After Conference Thoughts

This weekend was the annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and I just wanted to share some insights I received.

First of all, I had the fortunate opportunity to actually travel down to Salt Lake City and attend the Saturday Morning session in person. Despite being seated in the balcony, it was simply amazing to be present in the same room as Apostles and the Prophet. The Spirit felt was truly incredible.

They always recommend going into Conference with a question or a concern, for what better time to receive an answer than while listening to prophets, seers, and revelators?

My question was less of a question and more seeking a confirmation. You see, I've been pondering about attending classes in the summer, but that was something I had never before considered and therefore was a bit daunting. It wasn't until this last week when I met with my academic advisor that the idea popped up. She recommended attending, seeing as I could take some prerequisite classes that would help me get into others in the Fall. The idea sounded great and as the week pressed on--Conference drawing ever closer--it simply felt "right". But I wanted to make sure. So I went into Conference with the hope I would receive a confirmation that I am indeed supposed to be attending classes this summer.

And would you know, the Lord did answer.

It was confirmed to me that I needed to make school a priority (for pressing reasons unknown to me at this time) and that includes taking classes during the summer.

So, I just want to testify that the Lord does hear our prayers and He will answer them. I would encourage you to go into the next Conference (in October) with a question, because it will be answered.

Another insight I noticed was how often the theme of family came up; especially how important raising children is. Making a marriage work (or in my case, simply getting married) and raising children is a HUGE responsibility, one that should not be taken lightly--even though the world is leaning that direction. These are the BIGGEST decisions we will ever make in this life, and they affect us throughout eternity! Again, these things should NEVER be taken lightly.

And finally, my last point.

At Conference there always seems to be mention of building our foundation upon Christ.

I want to elaborate just a bit more.

You see, I'm currently in an Interior Design class this semester and we just happen to finish a unit talking about the structure of a building. I have learned something key to building a structure:

The foundation is not the first thing poured into the ground. It is the footing that is poured at a horizontal level which gives the foundation its strength.

Therefore, as I listened to talks speaking of building upon Christ, I realized that...

The Footing = Jesus Christ
The Foundation = Our Faith
The Scaffolding = The Gospel

So, according to that, we must first have the footing laid upon which we build our foundation. The scaffolding is what's placed on the foundation which contains (and protects) the home (our life).

I simply love that!

These were just a few thoughts I had during Conference. I hope you had the opportunity to see or listen to some of the wonderful messages that were shared. If you did not, you can click here and read the summaries. (The full talks will not be available until later this week.)

Now, to apply those things which I have learned. I suppose this is why General Conference is six months apart; it takes that long to get into the habit of applying what we learned from the last session! =)