Saturday, March 31, 2007
Conference Notes
I also love being able to watch/listen to General Conference. This year watching conference was a new experience for me with a baby. Although she did wonderfully and she napped at the beginning of both sessions, I still feel like I was a bit distracted when she was awake. I was able to really listen carefully to some of the talks, but I missed parts of other talks. I thought it would be helpful to hear what some of your favorite talks were, and why they stuck out to you. Sometimes it really helps me to have a deeper understanding when I hear what other people learned. So if you feel like sharing your thoughts and feelings from conference today or tomorrow (or both), please do so!
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I really enjoyed President Faust's talk this morning on forgiveness (I'm pretty sure it was President Faust but I just had audio stream going). Hearing about the Amish tragedy in more detail in terms of their faith and forgiveness was amazing. I love how President Faust described forgivness as freeing up energy, giving an opportunity to find new strengths and as "a liberating gift that people can give themselves". It truly is liberating. It's a waste of time and brain cells to hold grudges, time that you could spend loving and feeling joy.
I always love hearing President Hinckley's testimony. This morning I liked when he mentioned the reception that the lady who had done 20,000 endowments will receive in heaven. It reminded me how much I need to get to the temple.
I missed yesterday morning, but I heard that Jeffrey R. Holland's talk was really good. Did anyone hear that?
I loved Elder Oak's talk on divorce. I know that sounds weird but my husband and i were talking about the marriage article in the April Ensign and how much we enjoyed that and Elder Oaks' talk had a lot of similiarities on how to enrich marriages and keep them strong.
I agree Liz&Meg. I enjoyed that talk as well. I don't remember hearing a talk on divorce before.
Linz, Saturday morning session was one of my favorites, and I think Jeffrey R. Holland's talk WAS really good, but I don't remember which one it was, because I was listening to it on the internet, and I always miss when they announce the order of the speakers. I'm pretty sure you can already go on lds.org and listen to the sessions though. I also thought the talk today on forgiveness was really touching. Another one of my favorite talks was the one yesterday on the importance of the Church hymns. Neither my husband or I are singers, and although I don't mind trying...he is one of those guys who barely moves his lips to the songs! Whenever I try to do a song for FHE or something, he usually just ends up laughing at me! (He's not mocking the hymns, I think he's just uncomfortable singing.) Anyway, this talk really inspired me to give the Church hymns a more prominent place in our home.
I love how I always feel more inspired after Conference to do better at everything...working on family history, going to the temple, studying my scriptures, etc. The Brethren don't make us feel guilty for what we HAVEN'T done, they just help us have a genuine desire to do more. I think it was L. Tom Perry who said in the last session, not to put things off until tomorrow or next week. That's going to be my new goal, because I am definitely guilty of thinking to myself, "I'll start that tomorrow."
I wholeheartedly recommend going back and listening to Elder Holland's talk from Saturday morning. It was our very favorite talk of conference. In fact, as I was reading the other comments and getting ready to write this, my husband pulled up that talk and started listening to it again! It was about the power of words. He covered everything from verbal abuse to the importance of how we speak to our children, even very young ones. I was really moved, as that is something I have definitely been struggling with lately (my three year old is testing her limits...actually, she's been testing her limits since the moment she was born).
I thought Elder Holland's talk was excellent! Another talk that I really enjoyed was Elder Eyring's talk about "someday." He said we are often procrastinating, and we need to start today, not tomorrow. It really inspired me to stop thinking "well when things slow down and I have more time then I will start that..."
Another talk that I liked was the one about saying "I am" when people ask if you are on the Lord's side, it really gave me courage as a member missionary to let everyone know whose side I am on.
Also, Elder Uchtdorf's talk was powerful. Before I joined the church a few years ago (wow, actually it has been 5 years!), it seemed that the churches that I belonged to never taught or emphasized that there is never a "point of no return." We all sin, and satan wants us to believe that we are beyond the "point of safe return" to our Heavenly Father, but we never are. Our Savior took our sins upon him, and as long as we are willing to repent and change our ways, we can be forgiven. That is one of the most powerful pieces of knowledge that the missionaries shared with me. It is wonderful to know that our Father in Heaven and our Elder Brother are always waiting for us to turn to them, and through the Holy Spirit we can know that we are forgiven.
I have to echo Katie's comments about Sundays talks. I loved Elder Uchtdorf, Elder Eyring, and the YM president talks. I really enjoyed the Who's On the Lord's Side talk. I love how conference always gets me invigorated (sp?) and inspired to do better. Our ward has a goal for 90 days of family scripture and prayer-something my DH and I have always struggled with and we're making the goal as well and I love how this morning was cheery and happy rather than stressed because we read together and started our day with a prayer. I love inspired leaders!!
I loved President Faust's talk on forgiveness with the story of the Amish, and Elder Holland's talk was my favorite from the whole conference. I tend to "tease" my love ones a lot and be very sarcastic, so being reminded of just how important my words are is what I really needed.
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