Hope in the Hopoate Family

 Today at church there wasn’t enough time to share my testimony! So I thought I’d blog it this time! Just over a month ago I felt a little stagnant in my spiritual growth. I had just around 2 months until I was due. So I prayerfully set the goal to finish The Book of Mormon by my due date.  Now it’s been around 7 weeks and I only have 1 week left! And I can honestly say that reading The Book of Mormon in these large chunks has helped me so much in my life. Things are still hard and I still struggle, but I feel the spirit more often, I feel more humble and more grateful on the daily.  I know The Book of Mormon is true! It is such a blessing in my life and has helped me when I wasn’t feeling strong.  In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

  Yesterday, my kids and I were running some errands. We had a long wait at one point in the car so I gave Tiana a piece of paper and a pen to draw during the wait. The boys were happy just being crazy lol.     5 minutes later Tiana shows me what she's been writing. She had copied the letters from a Subway sign. The sign said, COME BREAK BREAD WITH US THIS SUNDAY.     I laughed so hard. I had no clue where she got that from so I asked and she pointed to the Subway sign. She's a hoot! I explained that it was a sandwich place so they want people to come and eat sandwiches at their restaurant on Sundays.     Context for the next part... We have taught our children that God has commanded us to keep the Sabbath day holy. This is different for every family, but for us that means we don't go places on Sundays.      So Tiana asks, "Wait, they're open on  Sundays?!"      I respond, "Yes. R emember, not everyone knows the comma...