A Fabulous Stake Conference

I was blessed to attend a wonderful stake conference this weekend. I felt the Spirit so strongly during both the adult session last night and our general session this morning. I'm grateful for the reminders of things I already know to be true: I am known and loved by my Heavenly Father and my elder brother, Jesus Christ. I matter to them. I'm important to them. I belong to the only true church on the earth. We are led by a living prophet today and he speaks for God and Christ. The Book of Mormon and the Holy Bible are the word of God.

We had a visiting General Authority, Elder Glenn L. Pace, in attendance at our conference sessions. I'm grateful that I was able to hear the witness of an Apostle of God of the truthfulness of this gospel. I'm thankful for the warmth of the Spirit witnessing to me those same truths. Elder Pace challenged the youth (and then the rest of us) to reread Joseph Smith History so I thought I'd share that challenge with all of you, too.

A sweet woman spoke last night and said something I thought to be very profound, something I've never really thought of before. She was talking about how we compare ourselves to others. She said she was grateful that she's never felt as if Heavenly Father compared her to one of His other children. I just loved that and hope I can remember that thought when I find myself feeling inadequate and unimportant.

Our Stake President talked last night about obedience. Members of my family are struggling right now and I know that if they were able to just be obedient to Heavenly Father and the truths of this gospel, they would be so much happier. Things in their life would be better and they would be able to make it through difficult times. I know it sounds simple and easy but really, it is. The Lord cannot bless us until we are obedient.

I'm so grateful for Stake Conference. I grew up in a home where we'd generally think of this weekend as a day off from church. I'm so glad I attend conference regularly now. I love the feeling of a full-to-the-brim Stake Center, surrounded by my brothers and sisters who are striving for the same things that I'm striving for. It's such a wonderful blessing to belong to this church. I am one lucky girl.