It's OK to be clean

This morning, for my YW calling, I attended a beehive conference with the cute little beehives from my ward. The speakers did a wonderful job, and gave me everything I needed for my lesson tomorrow to the mia maids. :) They told a story called,

"It's OK to be clean"
     This story is about a young man on a high school football team. Most football teams in the summer have "two-a-days" where they practice in the morning, then have lunch, and come back in the afternoon for another practice. Most of the team would practice in the morning, get all muddy and sweaty and dirty and go to lunch together at fast food restaurants looking all grubby, then go back and practice again. One particular young man on the team would practice in the morning, then go home where he would shower and his mom would make him lunch and launder his uniform before he went back out to practice that afternoon. He started getting made fun of. The other guys would call him a "momma's boy" and tease him for having to go home every day to see his mom and clean his uniform. He soon told his mom that he didn't want to come home anymore for lunch and that he would just stay with the team. She insisted that he come home each day and she told him, "I do these things for you because that is how I show my love to you. And, it's OK to be clean." It's OK to be clean because that is how we show our love to Heavenly Father.

Relating this to being clean in thought, word, deed, and speech, I feel that it is very important to teach our children and remind ourselves that it is ok to be clean. The world will tell us otherwise. The world will teach our children that being clean (morally) is not exciting, or worth it, or cool, or popular.

Here is a poem I like:

It's ok to be clean,
It's ok to be You.
Pray unto the Lord,
And you'll know it too.