Love at Home

The inevitable happened this weekend. My husband and I had the "opportunity to speak" in our ward. Everyone knows that when you move into a new ward, it is bound to happen. But the fact that our ward was new has meant that everyone has been given this chance. They asked us to speak way back in August, the week I had my tonsillectomy, so we got out of it. We kept on asking them when our chance would come up again, but they kept on holding us off, so we had determined this was the key. I think we forgot to ask last month. I knew we were in trouble when the bishopric member got up and stated that when they were trying to determine what topics to have what couples speak on they felt impressed to have us speak on this subject. Ouch. They always say that those who speak learn the most out of their talks and need it the most. As I recently learned of the "Mormon accent" on my friends blog, I tried really hard not to have it. I think she is talking of the change of voice many use when they get up and speak. Kind of funny if you think about it. We all know of at least one person who does it, for occasions such as talks, prayers, and lessons. Anyway, I felt like it went alright. I of course, took the scientific approach to explain the necessity of love, and then ways we can have "Love at Home". My husband had the "Recipe to Love at Home". He actually had a really cute story of how he made pancakes one Saturday morning that just didn't turn out so well and then related how we need to follow some concepts to have the right recipe to have "Love at Home". But the bottom line is this, scientist, psychologist, and politicians, along with church leaders, know that the foundation of society is the family unit, and in order for the community and nation to succeed depends on what happens in the walls of our own homes. And all that is good, is based on love. There is always room to spread a little more love around.