Sometimes I get discouraged and think that I am not making a difference in the lives of those around me... Well, last summer I was visiting a close friend and his family. One of the nights I was there, he went to bed early, saying he was "really tired". That night, I was up late talking with his sister when in the middle of our conversation, I had a strong impression to get up and write him a note, thanking him for being such an awesome person and friend. I didn't think too much of it. I slipped it under his door and went to bed. Well, this friend wrote me a letter last week, and in it, he told his side of the story. That night that he went to bed early, he was feeling really sick. He couldn't sleep and needed some comfort, but didn't want to ask any of us for help. He said he knelt down and prayed that God would send him some comfort, but thinking that was too much to ask, he climbed in bed and fell asleep. The next morning, he woke up, and there was my note! In his letter, he thanked me for following my impression and being an answer to his prayer. It has been nine months since that happened, and up until last week, I never knew that I was an answer to his prayer that night. So my point with this story is that we never really know what kind of impact we have on others, but this should not stop up from doing what's right! I learned from this experience that I do make a difference in the lives of my friends, even in the little things, like a simple note of friendship.
Say Go Be Do is really changing my family and it's amazing to see! About 10 minutes ago my Mom and I finished a long talk. It's not everyday where we get to sit down and talk as if we're best friends! She was inspired to start this Book of Mormon Challenge with our Commonwealth School and also my family's ward. This all started after she learned about one of the girls, Megan who used to go to our School, who finished the challenge of reading The Book of Mormon 3 times in 3 months. That experience truly changed Megan and helped her become a better person. It would be difficult to look at her now and believe that she was the girl who was into rock music, dressed emo and did a lot of other things like that. Now you look at her and she's more beautiful and prettier! My Mom said that she knew she had to start that same challenge with the youth she interacts with but wasn't sure how to go about it. She thought it would be very easy to share it with the homeschool youth because they've done hard things before and so that worked out very good. She was kind of nervous of how to tell it to the youth of her ward though. She had the thought to go through the Bishop and, surprisingly, the Bishop was really excited about it and thought that the youth would really benefit from this experience! As word got around a lot of people, both youth and adults, expressed their gratitude to my Mom for sharing this challenge with them. This weekend there's going to be a fireside to kick off the challenge and my Mom has been continually amazed how much inspiration she's receiving to make the fireside happen. It's amazing to me to see how one person decides to change something and then they influence others to change. As they're changing, others see it and things start happening in their lives and the first person to change something is able to see the rewards of their efforts. It's a ripple effect and then when the tide is turned you receive two-fold more!
Ok so today is actually the 6th but I've never blogged before so I'm just going to post here because I don't know what else to do :) Plus I'm not even in this session of YFF but I just finished Say Go Be Do this morning and I promised myself I would start blogging today! Emily told me about your blog and said I could keep my committment by posting on here until I can create my own group...so here goes! Thanks for letting me share!
Today I had several saygobedo moments. The biggest one that really scared me and that I can remember right now was to send an email to my boss asking for a personal meeting so we could discuss plans for the summer. I was so nervous! I had kept putting off this email for weeks because I hadn't made up my mind yet about what I wanted to do in the summer so I thought I should wait until I did to set up the meeting...but then I had a saygobedo and I HAD to do it! I did and it turned out great! Lukily :)
I don't know if anyone will actually read this because it's in the wrong week but if you do...good luck with your saygobedo's! I can't wait to hear about them!
Ok, I'm back again! I really wish I had something specific to write about today but I don't. It's been a really great day and I can't think of a saygobedo moment per se but I feel really good about the day. Today I didn't stress about what I needed to do or the order to do it in, I just picked something that needed to be done and did it. That sounds really dumb and simple but I really think that was my saygobedo today. To just do what I needed to do without worrying about it. Sometimes I get so caught up in thinking and planning and finding the end that I want to have in mind that I don't live for today. It's all about what needs to be done because of tomorrow or because of where I want to be next year. Today I found the joy of being here and now and it was awesome!
Today I had a great experience! I have been taking the Thomas Jefferson Youth Certification project, and today I graduated from it. For the graduation, I had to give a speech about what I had gained from it, and what I had learned from my mentors and classmates. I had the speech all written out, but about a quarter of the way into giving it I had a saygobedo to change what I was saying. So I did. I think in the end at least half my speech was given right off the top of my head. But I think it was much better, and much more powerful because of it.
Wow! That's amazing Cello! Boy would that take courage or what? :) Way to go! And congrats on graduating!
This morning was insane with saygobedos. "Call this person...now that person...now do this...don't worry about that right now this is more imortant..." It was great! I had some really great talks and learned a lot. Some of them I must say were a little awkward because I didn't really know why I was calling I was just trying to live saygobedo! But it was sweet!
Also, remember how I said yesterday I didn't really have any saygobedos? Well...I lied! When I woke up this morning I suddenly realized the things I was doing yesterday were totaly saygobedos but I didn't realize it until this morning when I was writing down everything I learned. Crazy how they can slip by without even being noticed if you're not paying really close attention.
