Monday Musings

 Yesterday our Relief Society discussion was based on the General Conference talk from October 2020 by Elder David Bednar entitled "We Will Prove Them Herewith".  Our discussion leader did a great job of making that talk accessible and useful to us all.  We met via Zoom and had a few technical glitches at the beginning and started late but her preparedness and skill with the sisters was wonderful and truly made up for the problems.

She started by quoting "prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God."

We discussed most of those points.  One thing I liked was the topic of prayer.  People brought up making prayer lists, which I liked very much.  I need to do that. I sometimes forget people I intend to pray for.

We talked about fasting.  We fast the first Sunday of every month in our Church and donate the funds we would have used to buy food for our family to a fast offering which is used to assist needy people in our local area.  It is a wonderful thing.  Not everyone can fast so we talked about how those people could also participate in the fast.  One sister said she fasts from social media, or TV, or sugar or something else that is a sacrifice for her.  That was such a good point.  When I cannot fast for whatever reason, I choose not to eat anything that gives me pleasure.

The other things we addressed were wonderful but I won't go on.  You get the point.

We also spoke briefly of temporal preparedness and spiritual preparedness and were given the assignment to assess where we are right now.  Are we just right or do we need improvement.  We were instructed to not skip over the "just right" aspects of our preparedness and directly to "needs improvement".  I hope to spend time before our next meeting doing just this assessment.

By clicking on the link above everyone can listen to this Conference address and be enriched. I hope you will do it then think of how the quotes can bless your own lives.