General Conference was awesome this weekend. It was a spiritual feast. And by that, I mean a veritable Butterball turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and ALL the fixin's. It nourished my soul and made me fat with testimony.
I especially loved Elder Holland's talk, and have never heard such a powerful declaration of the truth of the Book of Mormon in all my life. Many of those same thoughts came to my mind when I first read the Book of Mormon, but as a 16 year old girl I would have never been able to articulate the impressions that he so succinctly put into words. If you missed it, here is the link. It's from the Sunday PM session, and it's the 5th segment.
I also loved Elder Bednar's talk from Saturday A.M. (11th segment of that session) and his assurance that we need not put pressure on ourselves to be perfect in our parenting. He put it all into perspective: Our kids aren't going to remember any solitary lessons or prayers for the rest of their lives. But they will remember that we prayed and that we taught them correct principles. And I was so thankful to know that someone whom I esteem so greatly has endured the same things we all have as parents: "Quit touching me!" "Tell him to stop looking at me!" "Mommy! He's breathing my air!" ...during family prayer. Just the other night, I was getting exasperated with the boys' stall tactics at bedtime and caught myself raising my voice, saying, "KNOCK IT OFF! IT'S TIME TO PRAY!" We had a good chuckle at that one.
I know. Not a typical joke bag post from me this time, but food for thought. Not a feast, mind you... More like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on Wonder Bread.
All this talk of food is making me hungry. I should go see if Wayne needs help in the kitchen.
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Loved the post, and both of those talks were amazing.
I greatly enjoyed conference as well. So many of the talks and musical numbers touched me personally. Elder Holland's talk was incredible.
Megga Dittos, girl! We too loved Elder Bednar's & Holland's talks. I was just telling Tyler that I wish we could go to church-conference every week. Tyler says I wouldn't appreciate it as much, but I think I have to disagree. Those talks were all so wonderful!!
Can you believe I did not watch or listen to conference..... I am glad you watched and enjoyed it.
I enjoyed the same talks! Conference was so awesome this time (not that it is usually awful or anything...). And, sometimes I prefer peanut butter and jelly on wonder bread. :-)
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