupied my thoughts a lot over the past couple of months.  In the talk Elder Andersen said, “My counsel [to you] (when I hear an apostle of the Lord say counsel, my ears perk up) is to speak more frequently about Jesus Christ.  In His holy name is great spiritual power.” 

Keeping this thought in mind, I would like to share with you an experience I had just yesterday with our 3-year-old son Nathan.  As we were here setting up for this meeting, Nathan saw a nursery manual and started looking through it.  He came to this picture of Jesus healing the blind man and said, “Mom, Jesus has the priesthood, and Dad has the priesthood.”—definitely something he learned in nursery--Normally, I would say “your right, isn't that nice?” and continue doing what I was doing, but because of the Elder Andersen’s address, I took the time to sit down and talk with Nathan about Jesus using the priesthood to heal the blind man, and that Daddy can bless him with the priesthood.  He then flipped the pages, and said, “Mom, this is Jesus.”  It was the picture of Jesus healing the 10 lepers and one thanking him while the other nine joyfully ran off.   We talked about that story and the importance of giving thanks to Heavenly Father in prayers, and telling people thank you.  He then turned to the picture of the Good Samaritan, and we talked about being kind to people who we may not know, or who may be different from us.  I am grateful for this experience, and believe Heavenly Father graced me with a tender mercy yesterday to show me just how easy it is to share stories of Jesus with our children and testify of Him.