March 2015, Week 4

*Today at church, we had some great talks in Sacrament Meeting.  The first was given by the 14-year old son of a lady who (along with her two sons) recently moved into our ward after recently joining the church.  It sounded as if he had been a member all his life.  I don't remember most of his words, but I remember his confidence and how the Spirit touched him.  I'm so grateful that my children are growing up with this same opportunity to publicly share their testimonies through giving talks.  I'm so grateful that I was able to, as well.  It is not something that my natural self would tell me is a good thing for me to do, but every time I do, I realize that my natural self is wrong...again.

*The second and third talks were given by friends of ours.  They spoke on finding answers to prayers, and on President Uchtdorf's talk from General Conference, "Lord, is it I?"  I enjoyed them.  I liked the stories from the talk--the one dandelion in the neighbor's otherwise perfect lawn that bothered the man so much, when he ignored the hundreds of them in his own yard--the reminder to remove the beam from yourself before looking for motes in others.  He also asked if we are missing out on blessings because we rationalize, or we are lazy, or we simply choose disobedience.  Maybe he didn't talk exactly about these things, but these are what I'm thinking about after the talk, so that's what's important for me, anyway.  I should go read it.

It was awesome!