LadyPoet6

What are some of the "do not miss" parts of this website...especially ones about raising families (especially teens)?

Provo

I am new to this. I am hoping to find advice and fellowship. I am a mom to 5 kids 19yod, 17yos, 15yos, 9yos and 7yos. We home educate them right up through college. I was raised in Utah, but not a member. I was baptized right before the death of my mother (she just asked me what faith I wanted to join...and I lived in Utah..I didn't want to get teased. LOL) My conversion came much later. My mother died from drug addiction and surgery complications when I was 14. My brothers and I were sent to foster homes. In my foster home they sold dope out their front door...they still do...but they aren't foster parents. I lived right across from a church, but never went. I didn't know hardly anything about the church. I did, however know that I did NOT want to end up like many of the people I had been around in my life. After I married my husband (who is LDS). We moved to Chicago with his family, and his family taught me much about the gospel. The first thing I learned was the feeling of the Holy Ghost. The family knelt down to pray and read scriptures...I thought they were teasing, because people didn't do that anymore. I knelt down out of respect...and had the most warm feeling wash over me, and a feeling that said: "this is what you have searched for your whole life, listen and learn"...so I did. My hubby and I were sealed in the temple a year later with our baby girl. She has been followed by 4 brothers, and we are quite happy. I still do have questions about many things, so I am hoping to learn from others and maybe offer a pearl of wisdom or knowledge here and there. LadyPoet6

I am brand new here, and a convert since I was 17. LOL But, I think sometimes the best way to feel that fire...is to bring it to the meeting yourself. I know what you mean about grown people talking and whispering, sometimes my very own grown kids are guilty of that. LOL Why not offer that fire in your testimony meeting? I'm not asking you to break into song, or anything of that sort, but bring a reverent fire for the gospel to the meeting. Many times people (like my grown children) take it for granted, because they have been raised in the gospel, and they don't realize how it feels for those of us who weren't raised with it. We want to sing it, we want to shout it. I know, I know. I have to constantly remind them what it felt like for me, when I first joined the church. LadyPoet