My poem from Beehives

This is a poem I received when I was a Beehive. The poem was given to me with my baby picture:

So you were I...
Somehow, I can't think through
to that forgotten time when
I was you.

Would your clear eyes read
what is written in my own?
Would you be disappointed
in the me to which you've grown?

Children with special needs

The Prophet Joseph Smith said: “All the minds and spirits that God ever sent into the world are susceptible of enlargement.”

Here is a talk by Pres. James E. Faust to parents of children with special needs:
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Lessons learned from Noah's Ark

I just got this in an email today that I thought was applicable to Old Testament study this year. I would like to give credit to the original person who sent it, but you can't always tell! As close as I can determine, it is from someone with an email address of kmuir2026@aol.com.

I just studied Moses a few weeks ago. It's kind of cute, but thought-provoking too!

The woodpecker might have to go!


Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah's Ark .
One : Don't miss the boat.
Two : Remember that we are all in the same boat.
Three : Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
Four : Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
Five : Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
Six : Build your future on high ground.
Seven : For safety sake, travel in pairs.
Eight : Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
Nine : When you're stressed, float a while.
Ten : Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
Eleven: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting.

And now, the rest of the story.......

Women of God can never be like women of the world.
The world has enough women who are tough;
we need women who are tender.
There are enough women who are coarse;
we need women who are kind.
There are enough women who are rude;
we need women who are refined.
We have enough women of fame and fortune;
we need more women of faith.
We have enough greed; we need more goodness.
We have enough vanity; we need more virtue.
We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

Margaret D. Nadauld, “The Joy of Womanhood,” Ensign, Nov 2000, 14–16

This quote is on my top 5 list of quotes that help me and guide me in my life.

It is so powerful and true. In driving down to Salina with some other teachers to observe a program there, I had a conversation with a teacher that involved this quote.

She said she was listening to a talk on a radio station from the Manti area. The president of Snow College, Stephen Nadauld, was speaking. He was a general authority at one time. His wife, Margaret Nadauld, was the general YW president just before Susan Tanner.

He told about a time when his wife was getting ready to speak in General Conference. Apparently, there is a practice room with a podium just like in the conference center, where you can practice using the teleprompters and time your talk. The talk has to be timed and be exactly the time you are allotted, since it will be televised. She practiced the talk and it was too long. She prayerfully shaved some of her thoughts off and tried it again and it wasn't long enough. Then, she felt impressed to add something else instead of putting back in some of what she already had. This part of her talk became the quote for which she is most known.

After the teacher told me this, it did happen to be the quote that I know and love so much! It is interesting to know how much effort and prayer went into developing this. It is important to me and I am so thankful that she took the extra effort and inspiration to come up with this. I don't have time right now, but I will look for this talk by Stephen Nadauld and see how much of the story I got right. But it is very interesting to hear about this.

And, as Paul Harvey was so famous for saying, And that is the rest of the story!