Drop

This week in class we discussed a lot about marraige. I had never thought about how in the first year of marraige a lot of things are established. There are so many things you have to sort through in that first year it is so critical. I think that if you are more aware of this it will help your expectations to not be so high when you get married. It is also important to recognize that you may be setting patterns early in marraige that may be undesirable. However if you are aware of this than you can avoid this before it causes problem in the marriage. I also learned more about my family by doing the family systems project. In mine I compared my family to salsa and learned that we are all important to produce something fantastic. Without several of the ingredients it just wouldn't be the same. Have a great weekend!

Breath In

This week in class we talked about the 4 types of love we have. I thought this was so interesting how you can have a little bit of all of them for one person. We discussed a lot about what kind is the most important, we came to the conclusion that they all are important. We need to have a balance of all of them just like in all things. Moderation is essential to having success in anything. In church on Sunday a girl in class said that in all aspects of our life we have the same amount of love we just show it in different ways. I thought that this was really interesting. I think that maybe we just don't access how much we can love everyone. Ideally we are made in God's image so we should have "perfect love" we just don't show it.

High and Dry

This week in class we discussed some very interesting things: Gender differences. There are so many but what I really learned that kind of shocked me was that a lot of the gender differences are social. Because little boys see other little boys playing with trucks they do to. Or there parents because they are a boy buy them trains instead of dolls. I also learned about being accepting of our children if they are a little different. They aren't born gay, society just tells them that they are. I liked what one girl said in class when she said that "we should teach kids correct labels to what they do rather than connecting it to emotions. For example I like to paint I am and artist, versus I like to paint I must be gay." There are so many things in society that we can really get wrong and persuade people in the wrong direction. What I really got out of class is to just love and accept everyone, you don't have to accept the behavior but you do have to love them.

Rain Drops Keep Falling on my Head

This week in class was really interesting. On wednesday we talked a lot how some many aspects can affect our families. Even in this area of Rexburg. There was so much diversity in just our class. It was interesting to see that there were people from different countries and I loved hearing how that affected growing up here in the United States. It is also interesting to see the different aspects of families like blended families, broken families, things like that. You could tell that part of the different personalities came from those situations, some were stronger because they had to become the parent or things like that. Our families affect so much of who we are. That is why the second principles missionaries teach is the gospel blesses families. Our home is the most important place for us to learn. That is why we are similar to our families because we pick it all up there.