Our church stake conference was last weekend. It was a special one because we had an apostle, Neil L. Anderson, who came to speak. Ricky attended the Saturday evening session and I went Sunday morning. We decided to split up so that we could go and actually hear it and enjoy it without the kids. It worked perfectly for us to switch off. Saturday evening was very informal and Elder Anderson talked for the majority of the meeting.
Sunday morning was much more formal and we only heard from Elder Anderson for a short time. His message was that we should not let pride get in our way of asking for help if we truly need it. His message was more geared toward the financial aspects and the church being able to help in desperate situations and that we would never go without the necessities. It can really be applied to all other areas of our lives too. There are time when we need help and we need to ask for it and we can't expect people to just know. He also touched on how the church helps out worldwide, especially in times of disaster. It was great to hear.
He also had a member of the seventy accompanying him. He also spoke (I don't recall his name) and he shared a great quote that I wrote down. He said, "In order to take the pain out of death, we would have to take the love out of life." I had never thought of it that way before. It made sense. It went on to explain that while death isn't easy to experience for those left behind, it is necessary to feel the pain as a part of healing and understanding love.
One other interesting thing is that they had the city mayor there along with the city council. I hadn't seen that before but it was nice. The mayor spoke for a few minutes about the faith based community in our city. I had never seen the mayor before so it was a nice twist to conference. I'm glad I made the effort to go.
Sunday morning was much more formal and we only heard from Elder Anderson for a short time. His message was that we should not let pride get in our way of asking for help if we truly need it. His message was more geared toward the financial aspects and the church being able to help in desperate situations and that we would never go without the necessities. It can really be applied to all other areas of our lives too. There are time when we need help and we need to ask for it and we can't expect people to just know. He also touched on how the church helps out worldwide, especially in times of disaster. It was great to hear.
He also had a member of the seventy accompanying him. He also spoke (I don't recall his name) and he shared a great quote that I wrote down. He said, "In order to take the pain out of death, we would have to take the love out of life." I had never thought of it that way before. It made sense. It went on to explain that while death isn't easy to experience for those left behind, it is necessary to feel the pain as a part of healing and understanding love.
One other interesting thing is that they had the city mayor there along with the city council. I hadn't seen that before but it was nice. The mayor spoke for a few minutes about the faith based community in our city. I had never seen the mayor before so it was a nice twist to conference. I'm glad I made the effort to go.
Elder Neil L. Anderson
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Thanks for sharing the quote about love life and death. I needed to hear that today. Cool that your city council was there too!
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