Mothers Who Know part 2

Mother who know honor sacred ordinances and covenants.

This is why mothers of children aged 4 and under walk the halls during sacrament meeting ~smile~. How many of us sit in the lobby with a crying baby and think “Why do I even bother?” Well we bother because we know the importance of partaking of the sacrament.
We are also mothers who hold temple recommends who for years never get to use it because of pregnancy or nursing babies. My goal is to at least use my recommend once a year while raising children. BUT I had a recommend and it means something to me.
Now that my children are older I try to get to the temple once a month. We try to piggy back it with a stake dance, but life happens.

“These mothers have made and honor temple covenants.”
WOW! About 10 years ago a very good friend of mine forgot this and got herself into some serious trouble. Her trouble was so much that it ended in breaking what once was an eternal marriage into pieces. She forgot to honor her temple covenants. She let the world creep in and tell her other things. It was very sad to watch children pulled apart and worse to see her loose that shine and sparkle that once was with her.

“They know that if they are not pointing their children to the temple, they are not pointing them toward desired eternal goals.”
As I have raised my boys this has been my goal. I didn’t say it in these words, but this has been my goal. I will honestly tell you, this has been so very hard! Working against the world is so very hard. I feel like I’m pushing against a train as it comes screaming down the track, but I’m told of promises and blessings. I have to hold to that idea or I will walk away. Just this morning I wanted to just kick them all out. Complain, complain, complain! But that isn’t my goal and it is a selfish desire.

“These mothers have influence and power.”
What great power we have. What great influence we have. We have power to become like the stripling warriors’ mothers. We have power to move armies, educate armies and create the next generation. And unfortunately Satan knows this too so he works hard on us to make us think just the opposite of this. “I can’t make a difference.” WRONG! You can and you must.