How Blessed Are We
A week ago I taught the lesson in Relief Society. I had read and listened to the talk several times in the course of a month and it just wasn’t resonating with me. As I prayed about how I should go about teaching the lesson I felt inspired to focus on the upcoming conference and how to prepare to hear whatever message we needed to hear for ourselves. I passed out a paper with thoughts I had collected from both the church website and Deseret News. It starts out with how blessed we are to get to hear the words of God through our prophets and apostles and other Church leaders. Let me emphasize other Church leaders as we heard from many that serve in other capacities. And what a great blessing it was to hear from each of them. General conference is a gift that each of us can benefit. Taking notes helps one to focus – at least it does me. I know that there were some who were disappointed not seeing Pres. Nelson for three of the sessions. ...