Then he ended up in the ER yesterday for hours while they gave him enough Rx to finally still his Viking soul! They kept trying and he kept on with the pain and then finally, after 4 hypo's and 2 pills and oxygen and yes, he did have a blessing, it stopped. He ended up sleeping all night and we both dozed today and now I feel ready to go at things again.
I say this not by way of complaint. It's just life and I realize that I most likely will ever make Plan A's and occasionally that may work out but I'm okay if it fizzles and drizzles and fades to less than a shadow of the original design.
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So Conference has come and gone and I'm still amazed at feeling every single word was something I needed to hear. I absorbed it and soaked it all up. Then I started to figure out how I want to use the Conference talks and challenges.
1-I decided as a base to read the Book of Mormon every single day. I do read a lot and always reference it and read verses scattered about but I'm going to systematically read it and do like President Nelson and watch for a few key things that I'm interested in...Altars...Pride...Feelings...Hauling records around...Land of Promise. Maybe I'll change those and maybe I won't but I will watch for things. I might watch for Heart connected with Feelings.
Years ago I remember reading this and also hearing it quoted over the years--
President Harold B. Lee...
As the Latter-day Saints go home from this conference, it would be well if they consider seriously the importance … of this conference and let it be the guide to their walk and talk during the next six months. These are the important matters the Lord sees fit to reveal to this people in this day” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1946, 67–68).
2-That is what I want to do. I want to be very aware of what was talked about and figure out how to live it and have that be my focus for the next 6 months. Let it be my walk and talk as best I can.
If I counted correctly there are 35 talks. We meet in 6 months so I will just get busy studying them. I'm going to read all of the footnotes or are the endnotes?, whatever they are...I love to read them. It's like all of the things the speaker wanted to share but couldn't because of time constraints.
Today I enjoyed, rather loved, Sister Eubank's talk. In her endnotes she has 7 fantastic quotes of what Prophets have said about the importance of women PLUS she has the Conference source that you can go to and hear Sister Camilla Kimball read President Kimball's Woman's Conference address (he was in the hospital). His words read by her really impacted me right up to now. The talk where women should be Sister Scholars and Sister Scriptorians. Also where he talks about women in the last days. I know I've mentioned that talk several times over the years but it was just fantastic to hear it brought to the forefront in 2017!!
(A total aside. Sister Camilla Kimball's brother is President Eyring. In Homer, President and Sister Kimball's granddaughter, named Camilla after her Grandma, served an Alaskan Mission and she was in Homer. She and my daughter were dear friends and we spent a lot of time with her. When President Eyring was called to something, at a General Conference, and she was watching Conference with us, she said...oh, that's Uncle Hank! As I said. Totally an aside.)
So I have loved taking his challenge of learning and studying the Gospel and I'll continue a concentrated study for these next 5 months with the recent talks being my study guide and having faith it will become my walk and talk as President Lee mentioned.
I have already scanned through several of the talks but today I read Sister Eubanks and her footnotes/endnotes. Tomorrow I will start reading all of the Conference talks she referenced. It's all made so easy with just clicking and it takes you right to the source! I need to have a refresher and use my tablet and mark and make notes.
Todays takeaway for me was this thought....sounds like a good walk and talk to me!
Any small thing you do to light real happiness in others shows that you are already carrying the torch that President Kimball lit. --Sister Eubank
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(had to look it up. I am reading all endnotes! You already knew, didn't you??)
- The biggest difference between footnotes and endnotes is where the notes are placed. Footnotes appear at the bottom of the page for any notes that apply to each specific page; endnotes appear collectively at the end of a paper, starting on a separate page and labeled as “Endnotes.”.
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