I loved listening to conference Saturday and Sunday night. I especially loved the Sunday afternoon session. Um...I'm going to copy and paste what I e-mailed to my dad. It's too easy.
Great sessions today, especially the last. I loved Elder Bednar's talk on prayer. I have really been trying to focus on making my prayers more meaningful of late. A sister in our ward shared something she learned on her mission a few Sundays ago. She said to ask Heavenly Father what we should pray for. It seemed a little bizarre but I was intrigued. I tried it a few nights ago and immediately had about four very distinct impressions fill my head of things I should pray for. Some were just things that had slipped out of my regular prayers and others were things that I should have thought to pray for but hadn't. It worked again last night as well. Plus, now those things are more in my mind throughout the day and I can say little prayers. One of the impressions was that I should pray for the time to say meaningful prayers and to meditate. I've been wanting to be better but always feel so tired and rushed. It was really neat to immediately feel that time for prayer was something I should pray for and yet had never thought of asking for. Poor Sadie heard a story by Elder Bednar. It was about a little four year old girl that died and Sadie was bawling for about 45 minutes. We said a prayer that she would feel better, that she would know that the little girl was happy in Heaven, and she also asked me to ask Heavenly Father to not let her die so she wouldn't leave our family. It was pretty sweet (the Sadie story was from an e-mail to Mike).
It was amazing to really see the mantle rest on Pres. Monson. It just hadn't seemed real to me until today that he was our prophet. I have no doubt in my mind that he is our living prophet on the earth. I also loved M. Russel Ballard's talk for young mothers.
m. russel ballard
young mothers
no role in life more essential or more eternal
no one way to be a perfect mother
crucial to focus on the children the time that they are with us
this falls to mothers and fathers
mothers are primary nurturers
four questions
1. What can you do as a mother to reduce pressure?
Joy comes in fleeting moments, don't rush past these moments. Live in the moment. do a little more, get done a little less
2. don't over schedule yourselves.
unstructured time.
3. find some time for yourselves to cultivate interests.
replenish yourself. Avoid any kind of substance abuse. don't waste time surfing the internet or watching t.v,
4. pray, study, and teach the gospel.
what can a husband do? show more appreciation, more validation. recognize her work, give wife a day away, discuss needs of each child, come home from work and take an active role in families
what can children do to help mom? pick up toys, make bed, dishes, without being asked, say thank you more often, tell your mom you love her.
what can the church do? ward leaders be especially watchful and be wise what they are asked to do at this time in their lives.
by small and simple things are great things brought to pass- my favorite scripture:).
I also liked the talk on family traditions from the Saturday morning session. I started a couple of minutes late so I didn't catch who gave the talk but here are those notes-
What is good, more importantly what is good enough?
3 Nephi 6&14
Mosiah
Our personal conversion comes from living the way God would have us live, personal refinement comes from making an effort to make ourselves better each day.
make our traditions righteous traditions
are our family traditions giving our children a firm foundation in the Lord?
service, activity in the church, love and respect in the home, prayer, scripture study should be some of these traditions
giving our children the knowledge that we are always standing on the Lord's side.
L. Tom Perry also gave an excellent talk about The Book of Mormon and its importance in relation to the Bible. I really want to share this with my friend Jasmine. She asked me about this specifically a few weeks ago. I hope I can find a time to have her watch just that talk.
Today itself was kind of a tough day for all of us. Let me show you our Spring Break weather-
But... when this is how you wake up in the morning things can't be too terribly bad.
Tomorrow we are supposed to have some sun so hopefully we'll get out for a little bit. I think that's enough of me for tonight.
Blog out, Brooke
Great sessions today, especially the last. I loved Elder Bednar's talk on prayer. I have really been trying to focus on making my prayers more meaningful of late. A sister in our ward shared something she learned on her mission a few Sundays ago. She said to ask Heavenly Father what we should pray for. It seemed a little bizarre but I was intrigued. I tried it a few nights ago and immediately had about four very distinct impressions fill my head of things I should pray for. Some were just things that had slipped out of my regular prayers and others were things that I should have thought to pray for but hadn't. It worked again last night as well. Plus, now those things are more in my mind throughout the day and I can say little prayers. One of the impressions was that I should pray for the time to say meaningful prayers and to meditate. I've been wanting to be better but always feel so tired and rushed. It was really neat to immediately feel that time for prayer was something I should pray for and yet had never thought of asking for. Poor Sadie heard a story by Elder Bednar. It was about a little four year old girl that died and Sadie was bawling for about 45 minutes. We said a prayer that she would feel better, that she would know that the little girl was happy in Heaven, and she also asked me to ask Heavenly Father to not let her die so she wouldn't leave our family. It was pretty sweet (the Sadie story was from an e-mail to Mike).
It was amazing to really see the mantle rest on Pres. Monson. It just hadn't seemed real to me until today that he was our prophet. I have no doubt in my mind that he is our living prophet on the earth. I also loved M. Russel Ballard's talk for young mothers.
m. russel ballard
young mothers
no role in life more essential or more eternal
no one way to be a perfect mother
crucial to focus on the children the time that they are with us
this falls to mothers and fathers
mothers are primary nurturers
four questions
1. What can you do as a mother to reduce pressure?
Joy comes in fleeting moments, don't rush past these moments. Live in the moment. do a little more, get done a little less
2. don't over schedule yourselves.
unstructured time.
3. find some time for yourselves to cultivate interests.
replenish yourself. Avoid any kind of substance abuse. don't waste time surfing the internet or watching t.v,
4. pray, study, and teach the gospel.
what can a husband do? show more appreciation, more validation. recognize her work, give wife a day away, discuss needs of each child, come home from work and take an active role in families
what can children do to help mom? pick up toys, make bed, dishes, without being asked, say thank you more often, tell your mom you love her.
what can the church do? ward leaders be especially watchful and be wise what they are asked to do at this time in their lives.
by small and simple things are great things brought to pass- my favorite scripture:).
I also liked the talk on family traditions from the Saturday morning session. I started a couple of minutes late so I didn't catch who gave the talk but here are those notes-
What is good, more importantly what is good enough?
3 Nephi 6&14
Mosiah
Our personal conversion comes from living the way God would have us live, personal refinement comes from making an effort to make ourselves better each day.
make our traditions righteous traditions
are our family traditions giving our children a firm foundation in the Lord?
service, activity in the church, love and respect in the home, prayer, scripture study should be some of these traditions
giving our children the knowledge that we are always standing on the Lord's side.
L. Tom Perry also gave an excellent talk about The Book of Mormon and its importance in relation to the Bible. I really want to share this with my friend Jasmine. She asked me about this specifically a few weeks ago. I hope I can find a time to have her watch just that talk.
Today itself was kind of a tough day for all of us. Let me show you our Spring Break weather-
But... when this is how you wake up in the morning things can't be too terribly bad.
Tomorrow we are supposed to have some sun so hopefully we'll get out for a little bit. I think that's enough of me for tonight.
Blog out, Brooke
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