Remember the journal we are supposed to be keeping too? That's been really helpful today because I actually started it :) Now I write down anything that feels like a saygobedo. If it's something I need to do right then I do it and then write about it for a second and then put a check by it so I know it's done. If it's not something I can do right then I put a star by it so I can remember to come back and check it off. Then I schedule it to make sure it gets done. It's awesome! It feels like I'm devoting a lot of time to it right now but that's just because I have to make myself hyper-concious until it becomes a habit. Once it is though I really feel like it will all be worth it!
I just realized how long my posts are...sorry! I'll keep them short and sweet from now on :) Pretty much today was a lot like yesterday. Just a lot of little things here and there to sit by this person and talk to that person. It seemed really easy just to do it today and I didn't really try to talk myself out of things. It was nice and I hope it stays that way! I had a few things that I needed to write down and do later but I'm keeping a faithful record of them so I know I won't forget.
One more thing. I don't know if this is a saygobedo but I've felt really overwhelmed lately about all the stuff I need to do each day and especially for this upcoming week. As I was thinking about it I felt like I had a saygobedo to just trust that I will have the saygobedo's that I need tomorrow and this week to know what I need to do and how to do it all well. Would that be considered a saygobedo? I don't know but I guess we'll see how it goes!
Hey everyone! One of my saygobedo's the other day was to start my own blog with one of my students...so I did! I will be posting on that one from now on. Good luck with your saygobedoing! I hope all your preparations for YFF go well! -Aubrey
Aubrey, you are so awesome! Thanks for posting for us for a while. You are totally inspirational!
So, my say go be do the other day was to call Aubrey, so I did. She was about to start teaching a class in a moment, so the conversation was basically "Hi, how are you?" "Good." "What are you doing right now?" "Preparing to get on my class." "Oh, I just had a feeling I should call you, so I did." "Well thanks." "You are welcome. See ya" "Bye."
I hung up the phone wondering "What on earth was that about?" I'd had the feeling and acted on it, but it didn't really seem to be needed.
It struck me that we often don't know the reason for say go be dos. Sometimes we have the impression and act on it, but nothing really happens. Under those circumstances, what do we do? Do we continue to act, or do we give up? Do we mistrust the voice?
I've found from my experience that it is best to act anyway, as long as we are sure it is the true say go be do voice. Even though we may not know the reason, it is worth it. In the case of my story, it was. Aubrey emailed me the next day and told me how much she needed my call at that moment, because it reminded her as she was about to start a tough class that God loves her. He loves me too! :)
Sometimes I get discouraged and think that I am not making a difference in the lives of those around me... Well, last summer I was visiting a close friend and his family. One of the nights I was there, he went to bed early, saying he was "really tired". That night, I was up late talking with his sister when in the middle of our conversation, I had a strong impression to get up and write him a note, thanking him for being such an awesome person and friend. I didn't think too much of it. I slipped it under his door and went to bed. Well, this friend wrote me a letter last week, and in it, he told his side of the story. That night that he went to bed early, he was feeling really sick. He couldn't sleep and needed some comfort, but didn't want to ask any of us for help. He said he knelt down and prayed that God would send him some comfort, but thinking that was too much to ask, he climbed in bed and fell asleep. The next morning, he woke up, and there was my note! In his letter, he thanked me for following my impression and being an answer to his prayer.
ReplyDeleteIt has been nine months since that happened, and up until last week, I never knew that I was an answer to his prayer that night. So my point with this story is that we never really know what kind of impact we have on others, but this should not stop up from doing what's right! I learned from this experience that I do make a difference in the lives of my friends, even in the little things, like a simple note of friendship.
Say Go Be Do is really changing my family and it's amazing to see!
ReplyDeleteAbout 10 minutes ago my Mom and I finished a long talk. It's not everyday where we get to sit down and talk as if we're best friends! She was inspired to start this Book of Mormon Challenge with our Commonwealth School and also my family's ward. This all started after she learned about one of the girls, Megan who used to go to our School, who finished the challenge of reading The Book of Mormon 3 times in 3 months. That experience truly changed Megan and helped her become a better person. It would be difficult to look at her now and believe that she was the girl who was into rock music, dressed emo and did a lot of other things like that. Now you look at her and she's more beautiful and prettier!
My Mom said that she knew she had to start that same challenge with the youth she interacts with but wasn't sure how to go about it. She thought it would be very easy to share it with the homeschool youth because they've done hard things before and so that worked out very good. She was kind of nervous of how to tell it to the youth of her ward though. She had the thought to go through the Bishop and, surprisingly, the Bishop was really excited about it and thought that the youth would really benefit from this experience! As word got around a lot of people, both youth and adults, expressed their gratitude to my Mom for sharing this challenge with them.
This weekend there's going to be a fireside to kick off the challenge and my Mom has been continually amazed how much inspiration she's receiving to make the fireside happen.
It's amazing to me to see how one person decides to change something and then they influence others to change. As they're changing, others see it and things start happening in their lives and the first person to change something is able to see the rewards of their efforts. It's a ripple effect and then when the tide is turned you receive two-fold more!
