June - Allen

The other day I overheard Gabe tell his cousin “I wish I could do whatever I wanted to do” Elder Bednar in his conference talk tell us that we need to take every opportunity to teach our children. I couldn’t let this teaching opportunity pass J.  I had just read the June Ensign article titled “Agency Is Essential to Our Eternal Progress” part of it says. 

How we use the gift of agency in mortality affects our eternal happiness or misery.  Therefore, when we choose our course of action, we also choose the consequences of our actions. Although consequences may not be immediate, they will always follow. Choosing to follow God’s commandments leads us toward peace and eternal life. Choosing to accept Satan’s temptations leads us toward sin and heartache.

And this was the kicker the reason why I wanted to talk to Gabe. “When we choose to obey God’s commandments, our options increase, and we have more freedom”  “When we choose to disobey God’s commandments, our options decrease, and we may become captive.”

I finished by telling Gabe “When you obey your parents and trust is earned you are given more flexibility in the rules, giving you more freedom.  When you don’t obey your parents you lose trust and lose ability to do more things.  The same principle works with Heavenly Father.

As for other news, Tammi is getting ready to go to her 2^nd young women’s camp, she is excited to be going as this year the camp is being put on by the Stake and all she needs to do is show up.  I’m also excited as I get to have a full week off from work.  I use to be the owner of the business and I ran the business, but this last year and half I have found the office is running me.  I need to change that.

As for the other kids they are all doing great.  Tess is being potty trained, Tammi is hoping to have that all done by the end of summer as she will be starting pre-school .  But Tess has always taken her time in doing anything.  For example, Tess didn’t start walking until she was 18 months, and at time still thinks she needs a bottle.  I beginning to wonder if we have done something wrong with her.

All the kids are enjoying summer.  Our house has become the hang out joint.  All the kids come to our house and play, Tammi is getting tired of it with the phone ringing and door bell going off all day long.  I think the other moms in the subdivision have a rule in that kids are not allowed to go to their home (including their own), so they come to ours.  The other day when I came home from work, we had at least 10 people playing war, each of them had a toy gun including Brynn.  Just last night we had kids at the house until 10.  I asked them if they had a home and suggested that they go home.

I hope that I have supplied enough information about the family for this month.  I hope all is going well with everyone, I think of you often and pray that all will go well for you.