Friday, May 22, 2009

Best Stake Conference ever


Last weekend was our Stake Conference and we had the privilege of hearing from an Apostle of the Lord, Elder M Russell Ballard. The whole weekend was wonderful. It was the first time I have seen an Apostle in person. The spirit was so strong that I was sure you could cut it with a knife.


Saturday evening Adult session was my favorite. All the speakers felt like they were talking just to me. 2 of the speakers talked about their conversions to the church among other things. They both did a great job.


Elder Ballard was the last to speak and he talked about the 10 virgins and keeping our lamps full and ways that we could do that. The usual things came up such as prayer, family home evening, scripture study. He said that he often hears people ask why we talk about the same things all the time and he said something like "As soon as you all get those down pat, we'll move on to deeper doctrine" He talked about rededicating ourselves if some things had started to slip. One thing he mentioned was kneeling each night as a couple and thanking Heavenly Father for one more day together. Tim and I had always had family prayer but didn't really think to kneel each night, just the two of us. We hope to rectify that. I found him to be very sincere and funny. I truly felt like my lamp was filled to overflowing from the whole experience. I did get to shake his hand after the Saturday session. I told him that I would rededicate myself to those things that I have let slip.



Sidenote: I have a 4 day weekend and the weather is beautiful. Hubby has 3 of those days off with me. It's rare that we have more than Sundays off together so I'm really looking forward to some good quality family time.


Sidenote 2: I won a radio content yesterday and got 4 tickets and free ride coupons to the Waterfront Village which is part of the Rose Festival. It's a carnival/fair that is on the waterfront in Portland. We've lived here 15 years and have never gone so we're going to do that tomorrow. The prize package also included a $25 gift cert for KFC and a gift cert for 5 laps at Malibu Raceway.

5 comments:

Lyon Pride said...

I loved Stake Conference too! Congratulations on your prize. Sounds fun and what a gorgeous weekend to go to the Waterfront!

Kimberly Vanderhorst said...

Sounds like such an amazing experience!

Yvonne said...

Saturday night session of Stake Conference is always my favorite.

So glad you enjoyed your Stake Conference. It's always great to see areas where we can improve--love those times.

You are such a great person, tonya.

Rockelle said...

Nice post tonya!
Since you both are on diets and cant have KFC...you can give that one to me. I will happily take it off you hands!
LOL

Nancy Face said...

I'm so happy you had a wonderful and inspiring experience at Stake Conference. I felt that way when we were blessed to have L. Tom Perry at our Stake Conference two or three years ago. :)

How cool that you won such an awesome prize! :)