Dear Kids,
Last night in replacement of scripture study together, your dad and I watched '17 Miracles'. The story about the pioneer 'Willie Handcart Company'.
I was telling your dad after watching it and bawling like crazy, how much more tangible and real everything is when you have kids of your own. When I was younger the pioneer stories would actually bore me. I would really think to myself, "Seriously? Do we need to hear this story again?" Even when I became an adult, they were not poignant and real until all of a sudden YOU were introduced in my life.
Have I ever had to watch my children starve to death? No. Have I ever had to watch my spouse freeze to death in the winter cold? No. Have I ever gone with out the modern conveniences that make our lives so comfortable? No. Have I ever had to worry about where I was going to stay the next night? No. Have I ever been afraid of wild animals eating my loved ones bones? No.....
Everything those people went through just astounds me. Even writing it sounds trivial. What even MORE floors me is that on the lips of those who died were sayings like, "If my posterity will keep the faith then it will all be worth it." UNBELIEVABLE that they didn't die bitter and angry that they came on the trek in the first place.
I want to make sure that you KNOW how much I LOVE those people who went through so much, and kept the faith. It is the same with the woman after WWII, when she said, "I didn't keep my testimony during those times... my testimony kept me."
I hope and pray that we all have the fortitude to do what it takes to maintain our faith in God and His Son... even to the bitter end.
I love you,
Your Mom
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