Young Womens

I'm the secretary in the YW presidency and it is my turn to teach the lesson tomorrow. I've spent all day figuring out how best go about this topic: The Sacred Power of Procreation, and have decided to pretty much follow the lesson outline and hope it goes well. I'm not uncomfortable talking about sex, but I worry that the girls will be uncomfortable with the topic. It's a small yw group and so I hope they'll be open to the conversation and won't tune me out completely. I'll have to put my worries to bed and let you know how it goes tomorrow.

I can now take a sigh of relief for my lesson is over and I'm home in comfy clothes. Sadly, I found out the girls didn't know what procreation meant, so once they found out the lesson was on sex it was my job to make it an open and comfortable setting.

I let them know it was like vegas and what was said or asked in there stayed in there. I wish I could put all teenage girls at ease and give them the foresight to see that high school isn't forever and that keeping themselves pure and chaste is really worth everything I'm telling them.

There was one quote in particular that stuck out to me:

“This most intimate relationship between man and woman, authorized by God within the covenant of marriage, is not merely physical or biological. It involves the whole personality, affects the complex nature of men and women. This relationship, within the sanctity of the marriage covenant, with its concomitant obligations, makes man and woman one in interests, aims, aspirations, and responsibilities. If they are true to their covenants to each other, to their children, and to God, their whole beings are merged, they become one mentally and spiritually, and the family they establish is an eternal unit. Prerequisite to ideal marriage is deep and abiding love. This enduring relationship requires purity of thought, word, and action; devotion, loyalty, sacrifice, integrity, fidelity, honesty, and again unsullied virtue. There is no real decency without virtue, and there is no real happiness without decency” (Hugh B. Brown, You and Your Marriage [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1960], p. 81).

I hope to be able to be as open with my children as I was today with the girls, I also hope my children will be as open with me as the girls were today. I'm so thankful for a church that gives amazing and practical advice and is open with its members.