Christ Like Love

I have been thinking a lot about Christ like love and loving Christ lately everything in life just seems to come back to one of these to things. What really got me thinking about Christ like love is being in a marriage prep sunday school class every other Sunday. At first when i signed up for the class I figure it would be about how we need to get married and the importance of us getting married. However, Sister Reeves my bishops wife, the one teaching the class, has done SO much more with our lessons. She has been teaching us that before we are ready to get married we need to have Christ like love and we need to love Christ. This is SO TRUE. So I made it my goal to work on both these things and I have noticed the biggest difference in my life the past month and a half. Having Christ like love is not easy I will be the first to admit that it is loving everyone no matter what. It is seeing the best in every person and going out of your way to help people. Elder Holland gave a talked title "How Do I Love The" in it he talks about having Christ like love it is an amazing talk in you have not had the opportuity to hear please do!! Jesus gave us the commandment "That ye love one another and I have LOVED you" What a huge responsibilty he has given us. He loves all of us so much whether we are poor or rich, whether we follow him or not, whether we are pretty or ugly. He loves us NO MATTER WHAT. Can we say the same about ourselves?

The other thing I have been working on is loving Christ, I have not always had that strongest testimony. I have always known the church is true and that Christ lives and loves me but I have never worked hard on having a realationship with Christ. Over the past month though I have worked on becoming friends with Christ and I have come to love him so much! I am so grateful for everything my Savior has done for me and I love him with all my heart.

Now on a lighter note if you are still even reading this...my ward had a Valentines dinner for the some of the widows in our stake last night and it was best Valentines dinner or activity I have EVER attended. Each of the boys brought a date and had dinner with them and we relief society sisters served them the whole night was a success and the ladies loved it!

Highlights:

One boy brought his grandma, she was the most ADORABLE lady I have ever has the oppotunity of meeting. When they got there(i was spying..oops) he helped her take off her coat but not just by standing behind her pulling it off he unbottoned every button on the coat for her and gently took it off and hung it up!! it was the cutest sweetest thing i have seen a boy do in a very long time.

One of the ladies made every person in our ward beanies i was lucky enough to get a blue BYU you one(i plan on wearing it to every football game i go to) i am just so grateful that some lady who does not even know us would spend so much time on making us such a beautiful present.

I over heard the coversation one boy was having with his date while I was serving it went like like

Boy:"Are you on a facebook"

Date 1: "facebook? no, i dont have time to mess around with all that computer garbage"

i wish i would have stuck around for the rest of the coverstation.

Overall the night was amazing i learned so much and saw true acts of Christ like love...

So this Valentines show someone in your life CHRIST LIKE LOVE!