Conference weekend

   This past weekend has been just awesome, and quite amazing. Conference was such a huge spiritual feast for me. I can't begin to describe the many things that I felt and wrote down. Elder Meza and I had quite a few spiritual experiences outside of conference today, yesterday, the day before, and well the day before that. ;)

 Boy the Saturday Sessions were intense! :) I loved them! I was so excited for Conference. I could not wait to be taught by Prophets and Apostles, even the Spirit. I wish I understood the importance of General Conference before my mission. I love hearing the Prophets voice, as well as the Spirit's telling me that what I'm hearing is from God, and that everything I know to be true is true.

I went to Conference with a lot of thoughts directed toward the next six months of my mission, what I want to do, what should my focus be, things like that. However a lot of what I learned was for my future family. Haha, I was dumbfounded.

     I have to say my favorite part of conference was the Priesthood Session. I learned about how understanding the covenants of the Priesthood will enable me to serve the Lord better and in the way he wants. I learned that the Priesthood is Active, not Passive. You must use it. Doing Nothing is breaking that covenant. I mean just power instruction! :) I wrote down a lot of the promises from the Prophet and Apostles.

 I had that same impression recently at conference.

 I loved what you said, "The world has gotten so far away from even mentioning God .. its like the world is in limbo .. just living day to day and not really enjoying happiness.. Then people like you come along and rock their world." It's true. lol  I am so grateful for the Gospel Mom. We would be lost without it.

       To think that we have a living prophet. Wow! So many people I have met say things like “we don't need any more revelation in our days. We have the Bible. It's perfect. God doesn't call prophets.” How wrong they are. We need Prophets, we need revelations, we need all that the Gospel has for us.  

 How grateful I am for the blessing of living in days where there is a living prophet. God did not leave us with the Bible and say Good Luck! He always called prophets. Even people back then said the same things! We don't need revelation..we have the writings of Moses, we keep the law, the Lord doesn't call prophets. Heavenly Father is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He speaks to us today through a living prophet. The heavens are forever open as we listen to His servants. I love the words to the familiar primary song, "Follow the Prophet, Follow the Prophet, Follow the Prophet, He knows the way." I know we have a living prophet on the earth today. Thomas S. Monson is His prophet today.