Stake Conference

This weekend was Stake Conference :) I love Stake Conference! I especially love the adult session the night before.  It always seems like a huge multi date night.  I love it. I love seeing all the couples.  I love the extra quietness that is there.  I love how when the speaker mentions how much he loves his wife/husband all the couples scootch a little closer. I love how it is such a time for couples to grow. :) I love it!

Some things I picked up with I was sitting next to my hubby:

1.  It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.  I don't know if you have heard that before, I haven't.  I fell in love with that. What a true statement that is.  That is really something I needed to hear. It reminds me of our of my favorite songs, The Dance by Garth.  "And now I'm glad I didn't know . . . The way it all would end . . . The way it all would go . . . Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain . . . But I'd of had to miss the dance!" I love that. Sometimes after you go through a trial you think of all the things you could have avoided to avoid the trail. Now I am talking about a Trail... not a test, such as a consequence for a choice you made.  (Which yes, it was come in to play also when its a test, but then you would want to avoid those things.) But with a trail you wouldn't want to avoid them.. I don't know if that makes any sense.  I guess a good example I was thinking of would be when Joseph Smith was killed.  The saints had that trail to go through and they did not know that was going to happen or could they have stopped it. So the main phrase "It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark" the saints could have avoided the pain of loosing the Prophet if they would have not chosen to be a member of the church.  But ya see some trails are worth it.  It was worth for Noah to build the Ark - and in that case it had a great outcome. As in the song by Garth there wasn't a good outcome, but in either case I think it was worth it to go through the trail.  The speaker who mentioned the phrase, related it to Faith, which yes, I see also, but I guess that's the job of conference you get that personal message. 

2.  Everyone has there own trails.  A fb status recently read - if everyone were to put there trails all in the same pile and you where to see everyone elses, you would quickly take yours back.  We all have trails and they are all different but yet the way to solve them is always the same. It reminds me of math.  The equations are always different but the formula to solve them is always the same.  I see the Gospel the same way.  No matter what you do or have to go through, the way to overcome it is the same. Whether its a healing process or repentance process the Gospel gives us basic steps we can take to get that end outcome. When I really think about it, it makes me so happy because I know that the knowledge is there.  Its not a big secret or a big mystery.  How lucky are we?! 

3. Healing, Help, Hope - I think that's going to be my new YW motto.  There is a whole lot of thinking behind this quote, but that may take another post. :)

4.  As long as we keep our temple covenant our eternal salvation is sure. Again, the simpleness of the Gospel blows my mind. I am so amazed how the pieces of the Gospel all just fall into place and make sense.  We are constantly striving to make sure we can return to our Heavenly Father, and I know at times I think and think and boggle my mind what the exact path way and then we are reminded that if we simple just do what we promised to do we will be just fin. Amazingness!

After conference Lori and Sarah and I got together and had some FBI fun :) It was ubber nice having Sarah in town and having Lori make some time to chill.  We are three hotties! :)