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ReplyDeleteOk so today is actually the 6th but I've never blogged before so I'm just going to post here because I don't know what else to do :) Plus I'm not even in this session of YFF but I just finished Say Go Be Do this morning and I promised myself I would start blogging today! Emily told me about your blog and said I could keep my committment by posting on here until I can create my own group...so here goes! Thanks for letting me share!
ReplyDeleteToday I had several saygobedo moments. The biggest one that really scared me and that I can remember right now was to send an email to my boss asking for a personal meeting so we could discuss plans for the summer. I was so nervous! I had kept putting off this email for weeks because I hadn't made up my mind yet about what I wanted to do in the summer so I thought I should wait until I did to set up the meeting...but then I had a saygobedo and I HAD to do it! I did and it turned out great! Lukily :)
I don't know if anyone will actually read this because it's in the wrong week but if you do...good luck with your saygobedo's! I can't wait to hear about them!
~Aubrey
Ok, I'm back again! I really wish I had something specific to write about today but I don't. It's been a really great day and I can't think of a saygobedo moment per se but I feel really good about the day. Today I didn't stress about what I needed to do or the order to do it in, I just picked something that needed to be done and did it. That sounds really dumb and simple but I really think that was my saygobedo today. To just do what I needed to do without worrying about it. Sometimes I get so caught up in thinking and planning and finding the end that I want to have in mind that I don't live for today. It's all about what needs to be done because of tomorrow or because of where I want to be next year. Today I found the joy of being here and now and it was awesome!
ReplyDeleteToday I had a great experience! I have been taking the Thomas Jefferson Youth Certification project, and today I graduated from it. For the graduation, I had to give a speech about what I had gained from it, and what I had learned from my mentors and classmates. I had the speech all written out, but about a quarter of the way into giving it I had a saygobedo to change what I was saying. So I did. I think in the end at least half my speech was given right off the top of my head. But I think it was much better, and much more powerful because of it.
ReplyDeleteWow! That's amazing Cello! Boy would that take courage or what? :) Way to go! And congrats on graduating!
ReplyDeleteThis morning was insane with saygobedos. "Call this person...now that person...now do this...don't worry about that right now this is more imortant..." It was great! I had some really great talks and learned a lot. Some of them I must say were a little awkward because I didn't really know why I was calling I was just trying to live saygobedo! But it was sweet!
Also, remember how I said yesterday I didn't really have any saygobedos? Well...I lied! When I woke up this morning I suddenly realized the things I was doing yesterday were totaly saygobedos but I didn't realize it until this morning when I was writing down everything I learned. Crazy how they can slip by without even being noticed if you're not paying really close attention.
Remember the journal we are supposed to be keeping too? That's been really helpful today because I actually started it :) Now I write down anything that feels like a saygobedo. If it's something I need to do right then I do it and then write about it for a second and then put a check by it so I know it's done. If it's not something I can do right then I put a star by it so I can remember to come back and check it off. Then I schedule it to make sure it gets done. It's awesome! It feels like I'm devoting a lot of time to it right now but that's just because I have to make myself hyper-concious until it becomes a habit. Once it is though I really feel like it will all be worth it!
I just realized how long my posts are...sorry! I'll keep them short and sweet from now on :) Pretty much today was a lot like yesterday. Just a lot of little things here and there to sit by this person and talk to that person. It seemed really easy just to do it today and I didn't really try to talk myself out of things. It was nice and I hope it stays that way! I had a few things that I needed to write down and do later but I'm keeping a faithful record of them so I know I won't forget.
ReplyDeleteOne more thing. I don't know if this is a saygobedo but I've felt really overwhelmed lately about all the stuff I need to do each day and especially for this upcoming week. As I was thinking about it I felt like I had a saygobedo to just trust that I will have the saygobedo's that I need tomorrow and this week to know what I need to do and how to do it all well. Would that be considered a saygobedo? I don't know but I guess we'll see how it goes!
Hey everyone! One of my saygobedo's the other day was to start my own blog with one of my students...so I did! I will be posting on that one from now on. Good luck with your saygobedoing! I hope all your preparations for YFF go well!
ReplyDelete-Aubrey
Aubrey, you are so awesome! Thanks for posting for us for a while. You are totally inspirational!
ReplyDeleteSo, my say go be do the other day was to call Aubrey, so I did. She was about to start teaching a class in a moment, so the conversation was basically "Hi, how are you?" "Good." "What are you doing right now?" "Preparing to get on my class." "Oh, I just had a feeling I should call you, so I did." "Well thanks." "You are welcome. See ya" "Bye."
I hung up the phone wondering "What on earth was that about?" I'd had the feeling and acted on it, but it didn't really seem to be needed.
It struck me that we often don't know the reason for say go be dos. Sometimes we have the impression and act on it, but nothing really happens. Under those circumstances, what do we do? Do we continue to act, or do we give up? Do we mistrust the voice?
I've found from my experience that it is best to act anyway, as long as we are sure it is the true say go be do voice. Even though we may not know the reason, it is worth it. In the case of my story, it was. Aubrey emailed me the next day and told me how much she needed my call at that moment, because it reminded her as she was about to start a tough class that God loves her. He loves me too! :)