The van Ormer View: Youth Fireside

Monday, July 26, 2010

Youth Fireside

Question: How many people can I squish inside my cozy 2 bedroom home . . . ?

The Answer: 25-30 good-looking LDS youth (and leaders, too!)

I was responsible for putting on the Sunday night fireside for the Youth. It was a lot of FUN! I had a particularly exciting topic: A Return to Virtue. It was all about chastity and purity, a very thrilling topic to discuss with our latter-day youth! I LOVE the youth in our ward. They are so wonderful. Amazing, they are. Just amazing!

We had a very blunt and straightforward discussion about purity and then I showed a video (Mormon Message) by Sis. Dalton: Return to Virtue. One of my young women told me, "You made a very uncomfortable topic, comfortable." That made me very happy. :-) That was my goal!

Look at all those cute faces!

Gathering in the kitchen for cookies (my camera REALLY stinks inside, in the dark?)

I was SO grateful for the AC unit that my friend, Erin, let me borrow. We did not roast alive in the 100 degree heat!

It was a lovely evening. The future is in good hands. Our young people are good and powerful. I am so grateful to be a part of their lives!

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Who am I?

I am a wife and a mother, my two favorite and most distinguished titles. I have four lovely children who keep me from being vain and selfish. I spent most of my life living in Anchorage, Alaska -- where I found my love, Charles. I enjoy a great many things, and I am good at a few things. I love to sing, run, have deep conversations, bake, do family history, blog, be with family, be with friends, have quiet time (whatever that is?), teach, rearrange furniture, watch movies, go for Sunday walks, attend the temple, observe people (Yes, I am watching YOU!), and I enjoy pondering the mysteries of the World. I love living on this beautiful Earth that God has created. I know who I am and I am grateful to know it. I am a child of God -- and so are you!

Mothers

God bless you, dear friends. Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days. I hope that when that occurs you will not be led to exclaim as did King Lear, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” (King Lear, I, iv, 312). Rather, I hope that you will have every reason to be proud concerning your children, to have love for them, to have faith in them, to see them grow in righteousness and virtue before the Lord, to see them become useful and productive members of society. If with all you have done there is an occasional failure, you can still say, “At least I did the very best of which I was capable. I tried as hard as I knew how. I let nothing stand in the way of my role as a mother.” Failures will be few under such circumstances.

-Gordon B. Hinckley