I know it's been a while since I updated. I've had a lot going on.
I received my first calling since returning to church. I am the Assistant Visiting Teaching Coordinator. Basically I help put together reports that go to the District Relief Society President. So if you haven't done your visiting teaching, you better get crackin'! JK.
On a weird military note...I checked my PO Box obsessively waiting for my December Ensign to come. I never received it. At least not in December. I checked my mail last week around the 9th or so, and lo and behold, there is not only my January issue but also my December issue. I love the military postal system.
In other, more personal news...John and I have decided to start a family. John is unable to have any more children himself without invasive surgery, so we've decided to pursue adoption. I know this will come as a shock to some. Especially considering my past experiences with adoption.
I have known since I was a teenager that adoption was in my future. I actually did my sophomore law presentation on adoption laws in Kansas. I never thought that I would be a birth mother though. I always knew I would be an adoptive mother. Just like I always knew that my first child would be a girl. I didn't need an ultrasound to tell me.
We aren't financially ready to begin the process, but I am learning all I can about adopting while living here in Okinawa. One of the things I've stumbled upon is healthy positive words to combat the stigma of adoption. My favorite phrase is Forever Family in place of adoptive family.
This phrase makes it much more plain to me that I need to go to the temple. I want to have those blessings. I want to be able to give my children a FOREVER FAMILY. I believe in an eternal family and I know that without the blessings of the temple we cannot have that. In the December issue of the Ensign, there was an article about Temple Blessings in a Part-Member Family. I believe that this "coincidence" was the Lord talking to me, through the Church magazine.
I am so grateful for personal revelation. It happens every day, you just have to listen.
