Hiding My Light...

Dear Posterity,
It's important that we take the time to recognize our talents and let them shine! I've been thinking about this a lot lately and then I received this kind letter in the mail today from a dear sister in my ward. She didn't sign it, but I feel comfortable sharing it here.

Dear Sister Jones,
I'm so inspired watching you each Sabbath with your children sitting reverently in church. All their hair is done and their shirts are clean and pressed or their dressed are pressed and they're wearing appropriate shoes. I don't know how you do it with 15 children so close in age! I am inspired by you and struggle to try to keep up with your abilities.

Your spirit shines so brightly. You are blessed.
Love, a neighbor

Wasn't that so sweet? So I decided that I need to share with all of you my secrets to my wonderful life! I've been blessed with many talents among them organization, spirituality, parenting, and giving helpful advice.

If you have questions about anything please email me and I'll do my best to answer them for you on 'Ask Molly' days!! I'm so excited for this chance to 'let my light shine!'

My email is SisterMollyJones@gmail.com I'll be hearing from you soon!

Love,
Molly

1. Talents
2. Sweet Sisters in my ward
3. Children who sit reverently in Sacrament Meeting

Another Wonderful Sunday!

Dear Posterity,
Sunday is truly the best day of the whole week! We spend the day as a family and avoid all electronics as well as reading anything that doesn't come from church headquarters. We love to sit around and play music together. We'll turn off the heat in the winter and the AC in the summer so we can be closer to our pioneer ancestors. We're blessed to only live 1 1/2 miles from church so we don't even need to use the car to get around on Sunday! I'll confess that sometimes Peter does use the car when he's speaking at a ward on the other side of the stake that is 10 miles away, but it was a matter of weighing the consequences. We decided it would be more spiritually beneficial to spend more time with the family then to walk to and from that meeting. It was a decision we prayed about and fasted about intently.

Yesterday afternoon we played together and sang together from the Hymnbook. Elijah played the piano (he is so great! Such a talent for him), and our 'family string quartet' also joined in. They're getting so good! All of our children play the piano starting at the age of 2 1/2 and then at the age of five they get to choose a string instrument or flute (music that is appropriate for Sacrament Meeting and all). Once they've mastered that they may move on from there to other instruments of their choice. We also practice singing as a family regularly. On Sunday Caleb as on the bass, Adam was on the cello, Deborah was playing viola and Bethany was on the violin.

Music is such a blessing in our home. We're so blessed that I quite the accomplished musician and I teach my children piano and string instruments. What a gift that is in our home!

We spent some time yesterday writing to grandparents that are on missions as well. Of course by the time we got to that it was starting to get dark- so we used candlelight! What a fun tradition in our home that is!

I hope your Sabbath was as wonderful as mine!

Love, Molly

1. Music and my gift of teaching it.
2. Wonderful children.
3. Umbrellas (it was raining today! How blessed are we for umbrellas to keep us dry as we walked!)