Week 12

This week we learned about divorce, marriage and blended families. President Gordon B. Hinckley said, “Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.”  I know that at one point I wanted my parents to get a divorce; they didn’t which is good. I have seen relatives that have children and their spouse has died, so they would get married to someone else that had already had children as well. For some it works out and others it doesn’t. My one cousin married for the third time and they have together ten kids and one of their very own. I think it helps if the families are able to get along before the parents get married. After they are married I think that it takes a lot of tolerance as President Hinckley said so that we can at first tolerate and then come to love each new sibling. Along with tolerance, forgiveness is important because at first the new blended family won’t be used to what the other does, so they would need to learn to forgive as they go along learning and begin to mesh together. Forgiveness is important things, but it is more important in the family because you are with your family for the rest of your life. It is important to get along with them, as well as have a good relationship, so that as your future family grows they will be close to their cousins and other relatives.