Ward Conference

Ward council before ward conference today was really good. Each of the stake auxiliary representatives presented. We learned a lot about how to do our callings better, at least I did. When I walk out of a meeting with a personal to-do list that’s a good meeting.

Joy Jones, the general primary president, was visiting our ward on vacation. The bishop invited her to say a few words and the Bishop and Stake President both spoke. They all did a good job. Sunday School was good. It was an enriching, spirit filled 3 hours.

Main take aways:  the Stake Primary President spoke in ward council.  She said the most important thing is to teach our children how to seek answers by the spirit on their own.  She is a cute young mom, maybe in her early 30's.  She told us about her son, Tate, who is 7.  She said they were teaching a gospel principle in their home and he just wasn't getting it, he kept questioning and confronting her about it.  For two weeks they taught him.  They had object lessons, they read scriptures, they discussed. Finally in exasperation one night she said "Tate, I'm your mother. Do you think I would lie to you?" He said no, but you might be wrong.  Finally the spirit whispered to her that he needed to learn for himself.  So she had her whole family kneel down.  She told him that he needed to ask God if this was true.  The Holy Ghost can not and does not lie to us so if he witnessed to Tate that the principle was true then it was.  The whole family prayed individually at that time and when they were done Tate popped up and said, "well, you were right" and ran off to play.  We can teach and show and read all we want but until our children learn to hear the voice of the Spirit and know for themselves it won't stick, it won't penetrate their hearts.  She said this experience changed that way she taught her children forever.

Joe Thompson, our stake high counselor/YM president taught about resilience, or rather the lack there of and how critical that is for our youth to have.

Bro Jones made a comment in Sunday School.  He said the whole point of "come follow me" is to convert us to Christ, not to "the church", not to programs, but to the Savior Jesus Christ.
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When we got home we got ready for the Junker’s to come over for dinner. We all enjoyed the evening. Dinner was good, we played games. Jackson and Ethan played with us then went off to play video games. It’s a nice way to spend an evening: dinner with friends, games, visiting.