{"id":24,"date":"2012-09-08T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/2012\/09\/08\/remembering-names\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T00:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T00:17:00","slug":"remembering-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/remembering-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Names"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cRemember that a man’s\u00a0<\/span>name<\/em>\u00a0is to him\u00a0<\/span>the sweetest<\/em>\u00a0and most important\u00a0<\/span>sound<\/em>\u00a0in any language.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
– Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

For the past couple of weeks, I have started my new job as a Peer Mentor through BYU’s Freshman Mentoring program. \u00a0 As soon as I came to BYU a year ago and met my peer mentor, I knew it was a job I would love participating in. \u00a0Being a mentor at Chandler Prep and being the oldest of seven children, I have always found myself in that “mentor” role. \u00a0I’m an Anthropology major, so I love to meet people, get to know them, and understand them.<\/p>\n

Getting ready for New Student Orientation brought some anxiety but mostly excitement. \u00a0I had been training to meet these students for so long, and I finally got to meet them and get to know them! \u00a0And once I did, everything became so tangible. \u00a0Names became faces, and the real work began.<\/p>\n

Now, something I don’t like to admit – I can’t remember names. \u00a0I will recognize so many faces around campus – of people I’ve never even met. \u00a0I have a favorite couple I see walking around everywhere, but they probably have no idea who I am. \u00a0She works in the Science and Maps section of the library, and they’re quite adorable. \u00a0I know their faces, but I could never tell you their names. \u00a0With this lack of a gift that I have, I was worried about NSO. \u00a0For the days before it, I kept praying that I could remember names. \u00a0I still keep praying for that. \u00a0Because “a man’s name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” <\/p>\n

I mean, honestly, if someone calls me by my name, I feel valued. \u00a0They know my name; they remember me. \u00a0And I would hate to make someone feel like they are not valued by not remembering their name. \u00a0And guess what? \u00a0I am remembering names so much more now! \u00a0A simple prayer that has been answered and has strengthened me.<\/p>\n

God knows each of us by name. \u00a0He can name all of his children by name. \u00a0Jesus Christ suffered for each of us individually. \u00a0He knows our name, our deepest fears, our happiest joys, and our hardest trials. \u00a0My burdens are His burdens. \u00a0And when I can’t sleep at night when I’m thinking about my students, because I care so much about them already, I know Christ has mine and their burdens too. \u00a0I love Him, and I am eternally grateful that He will forever know my name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cRemember that a man’s\u00a0name\u00a0is to him\u00a0the sweetest\u00a0and most important\u00a0sound\u00a0in any language.” – Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People For the past couple of weeks, I have started my new job as a Peer Mentor through BYU’s Freshman Mentoring program. \u00a0 As soon as I came to BYU a year ago and met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}