I'm back

Hello fellow blog readers, as you can see I am back. This is a blog I originally used for a class that focused on the family and it's importance but now I have a class that I am going to be blogging about. This class is actually a different type of class but it is one I am really excited for. It is called Exceptional Students. (You may remember from previous posts that I am a child development major on my home stretch here at BYUI and I am hopeful to one day become a Speech and Language Pathologist! So this class will help me achieve that goal and learn a lot along the way!)
For this blog I will be updating what I learn in class every week to reflect on the principles I have learned and how I will better apply them in my life experiences of working with some of our Heavenly Father's dearest children that have special needs.
So for this week we got to read some amazing talks given by apostles of our church and I loved reading them and relating them back to how I can apply the things they were teaching me when I am working with children. One of the biggest things that stuck out to me was in a talk called, "The Moving of the Water" by Boyd K. Packer. The main idea that stuck out to me was that we need to try ourselves to become angels that move the water for others in our lives. He also emphasized the importance of remembering the bigger picture in this life. This stood out to me as I thought about how important that is when working with special needs children, they are God's children and we need to help them realize this mortal life that they have this disability is only limited. He also said, "affliction comes to the innocent." This struck me very powerfully as I was reading because that is so true. Most of these children can't control their situation and why their disability happened to them so we must always remember they are innocent and never judge.
Overall this week I have learned that working with exceptional students will take a lot of practice to know what to do and how to do it but in the end it will be very rewarding. These are some of Heavenly Father's most beloved children and we are lucky to be trusted to help them along this earthly path. I look forward to this class and learning more to take with me in this semester! See you next week!