I must preface...that remember these are from "MY" notes...I pray...I am doing justice to each talk/speaker...Being there...you would have gotten the "spirit" of it...and hopefully...going down stream...to my notes...will not dilute it too much (smile)2 Hour - Ward Conference
ADULT SESSION - President Vern Stanfill gave the lesson
President began his lesson by showing a picture of TWO PATHS...He asked what this meant...All comments were correct and lead up to his topic on CHOICES...
He put up this poem by ROBERT FROST:
"The Road Not Taken"
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth...
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two road diverged in a wood and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth...
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two road diverged in a wood and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
CHOICES IN LIFE:
Raising a family can be scary---FAITH in CHRIST will give us the CONFIDENCE to do it!
The following were addressed in regards on how to BUILD our FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS:
- Relationship with God and His son
- Relationship with our spouse and children
- Relationship with each other
Raising a family can be scary---FAITH in CHRIST will give us the CONFIDENCE to do it!
The following were addressed in regards on how to BUILD our FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS:
- Faith
- Prayer
- Repentance
- Forgiveness
- Respect
- Loe
- Compassion
- Work
- Activities
- D&C 90:24 "Search diligently, PRAY ALWAYS, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another."
- He quoted President Henry B. Eyring - that parents need to TEACH their children to pray...being the EXAMPLE of those that PRAY each day...
- Repentance - "The Healing Power of Repentance"...
- Forgiveness - "Today is the DAY to FORGIVE"
- Quoted D&C 64:10 "I, the Lord, will FORGIVE whom I will forgive, but of YOU it is REQUIRED to FORGIVE ALL MEN."
- Examples were offered...
- Talked about how PAUL gave the example how husbands were to treat their wives...like Christ loved the church...
- We must ALL MODEL our RELATIONSHIPS as CHRIST TREATS US...
- Respect: "Could anyone be more deserving of respect than a literal child of God?"
- LOVE ONE ANOTHER - John 13:34 "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." (I would like to add the 35 verse "By this shall ALL MEN KNOW that ye are MY DISCIPLES, if YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER."
- LIVING together IN LOVE---on this single phrase hangs the SUCCESS of EVERY MARRIAGE and FAMILY...
- Compassion at Home: When life seems tough - HOME can be the place where we find LOVE/COMPASSION and WARMTH...where "someone" UNDERSTANDS and CARES how we FEEL...
- Work: there is no SUBSTITUTE for WORK...President Stanfill quoted Elder Neal A. Maxwell (I did NOT right down the quote but it had to do with work being spiritual, so I found a couple of Elder Maxwell's quotes on the subject)..."We ignore the fact that work is a spiritual necessity at the peril of our souls." (Choose, page 54.)
- Another quote from Elder Maxwell: "The principle of work is also fundamental to spiritual ecology. We shall come to know that work is a spiritual necessity, even if the time comes when it is not an economic necessity." (Power, page 2)
- LOVED this quote from Elder Maxwell: "If we ponder just what it is that will rise with us in the resurrection, it seems clear that our intelligence will rise with us, meaning not simply our IQ, but also our capacity to receive and apply truth. Our talents, attributes, and skills will rise with us; certainly also our capacity to learn, our degree of self-discipline, and our capacity to WORK. Our precise form of work here may have no counterpart there, but the CAPACITY TO WORK will NEVER be OBSOLETE." (Prove, page 12)
- President Stanfill stated that "God himself calls His plan for His children "MY WORK and MY GLORY..." (Moses 1:39)
- ACTIVITIES: Families who play together...we STAY TOGETHER...so that when the times come that we talk about our "remember whens" it will bring lots of LOVE and LAUGHTER in the YEARS to come!
- Family vacations, birthdays, holidays, celebrations and other activities...BUILD STRONG BONDS...
- Now the question to ask yourself is......"What choices are you making DAILY to IMPROVE your RELATIONSHIP with your SPOUSE and CHILDREN." (and for those who are single with out spouse or children...you could ask yourself, still, the same question..."What choices are you making DAILY to IMPROVE your RELATIONSHIP with your PARENTS/and or SIBLINGS or any other member of your family...)
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