Monday, July 11, 2016

9 Pound Diapers (Monday, July 11, 2016)

Dear Mom and anyone else who reads this, 

Well, it's been another week! Quite honestly speaking, it was kind of a "9 pound diaper" week. Here's a quick summary of where the diaper analogy comes from: Someone spoke at one of our meetings last week and shared the story of his grandson who has a stuffed frog that he simply adores. When the little boy throws you his frog, it means he trusts you. This little boy finally started to trust one of the people who had moved into his house, and so he threw him the frog. Then one time after his mother had changed a monumentally smelly diaper (that must have weighed at least 9 pounds according to the storyteller), this little boy instead of carrying it to the garbage can he turned around at chucked it at the person who had gained his trust. After sharing this very humorous story with us, the presenter suddenly got seriously, turned to the audience, and said, "ARE YOU READY FOR WHEN LIFE THROWS A 9 POUND DIAPER AT YOU? ARE YOU GOING TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT AND ADAPT AND GET THE JOB DONE ANYWAY?!" 

Moral of the story, life threw a couple of smelly 9 pound diapers at us this week. Some of them were especially stinky and painful emotionally because they involved people that I dearly love, but we're doing our best to handle it and do what Heavenly Father needs us to do anyway. I know that everything will work out in the end though, and I'm grateful for a few glimpses of sunlight that peeped through during the week. One of them was a really tender lesson in which we were able to testify to the young child of someone we were teaching that the Plan of Salvation is real and that he really will see his loved ones again. I don't think we ever give children enough credit for how much they truly understand and feel. Another ray of sunshine was a family that came to church for the first time in a very long time. Moments like those make the other ones more bearable. Anywho, I'm looking forward to a new week and I have a feeling it's going to be a good one! Hope everyone is doing well!


~Hermana Burton

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