"Your individual choices have enormous social impact"

One of our assignments this week in Family Relations was to watch a video about birth rates around the world. To sum up the video, the world believes that we shouldn't have too many children because we are over populating the world and we are destroying it by having children. But on the contrary, birth rates are decreasing and this can have a great impact in our society. If birth rates continue to decrease it can cause great damage to one of the greatest social institution; the family.

While we were discussing in class who is affected by this and how? We touched on the topic of what happens to those spirit children who are not born into our homes. I remember hearing about this in young women’s. Those spirit children ends up being born into other families, and most likely into families that are not fully prepared to receive them. I began to think about my own family. Rob and I have been thinking about having a baby soon. It has been on our minds for awhile now, but I have been so afraid of becoming a mother.

There are various reasons why I’m afraid:

1) I don’t want to go through the body changes (that has always been a sensitive topic for me).  

2) I’m not looking forward to the pain that comes with child birth.

3) My family (non-members) does not agree with us having children yet.

 4) Children are such a BIG responsibility and I don’t know if I can be a good mom.

5) I don’t know how I would handle being prego, finishing my last 2 semesters and having 2 jobs.

But today I felt peace about it. I’m still nervous and scared but I realized that I don’t want my children going to into another family. I want them with Rob and me forever!! I really hope that our society, like I did, realize the importance of having children. There are some sacrifices that need to be made but I have heard from friends that is worth it and today the spirit confirmed it to me.To sum this up I’m grateful for the things that were taught by the spirit of the Lord through my Professor Brother Williams.