Thoughts that touched my heart!

I love the gospel!  I am so grateful to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Mormon/LDS. I feel so blessed with the understanding I have that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me and that has given a Savior, that has atoned for our sins, pains, sufferings and trangressions.  Knowing this brings me such peace.  It is what helps me get through each and everyday.  Knowing this has helped deal with the untimely death of both my parents.  It is what helps me to make it through life when it doesn't feel fair, safe or right.  It is what helps me make it through days, that our blessed, happy and peaceful.  It is my anchor and it is what gives me all my strength.

I was blessed to be able to go to the Saturday Session of Stake conference last week. It sure touched my heart.  I was asked to sing in stake choir that night, or I don't know if I would have gone for sure. My life has been crazy busy (like most everyone, I know)  and frankly, I don't like it this way one bit.  It seemed easier to stay home, but I am grateful I went.

The theme I got out of the meeting, was to just do the best your can.  I had a couple "aha" moments that I wanted to share.  What was shared was things I had heard before, but for some reason it touched my heart and the spirit just bore witness to me of the truth of the words that were spoken.

The talk I loved was based on this quote.
“Tell the people to humble and faithful, and be sure to keep the spirit of the Lord and it will lead them right. Be careful and not turn away the small still voice; it will teach
you^them^ what to do and where to go Tell the brethren to keep their hearts open to conviction, so that when the Holy Ghost comes to them, their hearts will be ready to receive it. They can tell the spirit of the Lord from all other spirits; it will whisper peace and joy to their souls; it will take malice hatred, strife and all evil from their hearts’ and their whole desire will be to do good, bring forth righteousness and build of the kingdom of God. Tell the brethren if they will follow the spirit of the Lord they will go right. Be sure to tell the people to keep the Spirit of the Lord; and if they will, they will find themselves just as they were organized by our Gather in Heaven before they came into the world.”

Elder Golden talked about how we can only do the best we can and if we keep the spirit we will not go astray.  He talked about how the spirit can guide us and that if we listen to is we will always make good choices.  He said that when we obey the Holy Ghost that over time it will change our nature.  When we pray, read our scriptures and do what is right we will have our natures changes.  I have seen many people have their nature changed by the Holy Ghost and I am grateful for their examples.  I feel continually blessed. 


One of my favorite quotes of all times. 
“We once knew well our Elder Brother and our Father in Heaven. We rejoiced at the prospects of earth life that could make it possible for us to have a fullness of joy. We could hardly wait to demonstrate to our Father and our Brother, the Lord, how much we loved them and how we would be obedient to them in spite of the earthly opposition of the evil one. Now we are here. Our memories are veiled. We are showing God and ourselves what we can do. Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us.”
― Ezra Taft Benson