A rainy day full of joy

A couple of weeks ago, we had a rain day and schools were closed. So, I used the day to make quilt squares for a fund raiser for MD Anderson. The project is to raise money to help cure ovarian cancer. I had decided to make the squares in memory of my mother. As I am learning to quilt, it was fun making the squares. It is also a good cause but it mostly it made me feel close to my mother. I had been thinking a lot about her because I had recently heard a lesson about how from the beginning of time, God has used angels as His messengers to convey love and concern for His children. Elder Jeffrey Holland said, “Usually such beings are not seen. Sometimes they are. But seen or unseen they are always near… But I testify that angels are still sent to help us, even as they were sent to help Adam and Eve, to help the prophets, and indeed to help the Savior of the world Himself. I ask everyone within the sound of my voice to take heart, be filled with faith, and remember the Lord has said He “would fight [our] battles, [our] children’s battles, and [the battles of our] children’s children.” And what do we do to merit such a defense? We are to “search diligently, pray always, and be believing. Then] all things shall work together for [our] good, if [we] walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith [we] have covenanted.”

It just made me feel like my mother would really be someone who would volunteer to come be near us whenever we needed love and comfort. She did a great job of that while on this earth.