Filming With The Church

Dear Kids,

Today and yesterday we were filmed by a church crew from the video/audio department.

What a great experience it was! They are working on a project for return missionaries and I found out about it through a cousin who sent me the form to fill out. After sending in the form and a video of myself I received a call about 5 days later from Brady, a producer there. He said that he was impressed with how comfortable I was on camera and wanted to come down to do a shoot with me, interview me and do some filming with the family as well. I told him about Brent and his experience coming home from a mission and how it was different from mine, and Brady wanted to interview Brent as well.

So they came down to St. George and on Friday they came over to our house and filmed us doing interviews for about 3 hours, we went to lunch with the crew, then came back and they did filming again with the kids for about an hour. Then today (Saturday) we got up early and went out to Snow Canyon and did some filming of me painting right on the edge of a cliff over there (which was super cool) and then Brent came out with the kids and we did more filming with hiking and climbing with the kids as well.

The crew was fun and we were able to hang out with them a bit. More than anything, it was the beginning of what (I think) my patriarchal blessing talks about with bearing my testimony and having people all over the world hear my testimony and my husbands. The spirit has been poking me throughout this whole experience that Brent and I need to bear our testimonies more... and in a bigger way. The spirit has also been really talking to me about how I need to bear my testimony more and learn how to tell my story better.

There are so many things that have happened in my life, and I need to learn how to articulate the story around them better. It will take practice, which is why I need to get up and just talk about it more often. I want to pray for this and see how the Lord can open the doors for this to happen. I want to bear my testimony of HIM. I want to... I need to. The Lord has given me a magnetic personality that people respond to and he gave that to me so that I could spread His gospel. I am learning slowly but surely.

Writing my stories down on the blog with help me. That is what I want to do... use my journaling time to tell the story of my life.

I love you!

Your Mom