Jill Carey, February, Sharing the gospel!

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During February I decided to share the love by sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.   The first week was a tangible HUGE success!  I invited one of my piano students to come to New beginnings with us which was the next day.   To my surprise she was excited and accepted the invitation. her grandfather (who raises her as her father) was deeply touched by the invitation.   She attended with us and enjoyed herself so much that she now attends weekly activities with us.   

We prayed as a family to know who we should share the gospel with and unitedly felt inspired to share the gospel with my sons friend.   Matthew has taken on the responsibility of sharing his testimony and inviting.   I went to be done night and on my bedside table was an envelope with a note on it that said "Matthews mission fund".  There was $25 in it.  My heart was filled because I know that he doesn't have a lot of opportunities to earn as much money this time of year but his desire is to keep adding to his fund.   I feel like this desire came as a direct result of his participation in the February focus  on missionary work.  

I had some crazy Jill moments where I was spreading gospel principles and gods love to complete strangers.   My favorite one was in the grocery store.  There was a young man around the age of twenty.  He was buying cigarettes:   I told him I was standing there representing his mother.   He said that his mom smoked too.  I then told him that was the reason his mom knew for sure it wasn't a good idea for him to smoke and buy those cigarettes. He paused and finally smiled before admitting that it was true.  I then told him not to worry that God loves him no matter what. 

There are so many awesome things that happened during February and are still happening this month.  We are commuted to hastening the work!

So here's one of me and my dog.

I didn't know how to take pictures of us sharing the gospel or of us praying for missionary experiences (that seems a little or a lot wrong). But I tried for a hot momma selfie....  It ended up with the iron in the background.... So much for being hot!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jill Carey, January, Make 5 homemade meals a week!

My happiness project consisted of making 5 homemade meals a week for my family.   I really had to plan and focus to make this happen.    It was fun to talk about with the many people who come in and out of our home.   Our topic of conversation usually ended back to "Mom's happiness project"  

As time progressed through the month the kids were really enjoying the benefits of their cooked meals and not "fend for your self" meals.   On days when I would say that I was going to opt out of cooking they would say "but you have only cooked 3 times so far this week..... or, what about your happiness project..... or, you can't count that meal because Rachel (my oldest) made half of that one."   There are many other quotes available from the Carey clan.   This was such a fun thing for me to do during January because everyone in the house enjoyed it so much.   AND..... it really wasn't all that difficult (although I'm glad that I'm not bound by it anymore.)  

I found that my happiness project is really my whole families happiness project!   So..... here's to the Joy for 2014!!  We are sharing the gospel like crazy this month!   It's almost over and we will be on to the next!

Jill Carey's Goals & Projects for 2014

January (I've already started this one)

Make dinner for my family five times a week.  My children are the ages where they can fend for themselves. I resort to that more than I should.   When I cook I'm really good at incorporating vegetables, so the end result will inevitably be a more healthy family.  

February: Share the gospel with at least one person a week.   It is the month of love so I will spread the love!!

March:  Listen to the entire session of October 2013 general conference from beginning to end in preparation for Aprils conference.   

April:   Give service to each of my children's teachers at school and at church.   Since I have 4 children I will focus in the teachers of each of my children a week at a time.   Starting from the oldest to the youngest.  

May:  I love the mother/daughter book club idea!!!   I will host the first one in May and have at least 5 mother/daughter duo recruits.   

June:  Host night games for the neighborhood kids on Friday nights.   We started doing this for a few weeks in September and it was a lot of fun.  It takes some self control to not plan things that I would enjoy more over that time.   We may have to start this one in May!!! :).