We started out early today. But what an amazing day!!!
Chris Williams--amazing! Tear jerker! He lost his wife and 2 kids to a teenage drunk driver. He talked about how he was able to let it go and forgive this young man. He tells us there is a 3 step process when faced with grief: 1. Let it go and have faith to be healed. 2. Buck up--all is not lost and to have hope. 3. Move forward--get busy serving others. Confront evil with goodness.
Sandra Turley was one of our performers. She's a singer and amazing. She's beautiful and appears to be perfect. Her story was also a tear jerker for me. She had gone through years and years of infertility. When she finally came to terms and accepted it, they decided to adopt. They got a 5 lb baby girl, and almost 45 days later, the birth mom wanted her back. So heart wrenching to go through this I'm sure. When they got over that loss, they decided to start over at square one and went back to the doctor. The doctor informed them she was already pregnant. At this point she tells us she'd like to show us her family....a picture pops up and she has 4 kids!!!! Amazing! Major tear jerker for me at that point. She goes on to tell us that Heavenly Father is thinking of us all the time.
Those 2 were probably my favorite.
John Hilton was next. We need to discover who we really are and look beyond the daily routine of life. (Exactly what I've been struggling with.) We need to tap into the vision of what God has in store for us. When there is no vision, people perish. And the mundane can be miraculous.
We brought our lunch and took a walk to find a place to eat it. It was nice.
Merrilee Boyak was dynamic. She has so much passion for what she believes in and stands for. We are sent here in these latter days when the Lord needs us. The battle of good vs evil is all around us. The adversary puts reluctance in our heart. We need to have more courage to speak up. She told a story of her mother. Her mother was really meek. And she attended a mormon bashing event with 4,000 people. After an hour of the pastor saying lies about the church. She stood up and denounced everything he said and invited all to ask her questions about our church afterwards in the foyer. What an amazing and bold woman. We need to catch a glimpse of who we really are and what we are capable of. We are all sent here to defend the family now. We need to stand together as women to protect our family against Satan. Share what we know and believe and support each other. The most dangerous things in our home come from a plug. Eliminate all evil from our home and protect our children!! (This was one of the most important things I got from this...we need to protect our children.)
Laurel Christensen Day talked about letting go of our fears. Do not stop asking what we want the most. We fought for the plan to make choices, that is more important to Heavenly Father than our happiness. There is peace on the other side of brave. God loves us, we need to trust him.
And that was the end of the conference. I'm looking forward to when we can go back again. Amazing!
We then met up with Dad and went out to eat. We went back to the hotel and watched Ephraim's Rescue. And that video just added more fuel to my fire.
I started this weekend out by taking Katy through the temple...what a great start! And then to also feel the Spirit this weekend. It was just an amazing weekend...so grateful to our husbands for letting this happen!
