Power in love

The world thinks that power comes from fear. If people fear the mob or the bully they will give them money and bow to their sick wims. God is not a God of Fear. He is a god of love. In RS today we talked about missionary work and about how we fear sharing the gospel. this scripture came up and I LOVE it!!

2 Tim. 1: 7
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

I felt myself be filled by the power all the way down to my finger tips and all the way into my deeptest guts:D. When we love something we are bound to it. We will do anything for it. We will sacrifice and sacrifice willingly and gladly. I am reminded right now of Satins plan. To force us into righteousness. That would have cheated Heavenly Father out of our love. He wants us to Love him and to feel bound to him not by fear or by force (both far inferior) but by love. Love is POWERFUL!! That is why motherhood is so freaking awesome! We love with a love that is so strong so sound that it is a physical compulsion to sacrifice for our children. If Satan can get his hands on mothers then he can get his hands on the most powerful force on earth. We as mothers have to be strong. We have to teach our children to love and to be righteous. The way to do that is by love. Ive seen over and over kids forced into keeping the rules. Just biding their time till they can be free and then making horrible choices then. Man if only they had been given choices earlier to learn how it feels to make mistakes and to feel the joy of repentance or reap the benefits of their early wise choices. Nobody wants to be forced into things. I feel like im rambling now but it really does feel amazing when your kids do what you ask because they love you and not because they fear you. I can feel the power in love and I am claiming it for my kids and for my family and friends. I promise to love as much as I can when ever I can!! I want to glorify God!! what a wise awesome beautiful plan he has for us. I feel like I learned something new about love today. Im really greatful for this blog:D...im learning so much!

mmmmmlooovee:D...thanks Lindsay for the quote!!!

A friend of mine sent me this aweswome Quote and it hits Charity right on the head:D haha that sounds funny. Its the perfect quote for this blog:D Thankyou Lindsay P.:D Shes just a rad person and mother.


"Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don't judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone's differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn't handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another's weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other" - Marvin J. Ashton

Oh the wisdom in having Charity. The world will be so nice when we are all filled with this kind of love:D. Cant wait. We are all working on it now in our own ways. Praying for it...listening for the promptings...studying and so on but wont it be so nice when we dont have the temptations anymore when we have finally all been filled with this kind of accepting unconditional rational love:D..so I know you love me and you know I love you and we all just SEE eachother:D...sometimes I think really seeing someone is the same as loving them. To see and know they are daughters and sons of the same guy we are a daughter or son of. Seriously if we all saw eachother I think we would be a lot nicer:D...lol...Oh boy...it will be so nice right. I know I feel like that some of the time and im not saying i dont want to work on it im just saying im gunna bask in the the glory baby...bask.:D..mmmmmmglory...mmmmmmmlove....mmmmmcheetoes...huh? hahah ...love Mandy

Above All Things

14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

I can move a mountain but if I dont have charity all the faith in the world means nothing. I love how the two commandments are both about Love. Love God and love your neighbor. If I put love above all things then everything else will fall into place. I wonder though. If you need faith and hope and meekness and lowlines of heart to have Charity and the only way to go about getting it is by searching out these things or can you pray for it and have it. I think there are moments where I have felt real charity. and it was beautiful. It is a constant struggle to keep that frame of mind. To put love above irritation with my kids. To put love above my pride. To see someone or a situation that i dont agree with in the light of love. It is not easy but...its seems that when I am full of love it is easy. K does that even make sense? its like running I think kinda. Like when you have eaten the right foods and practiced and drank enough it is easier to run the race. hmm dont know just kinda thinking out loud here. maybe its more like ooooh i dont know...haha. i have a crying zion here:D...gotta run.

scooter:D

Bella is officially schooting:D..holy smokes!! she is four and a half months here. Isnt that a little early?? anyways im excited to say she is going to be just as adventerous as her big bro Zion:D..jakey is sucha mello kid:D..so glad i got him first:D hehe. anyways ive been in a rut and my little munchkids really help me through my days:D

