Day 40-Stake Conference-5/7/06
Day 39-Uhh...Busy day. Tomorrow is Sunday! Busy day but not much to report.
Day 40-Today was Stake Conference. We got our investigator, W. to come with us. He said he enjoyed it and wants his son T. to come sometime. Stake Conference here was different from OK. In fact, it was different from how it normally is here. It was a televised broadcast from Salt Lake City. Speakers included M. Russell Ballard and Thomas S. Monson. I was glad that Washington was able to come. The speakers all gave great talks.
We heard a talk by Bishop E. that I really liked. He talked about death and hardships. This is a subject that I understand but have a hard time teaching it to people that might be facing trials.
He told us of a time he was asked to meet with a couple in the stake whose 5 year old daughter had recently drowned in a pool accident. The little girl went to visit her grandma. While the parents were there, she wandered outside and fell in the pool. The mother blamed herself for letting her child wander off. She and her husband had waited nine years for a child. Then the Lord had blessed them with this little girl. Their child was the reason that she and her husband became active in the church again.
The father was mad at God. He could not understand why the Lord didn't do something to save his little girl. Why didn't the Lord prompt him to check on her to make sure she was okay? Why did this have to happen?
The reason is, God could have saved this little girl. He could save us all from pain while on this earth, but that was not the plan. The book of Job talks about all of the trials that Job went through. How the devil gave him these boils and sores and all manner of afflictions to get Job to curse the Lord. To make him resent the Lord. Job does not, however. He is mocked and cursed by everyone and asked why he does not denounce the Lord that has forsaken him. Job did not enjoy his tribulations while on the earth, but he understood the plan. He was blessed later in his life.
The plan (this is the part of Bishop E.'s talk that I liked the most) was set up by our Heavenly Father who told us that we would come down to earth and suffer pain, trials, hardships, afflictions, and even death. By ourselves it was impossible for us to return to live with our Heavenly Father and receive perfected bodies. Our Heavenly Father then talked about Jesus Christ who would come down and loose the bands of physical and spiritual death. (this is the line I really like)"The one who came down and made it all right." Knowing that no matter what happens to us in this life, no matter what trials and hardships we have, there is One who can make it all right in the end.
D&C 121:7-8 "My son, Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; and then if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes."
There was a lot more to his talk and many other good talks at conference. If I have time to expound more on them, I will. It's hard to find the time to write a whole talk in here.
Day 40-Today was Stake Conference. We got our investigator, W. to come with us. He said he enjoyed it and wants his son T. to come sometime. Stake Conference here was different from OK. In fact, it was different from how it normally is here. It was a televised broadcast from Salt Lake City. Speakers included M. Russell Ballard and Thomas S. Monson. I was glad that Washington was able to come. The speakers all gave great talks.
We heard a talk by Bishop E. that I really liked. He talked about death and hardships. This is a subject that I understand but have a hard time teaching it to people that might be facing trials.
He told us of a time he was asked to meet with a couple in the stake whose 5 year old daughter had recently drowned in a pool accident. The little girl went to visit her grandma. While the parents were there, she wandered outside and fell in the pool. The mother blamed herself for letting her child wander off. She and her husband had waited nine years for a child. Then the Lord had blessed them with this little girl. Their child was the reason that she and her husband became active in the church again.
The father was mad at God. He could not understand why the Lord didn't do something to save his little girl. Why didn't the Lord prompt him to check on her to make sure she was okay? Why did this have to happen?
The reason is, God could have saved this little girl. He could save us all from pain while on this earth, but that was not the plan. The book of Job talks about all of the trials that Job went through. How the devil gave him these boils and sores and all manner of afflictions to get Job to curse the Lord. To make him resent the Lord. Job does not, however. He is mocked and cursed by everyone and asked why he does not denounce the Lord that has forsaken him. Job did not enjoy his tribulations while on the earth, but he understood the plan. He was blessed later in his life.
The plan (this is the part of Bishop E.'s talk that I liked the most) was set up by our Heavenly Father who told us that we would come down to earth and suffer pain, trials, hardships, afflictions, and even death. By ourselves it was impossible for us to return to live with our Heavenly Father and receive perfected bodies. Our Heavenly Father then talked about Jesus Christ who would come down and loose the bands of physical and spiritual death. (this is the line I really like)"The one who came down and made it all right." Knowing that no matter what happens to us in this life, no matter what trials and hardships we have, there is One who can make it all right in the end.
D&C 121:7-8 "My son, Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; and then if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes."
There was a lot more to his talk and many other good talks at conference. If I have time to expound more on them, I will. It's hard to find the time to write a whole talk in here.
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