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I was excited to see the "Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting: Building Up A Righteous Posterity" show up with the Ensign and Friend this month. Sister Tanner, talking about the "Proclamation" said as a young single adult she "remembers hearing them preach that we were to get married, to have children, and to get an education, sort of all simultaneously, as impossible as it sounds." Then Elder Holland said "you shouldn't miss the ties that bind and the experiences that link us together in our youth and in our hardship and in our sacrifices as well as in senior years when maybe you've got a little more money." I took that one out of context a little, but I really liked what he was saying about the "experiences that link us together" when we marry and have kids before we are "in the money". Then my favorite, Sister Lant said "Having children is a lot of work. And we have to not be afraid of that, because it's that very element of working hard and being willing to do whatever it takes that makes us who we are. It's the sacrifice that makes us who we are. I want to bear my testimony of the joy that comes from having families, from having children, because there's not only the commandment from the Lord to do it, but there are great promised blessings."
A young woman told me this week she has three goals in life: to become a doctor, to not get married, and to not have children. After telling her that two of those goals were in direct violation of God's commandments, I started thinking about how lonely that would be. Coming home to an empty house, no one to nurture and love, no one to pull you through the highs and lows of life. It is heartbreaking to contemplate.
Who would want to miss out on silly, creative moments like this?:

This is what happens when I get distracted on the computer. They taped their eyes, noses, ears, and mouths shut. It was hilarious (sounds dangerous, but no children suffocated in order to obtain this picture).