So let me just say, general conference was amazing. I can not believe I wasted 18 years of my life hardly paying attention. I took notes like a madman and basically just ended up copying half the talks, so I got some summarizing to do. I loved President Thomas s. Monson's Sunday morning talk. His testimony is so powerful, he could barley breath or stand, but he was going with the full power of God and the Holy Ghost. I am really worried we are going to lose him soon, I still miss Scott, Perry, and Packard.
(For those of you who are non members, General Conference happens every 6 months and is when our Prophet, 12 apostles, and other church leaders get up and give us guidance and word of God. It is pretty sweet, you should check it out. This year we had 3 of the 12 apostles die, but 3 more were called this conference.)
The conference seems like a lot of words and people testifying, But that is one thing I never thought I could get to, the point where I hung on every word. It is the coolest thing ever, I learn so much. And some talks speak to me more than others, but I found that if we pray beforehand, and try to prepare ourselves and invite the spirit, conference, just like the scriptures, opens up. What they talk about directly applies to what we need to hear, to learn, and to apply. The Spirit is so necessary to learning anything spiritual. It says it best in Corinthians chapter 2:
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
God gives understanding through the Spirit, and we need the Spirit to understand the Lord's things, spiritual things.
And I had a cool experience this week. We had a church tour on saturday with Valerie, which basically just means we show an investigator around the church and then teach them a lesson in the chapel where the spirit is super strong. And the spirit was insanely strong. Valerie has been reading in the book of Mormon, but still felt she hadn't received her answer yet, but she felt something special there. We taught her in the chapel, and then gave her a blessing of comfort for some of her trials, and she was almost crying. We asked if she had received an answer, and she said yes, but that she had no idea how she was going to get her family to go along with it. It was a great experience, and just shows more that the Spirit is needed in all we do, and we can't know truth without it.
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