We are watching General Conference. I love conference and always absolutely need it so much every time it is time (every 6 months) to listen.
I encourage all my LDS friends to make a meal to take to the missionaries at church tonight or tomorrow because they are there all weekend. I do this every conference and the reaction is just amazing every time. It is a special gift I like to give them.
I am sending Matt tonight with chicken spaghetti. It is a perfect for our missionaries, hearty, yummy, and easy to re-heat.
I love my membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The foundations of the Gospel have made me a better everything and encourages me to strive toward the person I want to be every time I focus on my relationship with my family and my Heavenly Father.
It is my hope to always focus on those two things first and foremost. I will be adding comments after each session.
Loved THIS about the women who talk in the "Primary Voice" I totally smiled and wanted to hug her. I get the consternation though, I thought I was the only one who noticed it, but I agree with the person who wrote the first comment as much as I agree with the author.
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Session one:
My heart is full. I love that there will be a temple in Lisbon. My friend, Ryan, is there for graduate school (he said "no" to MIT), and I feel a special excitement for him.
I loved Elder Holland's talk and his true gratitude for those doing what they need to do and just doing it. I love him always, but his mention of his mother who had to get a job and sacrifice so that he could go on a mission and not have to come back with "nothing" just touched my heart so much. I understand that.
I also loved Elder Christoferson's talk. He gave sound advise about being your best self. I am so glad he talked about choosing sound entertainment. It is a constant struggle in my family with a daughter whose LDS friends watch programs that are just soooo offensive but so popular. The "Glee" one just kills me. Blatent sex, sex, sex and glorified even.
I loved Elder Uchdorf too!! One really is no better with a full "to do" list! It is true! I prefer a minimal list of "to do" outside the home now that I have strived to have the feeling of being important with a long one... it made me miserable and angry at times. Now, I like to have the bare minimum, it is better that way.
I loved Session I!
The second session was fine- nothing really remarkable about this session for me. I did like the talk Brother Gong gave and that Elder Cook referred to the same list about the prophet by President Benson. That must mean something. I am tired... Conference weekend is tiring, but awesome. Now for Matt to leave in an hour for Priesthood.
Session III. Oh my HECK, I wish I was just like I was when I first joined the church. I would listen to every session of conference (at chruch, dressed up) and nod and agree with everything. There was a certain talk today that I really do not agree with. At all. I kept trying to tell Matt that some trials are NOT choices. In fact, I was nauseous over the statement that God would not allow his children be born homosexual. Really? I do not agree. That is all I will say about that, but I have lots of thoughts.
I did LOVE Elder Eyring's talk (always) and was sad to see his limp and I LOVE LOVE LOVE President Monson's talk about gratitude. He is right, I have no problem accepting the words given by the prophet. I accept him fully.
What a redeeming, amazing, lovely session IV. I love Elder Perry. I am grateful he looks out for his male descendants so much. I am not saying this in an ironic manner. I really do love it. He spoke here a couple years ago. He really does care about our children, but he has a special interest in good young men. I recognize and embrace that.
I also LOVE Elder Bednar always. His talk on the effort receiving the Holy Ghost was perfect. I just loved it. He is right, we all need to continually strive to have the love and companionship of the Holy Ghost.
Larry Lawrence's talk really has spoken to me. Valerie and I had a lovely talk about teenagers and wise choices and trusting my and Matt's decisions. I love that. It really IS so important. I love that he gave so much credit to the understanding of the youth. I also love the clarity in explaining why premature relationships are discouraged. The awesome thing is that exact sentiment was shared with our girls last week in Young Women. I like the list of things to make sure to do to have a strong family. Finally, the advise on sleepovers was perfect. I am the world's most-strict parent about this.
I like Brother Malm and his admonishion to watch out for things that can destroy from the inside out and to make pancakes from broken eggs. Gentle persuasion and reaction are so important in this life.
Brother Arnold's talk is perfection. I can not explain why, but every sentence had me in tears. I want to learn more from this brother. I just loved that talk. I think the funniest quote would be "You STUPID cow!" but it does not even come close to explaining the beauty of this talk. Envision with my now, the Savior's embrace... I just love him.
Elder Ballard's talk was also much-needed and just amazing. I have so many thoughts on how overcoming addiction has blessed my family. I just talked that talk and the sentiments.
President Monson really is an amazing, kind, loving man. I am so glad he is our prophet. I truly love him.
BKP's talk really insensed me too and confirmed to me that everything said in GC is NOT scripture. Just opinions, and they can be wrong. Monson is a beautiful man, but nothing prophetic ever comes out of his mouth. Just heart warming warm fuzzy stories about widows and being greatful. It would be nice to hear some real prophecy from a prophet. But I guess that's why they preach "faith" so much, because we have no proof of this so called truth.
Barb,
I love President Monson so much, not in a grandfather way, not in a friend way, but in a way, I suppose, that is reserved for the prophet. He is so kind and good. I felt in the General Relief Society, I could see so clearly, the burdens of the world on his face. He looked so tired and sad...
With all the talks that mentioned heeding the words of the prophet, I was expecting some grand statements and was a little confused by the talk on gratitude. Although that talk was just wonderful, it is nothing like I was expecting. Then I have to think... Well, BKP is a "prophet, seer and revelator" maybe THAT is what those talks were pointing toward... Then I remember the gay flies, frogs,etc that do not have a "choice" and my friends who have been "different" than others since childhood. I dunno. It is just confusing. What I DO know is that I have great love and sadness for those for whom sexuality is a struggle. That is so hard. I am blessed it has not been a struggle for me. I can not imagine it then being told that my "unnatural" tendancies are a choice... that is pretty masochistic, eh?
Thank you for the comment, I appreciate it.
I know you don't know me so I apologize for stalking your blog, but it peaked my interest for some reason. Don't ask me how I even got here...
I noticed also how extremely tired President Monson looked. He didn't look happy, his smile was forced, and I wonder how he could've approved Packer's talk. What upsets me is that I have many friends and some family who are gay. They didn't choose this, they have been this way their whole lives and this talk only would turn them away because it's obvious the GA's don't really know about scientific evidence proving that most gay people are BORN with it. If you haven't read this already, this is a letter written back in 1999 to Packer by the father of a gay son. It's very touching.
http://www.lds-mormon.com/hardy.shtml
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