I'm working on my "research" project of increasing gospel knowledge and endeavoring to live it... quite enjoying the journey these last few days! Yes!! feels good and on point!
Our thoughts of excitement grow with the thought of General Conference. You know that I'm a Conference addict and am planning food and getting ready for 2 days of solid spiritual feeding of my soul.
There are so many things available for children to do during Conference so I'm imagining that you Momma's, with the chicks in nest, are busy scouring the online sources and printing and cutting and planning. What a great tradition you can start!! I'd probably center mine around wearing pajamas and eating popcorn and having picture packets of the Prophets and Apostles and etc. Maybe words to listen for and get a jelly bean from a bowl at the end of the talk or something.
I don't have anyone here but my sweetie! Fortunately, for both of us, we love listening to every minute of Conference so we have no conflict. Plus we don't have any responsibility of getting children to places for Saturday obligations. Just the two of us...laser vision staring at the telly and loving it! 2 old sponges soaking up the goodness and feeling revived!!!
I wanted to share this 2006 quote by Elder Holland. Enjoy it!
The iron rod—the word of God—brings us safely through the mists of darkness.
During the concluding session of the October 2006 general conference, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained that hearing God’s voice through His servants is vital to spiritual survival in our day of dangers and difficulties: “Our times are turbulent and difficult. We see wars internationally and distress domestically. Neighbors all around us face personal heartaches and family sorrows. Legions know fear and troubles of a hundred kinds. This reminds us that when those mists of darkness enveloped the travelers in Lehi’s vision of the tree of life, it enveloped all of the participants—the righteous as well as the unrighteous, the young along with the elderly, the new convert and seasoned member alike. In that allegory all face opposition and travail, and only the rod of iron—the declared word of God—can bring them safely through. We all need that rod. We all need that word. No one is safe without it, for in its absence any can ‘[fall] away into forbidden paths and [be] lost,’ as the record says [1 Nephi 8:28; see also vv. 23–24]. How grateful we are to have heard God’s voice and felt the strength of that iron rod in this conference these past two days” (in Conference Report, Oct. 2006, 111–12; or Ensign, Nov. 2006, 105; emphasis added).
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