Confession: Sometimes I Just Need a Friend

As most of you know the church magazines are divided into age groups. The Friend is for primary age children. The New Era is for teens and the Ensign is for the rest of us. And while I do enjoy the Ensign for it’s informative articles and beautiful artwork, (I like to cut the artwork out, frame it and hang it up in my office.) it can at times, go slightly over my head. My name is Bianca, and I read children’s magazines. The truth is there is still so much I am working on-the basics of the gospel really; love your neighbor, forgive, remember your baptism covenants, go to church, be good, choose the right, etc. etc. And sometimes the Ensign is a little advanced for me. I just feel so behind. That is when I pick up the Friend magazine. I look through it, smile at the things I’m doing right, take a deep breath when I recognize the things I can work on, and try again. Next year, after the baby is born and I no longer have to concentrate so hard on not throwing up, and my hormones aren’t all over the place, I think I will try to move up to the New Era at least. I’ll start with those funny Mormonisms and move on to the Mormonads and then who knows maybe by the time my children are grown, I will be able to read the Ensign easily, with a feeling of accomplishment and pride. In the meantime, I will continue to cut out those cute little activities in the Friend magazine, pretend they are for my kids, and we will all work hard on the simple/basic truths of the gospel together- while we color a coloring page.