Notice Notes

Help Them on Their Way Home
President Henry B. Eyring
April 2010 Conference

Just looking at the title makes me think of my profession. Even though I don't teach my students the gospel directly, I can indirectly teach them through my works.

LOVED this article!

I am not a mother.

Hope I someday can be...and have always hoped for that.

But I am a teacher. And I teach around 25-30+ students a year. Have done so for 9 years. SO I have had lots 'n lots of kids.

I always hope I am source of comfort and direction for them. Some of them I KNOW have fallen off the path--members or not--and it breaks my heart. I looked at my first year's class picture while my niece told me of everyone's whereabouts. They are all graduated now. Several....have not such a great life story right now. Seriously breaks my heart.

But these quotes stood out.

"I have seen how parents helped a daughter achieve her goals and dreams by noticing and appreciating all the good things she does".

"So, if we are wise, we will encourage, praise, and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost. When they share with us what they are doing and feeling, we must ourselves have qualified for the Spirit. Then they will feel in our praise and our smiles the approval of God..."

I've started "Notice Notes" with my students. Each day I put a note on a few students' desks of things I notice about them. Good things. And I try to be really sincere and honest about them.

Hope this helps them a little...and that because I'm trying to seek the Spirit in my life, and trying to have the Holy Ghost with me daily, that possibly they will feel approval of God in those "Notice Notes", ...even if they don't know a "God"...at least they will feel a deep love.