Loving Life

Do you ever feel like you and on the verge of something big and you cant stand it? Jake has been doing music now for a few years. He made his first Bubble Gum album in like 2003 right after Jakey was born. It was fun with good songs but really bad recording. The next album he made called The Sample he made in 2006 after he had this slew of writing amd composing and recording and just had to make it a physical thing. He sold em at his big art show/concert and thought that would be all. His dream was to be on Itunes with his hero Jack:D...The Sample was and is miles above Bubble Gum in sound and quality and he recorded it in our little TVA apartment. So he graduated and came to Utah and finds this cool site ...Sellaband and loads his music...within a couple of months. his friends there got enough requests through to Itunes that wala...dream one came true:D...now what? a dream bigger to make an album with pro studio and pro producers and pro everything....fourmonths on Sellaband and 50k later her has his dream #2...now what? dream bigger play a big show it his home town...dream come true #3...nowwhat. A big tour? dude there is so much out there. there is enough room for everyone to make music:D...anyways so he has been taking it one step at a time a little here and a little there but holy crap if I look back at the last five years its amazing how everyone one of Jakes dreams has come true. I keep telling him he needs to dream bigger..>HAHAHAHA. anyways so we have sacrificed a lot so he could do this...like independace and stability and food...hahaha but we are so blessed and feel like we are really on the right road here. We went through a really really desperate time and I kept reading scriptures and the one that pops out is the one where Joseph Smith is in prison and he is all ...how long are you gunna let people get away with this and then HF is all this is all for a reason and endure it well and you will be blessed and its only gunna seem like a moment. So now we are feeling a ton better and doing a tone better with cash and stuff...I hope that that was the moment and I feel like we endured it well. So what is cool about the spirit is that even when you are in your deepest darkest moments its amazing cuz you still feel peace. I wonder if that is what Obinidi felt when he was getting ready to give his life for his beliefs...anyways back to the topic...I feel like something big is on the way...its a new excitment that keeps getting bigger and bigger and its driving me insane...HAHAHA.
When Jake was getting ready for his mission we went through this really hard time and I was completely confused and didnt know what to do but I was really greatful for the experience and knew that Heavenly Father was with us cuz I read this scripture...
17 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye are little children, and ye have not as yet understood how great blessings the Father hath in his own hands and prepared for you;
D&C 78
18 And ye cannot bear all things now; nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along. The kingdom is yours and the blessings thereof are yours, and the riches of eternity are yours.
19 And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more.

When I read this I just realized that I needed to have faith that everything would work out. I had no idea how but I trusted HF and a few years later I looked back at that scripture and realized WOW!! I really am blessed now. I married him and we have a pretty baby and what was interesting is that if I had known that I was going to marrie him before he left for two years I would have really resented him..HAHAH. I wouldnt have been able to date or experience life the way you should when you are on your own the first time in college...so i was really greatful for the perspective and for the chance to just be me for a couple of years. When he came home I was ready!! I had lived a ful two years serving my own mission in a way...EFY and PCC and having all kinds of fun and in no way did I regret marrying him and no way did I realize that we would be so happy and all the blessings we would get and so on you know.
SO recently Ive been pondering things again and over and over this scripture keeps popping up. Its my fav now and I have it memorized and I just cant imagine where we are going but once again Im putting my faith and trust in HF and I know its gunna be better than I ever dreamded:D. so Cool. Im for sure greatful for the struggle it has really given us perspective and experience and we are better people for it...I feel sooo excited and happy. Everytime I ask what I should pray for I hear Success:D.. so pray with me everyone for success for Jake for his music (which is what has chosen him and he has chosen for now:D I just feel so happy when I think about it. anyways so long post. all my kids are crying so i gotta go but yaee:) Glad I got that down...HAHA

barf and feavers

Well back from Wyoming for a week or so now and things are good. My poor baby though has a cold and a feaver. I dont think there is any more helpless feeling sometimes. I Think that if being a mom dosnt get us into heaven then I dont know what will. We are streached and pulled to our limits and then when we think we can go anymore we do. Its just that crazy or simple. We will do anything for our babies. What a powerful thing love can be. We would take the pain in an instant rather than see our babies suffer. We would gladly die for them. We loose years off our life from the years of no sleep and the years of breastfeeding and the years of being pregnant. Its the same thing right...haha. It LOOKS like we have given years. Then we see the super stars who look like twigs and no streach marks and perky boobies. Is that really possible...hahaha. well I kinda like my streach marks. They say I had a baby and I worked hard for it and I love her or him enough that I gave my sexiness for it...HAHAHA. the ultimate sacrifice these days right. Our bodies...hahah. Oh anyways I just wanted to post and say what a wonderful powerful emotion love can be...its seriously bigger than us and can fill us up when we are so tired there is no way you can feed one more kid or change one more diaper or play one more game. Somehow we can and its all because of love...

Singin me to sleep:D

I usually feel so happy and greatful for my Husband and his talents and how he puts the boys to sleep with his music at night. It used to be just me he would sing to sleep but oh how I love hearing his soft voice traveling from the boys room.
I feel almost overwhelmed by his gorgeous voice. How can this voice be singing to my babies? It is the best sound in the world!!! Jake sang me to sleep the other night and Oh (melt) what a beautiful night it was:D...I feel overly blessed in my life and this is one of the coolest blessings I have:D...thankyou Heavenly Father:D...