Ok, now I owe you three posts. I messed up. I went to the Relief Society activity and was going to catch up on my posts after and instead went to bed totally forgetting about my poor blog until this morning. So here is Day 8.
08. Your favorite woman in the church and why? (Past or present)
I would have to say Emma Smith. She is truly one of the most inspirational women ever. I know this isn't something that I should look up to her for but when her parents didn't approve of her marrying Joseph, she agreed to run away with him. This is technically a character flaw, disobeying her parents but I look at it a little differently. I think a big part of the reason she wanted to marry him was because of his belief and devotion to what would later become the Church and her large desire to be a part of that great work and be able to support him. That my friends is admirable.
I also really admire her for her later devotion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and her unending faith. I can only imagine the things that this great woman went through. She lost many of her children without being able to spend much time with them. Her first son, Alvin (named after Joseph's elder brother who had passed) lived only a few hours. Her twins, Thaddeus and Louisa, also died after just a few hours. She was blessed to be "given" the Murdock twins, Joseph and Julia, to raise since their mother died giving birth. But again, tragedy struck when Joseph died of pneumonia when the door was left open when Joseph was dragged out in the middle of the night to be tarred and feathered. So quick recap, within three years, she has had five children and lost FOUR of them. How hardbreaking. I know that it was more common back then to lose children because medicine wasn't as good but still hard, hard, hard.
She also had to endure many periods of time away from her husband, much like me right now. However, his periods of absence were because of hiding from the law or being incarcerated. I'm not sure I could ever emotionally handle sorrow like that. And then add on top of all of this, Joseph's death was when she was pregnant with their last child. Goodness gracious, the level of sorrow must have been super high. She was such a young widow, they hadn't been married long and then to be pregnant when you lose your husband!! She was a remarkable woman and I really look up to and admire her.
Ok, I know I stink lately with this blog challenge but I promise one of these days I will catch up. Just not tonight..
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