People are super busy. So it was kind of a tricky
transition to get to the point where it was like, "OK, what
are we supposed to do here? How can we make this happen? What do we need to do?" But once we started figuring
it out and realizing it was simpler than we were
worrying that it should be, things went a lot better. [SPEAKING SPANISH] It's a little bit
of a challenge to us because we have six
kids to gather together. And then we are both working,
so the children really urged us together as family. It's the time that we
can talk to our children about their individual
goals so that we could be able to support
them and to assist them. And we see the changes
of our children that they are happy and
having good relationship to each other. And our children also develop
their skills and talents. There were so many
times where Carolyn wanted to quit the band. It was hard. She'd come home with
her legs hurting. She'd come home with
her feet hurting. And she just said, "I
don't want to do this. This is stupid. I don't want to do this. This is hard." And we'd have to say, "We have
to learn how to do hard things, because life's going to
be full of hard things." And the minute you make a goal,
the minute you have a plan, you're figuring out how to
accomplish that hard thing. And then you do, and
you realize, "Oh, I can do hard things." And then the next thing
becomes a little bit easier. I think one of the
challenges or roadblocks is not getting
discouraged, just realizing that that is part of the
process is learning and growing, and that that is also a part
of applying the Atonement is as we fail in certain goals
or as we seemingly fail, that we are learning
how to set goals and how to change
that in the future. If we had a little
bit of discouragement at a goal that hasn't quite
come to pass the way we thought, we might have to make
some adjustments to it. Start with things
you can accomplish. And if they don't work
out after a week or two, teach your children that
wonderful process of modifying, and then go forward again. It's not broken. You have the power,
and the faith, and the ability to
fix it and to mold it to fill your family's needs. Sometimes you have to deal with
them not necessarily failing but not accomplishing
a goal, and help them understand that you
always learn more from failing. We say that all the time. You'll always learn more from
failing than from winning, so what can you learn from this? So I think it's
important for kids to know that you set a goal. And if you can't quite
meet that goal, it's OK. You go back. You change it
however you need to, and then you can move forward
in a really positive way. Amen.