Sunday, October 05, 2014

         Conference was inspiring, giving counsel and direction in facing the days ahead.  I love the phrase that we get our “marching orders” for the next six months at each General Conference although the applied lessons last much longer.  I am so grateful for a living prophet whom we know we can trust and to whom we can look with confidence for direction.  As well, of course, we can look to his counselors and the Twelve Apostles for inspired guidance.  We are richly blessed to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

         We took a walk before the Choir Broadcast started since we knew it would be a long day of sitting.  It was a beautiful morning.  We soon saw two sister missionaries arrive and try the doors to the church.  On our next round, we saw them sitting outside near the same bench I sat on to ponder yesterday’s talks.  Before long, they approached us and asked if we had an oven and if they could use it to bake a cake.  One of the families they were teaching had a little girl with a birthday and they wanted to make her a birthday cake.  They tried to bake it in the church kitchen, but the oven wouldn’t work.  So we took them to our apartment and they baked their cake here.  At the end of the day, they returned the hot pads they borrowed and with them, two pieces of the cake.

         Glade is preparing his FHE lesson for tomorrow night.  He is going to use the 14 Fundamentals of Following the Prophet and supplement it with the messages from Conference.  Wasn’t it interesting how many of the talks were on this topic and how important it is that we follow our living prophet who will never lead us astray.  Glade has to make all of his preparations in Spanish and wants to make sure he has all of the translation down correctly so he doesn’t stumble.  He always does so well, but that’s probably why—he prepares.

         We are ready for a new week, ready to do a little better in following our exemplar, Jesus Christ, and ready to return to the temple with new enthusiasm, anxious to serve.    

         Good night, everyone—Lots of love.