I am so happy for you. Being a mother is the most wonderful thing in the world.
I first met you when your own mom was a fairly new mother herself. We moved into the ward in the fall of 1992. At the time you were just a baby- a very cute baby! On my first Sunday in the ward I sat behind your mom in Relief Society and I watched her bounce you on her lap and play with you throughout the meeting. I had a few thoughts as I watched her. The first- how beautiful your mom was. The second- how beautiful and adorable you were. The third- how much your mom loved you. It was a tender and sweet thing for me to watch you and her interact together.
And because your mom and I became such close friends I have been able to watch you grow up- through play groups, elementary school, junior high and high school and then on to college and marriage and now to the next and most wonderful phase of your life- a mom.
You will be a darling mom. As you raise this sweet baby, do what feels right to you. Listen to the Spirit and talk things over with your husband. It will be an amazing time in your life and it is a time that will never end! You will be a mother forever. There is not a sweeter blessing.
I love this quote from Elder Holland:
"Remember, remember all the days of your motherhood: “Ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save.” (2 Nephi 31:19) Rely on Him. Rely on Him heavily. Rely on Him forever. And “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope.” (2 Nephi 31:20) You are doing God’s work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you and He will bless you, even—no, especially—when your days and your nights may be the most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master’s garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and sometimes weep over their responsibility as mothers, “Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.” (Matthew9:22) And it will make your children whole as well." General Conference 1997
Congratulations Leslie!!!!
Love, Diana Barnett
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