Stake Conference

We had a wonderful Stake Conference this weekend. My favorite was the Adult Session on Saturday night. I wanted to share a few things that were spoken, cause if I share it, i have a better chance of remembering it :)

*Are we puppets?? Do we let the world dress us and tell us how to act?? Or do we make our own choices based on what WE KNOW?

*They talked a lot about Virtue. I love all the synonyms for Virtue; dynamic, power, strength, chastity, cleanliness, purity, sacred, moral excellence, and an attribute of godliness.

*Read. Pray. Serve.... with a GOOD ATTITUDE!!!

*We need to be as concerned (if not more!) about our kids spiritual health and protection, as we are about their physical health and protection.

*Don't work to much, Don't play to much. Find a Balance, and make sure you make time for Family.

*In reference to Modesty- We need to worry less about being "Hot" and more about being Holy.

Our Stake President referenced both of these talks. I love them. They are sooooooo good. I would encourage everyone to take the time to listen/read them.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland - To Young Women
"Be a women of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This Church needs you. The world needs you."
"One would truly need a great and spacious makeup kit to compete with beauty as protrayed in media all around us"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xomYmjPVAF0

D. Todd Christofferson - A Sense of the Sacred
"The importance of having a sense of the sacred is simply this—if one does not appreciate holy things, he will lose them. Absent a feeling of reverence, he will grow increasingly casual in attitude and lax in conduct. He will drift from the moorings that his covenants with God could provide. His feeling of accountability to God will diminish and then be forgotten. Thereafter, he will care only about his own comfort and satisfying his uncontrolled appetites. Finally, he will come to despise sacred things, even God, and then he will despise himself.
On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion. More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy things. Just the opposite of cynicism and despair, his end is eternal life. "
http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=8555