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So I have been a little MIA lately. Nothing too new and exciting is going on around here. Just the usual grind of everyday life. For those of you who look at this who are not LDS, we just had the chance to hear From our Prophet, Apostles and other leaders of our Church this past weekend in General Conference. I walked away from two days of conference feeling full, spiritual edified/uplifted, more grateful for the gospel and my family. It is so amazing to me what love our Father in Heaven has for each and everyone of us and he knows just what to inspire these men and women to counsel us in. My two favorite talks(even though I liked all of them) were from Elder Bednar on Saturday Morning and President Monson on Sunday morning.

Elder Bednar's talk about families and the way for us to share our love and testimonies more with them and to be consistent with family prayer,scripture study,and home evening was so powerful to me. I feel at times we (and I mean me too)treat our own families and spouses worse than we do friends or even perfect strangers when we should do just the opposite. Elder Bednar told us we need to show greater love for them in word and deeds. Having two small children it is hard sometimes to have family, prayer, scripture study,and home evening while they are jumping around or not be quiet and feeling like they are getting nothing out of it. But I know that if we are consistent with those things, we are counseled to do, our Children will be blessed and will learn.

President Monson's talk was powerful to me as well. His counsel for us to Serve, was just what I needed to hear. It is so easy to get wrapped up in ourselves and our own lives that we forget to stop and take a step back and see if there is any way we can help make someone elses burden lighter. We may just be an answer to someones fervent prayer for help. Whether we help those with less than us or those who are lonely and etc. I know that by serving others we are blessed as well through that service. I hope that I can be better at serving others from now on.

I have just felt a need to bear my testimony of the things I know are true. I know that the gospel is true. I know that the scriptures are true and that only a man inspired by GOd could have translated such a book. I know Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God. I know that Jesus Christ died and atoned for each and everyone of us and that HE LIVES!!! I know that we can return to live with our Heavnely Father and our families again if we strive each day to keep the commandments and if we are sealed to our families forever in the Holy Temple. I know that if every person in the world had the gospel in their lives and lived it there we not be so many calamaties and heart breaks. I know that we have a living Prophet today on the earth who guides and directs us and I am so grateful for the opportunity we had to Listen to conference this weekend to hear his counsel as well as from all the apostles and general authories!