What a Conference weekend!

I love General Conference weekend. It’s not the most relaxing lay around doing nothing type of weekend. But it is a very filling weekend.

My mom taught me that if you want to be nice to a mom you are nice to her kids. We always spend one day of Conference with our friends in Mesa. So I made some conference dinosaurs for their kids. They turned out real cute and worked up real fast. I can make a dinosaur body in about 30 minutes. Doing all the finishing details takes a bit longer.

Whenever I make something it always gives me a huge feeling of satisfaction when it is loved, and these dinosaurs were loved. They also loved listening to Conference.

I absolutely loved Conference. All three of the topics/questions I had were addressed (peace was one of them). I even high-fived Brett during a talk on Sunday when the speaker said exactly the same thing that he and I had been discussing Friday night. All told I marked nine talks that were just for me. The rest were real good too, of course.

Which is why I’m always surprised to show up on the internet after conference and find some kind of controversy around one or two of the talks. Especially because the controversial talk is generally one I absolutely loved. I have a hard time understanding how people can be that offended by truth. This mortal life is not perfect, but the truths are. When one of the talks is about something that is maybe not going the way I want it to in my life, I take comfort in knowing that it can, and will, get better, that I have something to strive for. Brett and I did comment to each other at one point that the promises of the eternities would be more comforting if we could see the eternities, but that is where faith comes in. My faith is not perfect. My faith has weak areas. I have weak moments. But if the standards were not set where they are they would not encourage the growth that we need. I was brought to the brink of tears several times during Conference. But they were tears of comfort and relief, not sadness.

Some notes that I might want put on the bathroom mirror to constantly remind me of them over the next six months:

• You will have all the wisdom you have the power to exercise.
• I did not keep a testimony through my trials, my testimony kept me.
• Compared to God we are nothing. Yet we are everything to God.
• Devote our time to things that matter most. God matters most.
• Look up. Step up. Cheer up.
• Wait means to hope and trust. Stand fast. Press forward.
• He knows your sacrifices and sorrows. He hears your prayers. His peace and rest will be yours as you continue to wait upon him in faith.
• Fear thou not for I am with thee.
• The things that are important to us become important to God because He loves us.
• Don’t just say prayers, live them.
• We are unaware of hosts of blessings that come into our lives from day to day.
• Adverse experiences are not always a result of lack of faith or personal fault.
• Be still, and know that I am God

What are your thoughts from General Conference?