well this week what really stuck out to me was when we talked about the differences that happen when a couple that is married has a baby and how the couple can have a decline in their intimacy with each other. Also that stood out to me was how we talked about involving the husband with the pregnancy and helping him to know that he is needed even after the baby is born. To involve the husband with all of the joyful times that you'll have with children. and that it is important to keep separate time for you and your spouse because that relationship is so important. Your spouse comes first even when you have children. 

This week what I really liked and learned a lot about is actually from the family systems project that we had to do. It really opened my eyes to the actual different roles that me and my siblings and parents play into our family. It allowed to me view and ponder on this and now I feel like I have a great respect for the roles in my family because I now have a greater understand of how they all work together and why my family needs all of those different roles. Heavenly Father really knows what he is doing when he puts family members together. WE are here to help each other learn and grow.

This week we talked a lot about the difference between gender roles and also about same sex marriage and what makes someone a homosexual. While talking about these subjects and how important it is for a man and a women to get married and the different roles that are applied in a marriage and with raising children the spirit has testified to me that the Family a Proclamation to the World is indeed truth from God about how important it is to be married as husband and wife. I have thought a lot about my own individual role of being a wife and what is expected of me. Sometimes I feel like I am falling short of those responsibilities but I know that with the Lords help I can become perfected through my marriage. It is so true that I need my husband in order to reach perfect and make it to the Celestial Kingdom. He does have strengths that I dont have and I have strengths that he doesnt have and when we become one and teach each other then that is when miracles happen. It is also interesting to me how people have said for the longest time that people are born "gay" when they really arent. Why would a loving God make them that way to sin from birth? He wouldn't and doesn't. It does make sense what research says about how people view them as gay from things they do and then title them. and then they look back and say oh yeah... i guess that is true. When it isnt at all. Its okay if guys are more sensitive sometimes. My husband is sensitive and that is one of the things that I love most about him. That will make him be a great Father someday and it does make him be a great husband. And it is okay if girls are more masculine. I love cars and being able to learn about them and how to fix them. I love to watch movies that have car racing in them because I love the way the cars sound when they race. Does that make me a boy... NOPE! Anyways that is some of my thoughts from this week.

This week I learned a lot about the different cultures that are in the world. I guess I never really thought of my life and experiences as a culture. I knew that there was different cultures but I guess I never really focused on what my culture is in my own family and what things I contribute to my personal family now that I've been married. I am grateful for the Mormon culture though, I love it because it bring peace because it is focused on the Savior and His teachings. I also learned a lot about families and family structures. Like what we read and talked about today in class about the Mexican family and what they had to go through and how much of an impact divorce or even just the dad going away for work for a few months can have on a family. I have been really learning a lot about families and how much we need each other. Elder Bednar talks a lot about this. That we need each other to survive and make it back to our Father in Heaven. I guess you could say that a lot of truths that I've "known" I am learning and gaining a deeper understanding of what they truly mean to me and to my Father in Heaven.