Tonight was the adult session for stake conference. Stake Conference was how Mark and I spent our official first date! … here we are again 20 years later, enjoying our date night together, just as we started.
The conference was amazing. The overall theme was "A Touch of the Master's Hand" with President Day finishing on "Preparing Spiritually"
He shared a story of a hand cart company that burned blankets and jackets just days before a huge snow storm that left them miserable, frostbitten, hypothermia and even dead. We, too, must not give up the small things for worldly things. We need to make sure that we don't invite the filth and dirt of the world into our homes (great video). This reminded me of a lesson I had to teach Jessica a few years ago when one of her best friends changed her values and ended up drinking and making bad choices. I told Jessica to imagine that girl in the middle of a muddy dirty pond. Jessica was allowed to go right up to the edge of the pond … call out to her, reach out to her with other object, but not ever go into the muddy dirty water to save her. We want to make sure that we don't let others influence our focus away from our eternal goals.
Focus on having:
Family Prayer
Personal Prayer
Family Scripture study
Personal Scripture study
Family Home Evening
Temple attendance
and Tithing
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