Thank You

We have been doing an (almost) daily activity of being thankful for this month. Last night our FHE was on being thankful for and towards Heavenly Father. I gave our short lesson (always short due to their attention spans) from this

Who Is Heavenly Father?
BY PRESIDENT BOYD K. PACKER
PRESIDENT OF THE QUORUM OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES
The Father is the one true God. Nothing will ever change the relationship that we have with Him.
Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it.
You are a child of God. He is the father of your spirit.
He is the Father. He is God. We revere our Father and our God; we worship Him.
Just as all life follows the pattern of its parents, so can we grow toward the image of our Heavenly Father if we will live righteously and be obedient to His commandments. 

(Feb. 2012 Friend, Who Is Heavenly Father?, Boyd K. Packer)

I always get teary when I talk to the kids about things of a spiritual matter, I just want them to really know the truth. After our lesson, we put Parley down for bed and the kids wrote Thank You letters to Heavenly Father. Scotty was especially excited about it. It is always wonderful to sit with my kids and talk about Heavenly Father or Jesus Christ. I love that they are developing their own testimonies of Them. 

This past testimony meeting at church, Scotty's friend Libby got up to bare her testimony. Scotty has seen her do this before, but this time he wanted to get up himself. Scotty was too nervous to walk to the stand on his own, so I walked him up there, where Dad met him (since he was on the stand already). Scott helped Scotty bare a beautiful testimony of the Book of Mormon, of his family and of Jesus. it was touching to watch the two of them; Scott, a sweet father helping his son to grow in the gospel, and Scotty, wanting to be like his sweet friend and share his testimony of Jesus. The best part was when Scotty walk back down to me. He beamed with pride. It was beautiful. His sweet smile was huge as he, folding his arms and trying to be reverent, walked/ran back to me and gave me a big hug. The whole this was like a gift. 

It's times like these that I become so overwhelmingly thankful to my Heavenly Father for entrusting me with these beautiful babies, to have for all eternity. What a blessing they are to me! 

Jane's Thank You card to Heavenly Father

Scotty's Thank You card to Heavenly Father. (p.s. that is Heavenly Father)