General Conference...

I feel so lucky and so blessed...conference was wonderful and it always is but i just love that i can be reminded of the things most important and how i can improve. i love that everybody in my family is to the point where conference is really important to them and means a lot to them. like really we all get excited and take notes ...something that i love that my parents do and its something i want to do with my kids is after conference we all sit together and share things we loved about conference. its kind of funny cause we all get excited and go on and on and don't want to stop sharing..like we want to talk about all the talks that we liked so we don't even give everyone a fair chance. something that i loved that we brought up tonight as a family was the talk by Elaine s. Dalton and how she spoke to fathers raising daughters and how important it is for a man to love his wife and show his daughter how special she is to him. this made me reflect on my dad and how lucky i am to have a dad who really loves my mom and shows it always. we knew to always talk to our mom with respect and if we didn't we would hear it from dad. they have always made it a priority to take time to spend with each other and go on dates. I started thinking about how important that one thing is. Like i look at people once they have kids sometimes they put their kids first and its important to take care of Ur kids and nurture them and raise them but i just started thinking like about how its important to always make Ur spouse feel loved and important and help them know their #1 to you. this was good for me to reflect on before I'm married so i really can think about whats important to me and what i want. as we told my told how grateful we were for his example he got tearing eyed and it was just a sweet experience. he told us that we should want nothing less then a man who loves us and that the reason why their marriage was the way it was, was because they always put god first and because of the gospel. I cant wait to be able to have my own husband one day who will take time to love me, and be a good example to my future children. i could go on and on about conference just because i loved it so very much. i would have to say my favorite session was sat afternoon and my favorite talk would have to be Neil L. Anderson's..he spoke about families and how their ordained of god and having children. this was special to me probably cause i really cant wait for kids and its something i have always wanted. As i listened to this talk i reflected on what a sacred calling it is to be a mother and how important it is to have children in the lords time instead of Ur timing. he talked about how the world suggests to delay having children and how the worlds ranks it below college, the gym, a job. but just how important it really is, its a calling not a hobby. I loved that. I am a person that stresses and sometimes i think i couldn't have kids if my husband didn't have a good job or if we were not set. but this talk really made me realize its all about putting our trust in god and how much happier we will be if we do things his way instead of our way. we will be so much better off and so much more happy. I really cant wait to be a mother when heavenly father reveals to me its the right time. =)...i guess it would be a good thing to be married first too..ha ha...1 thing at a time, but i think its good to think about..ha ha...like i said i could go on and on but i think ill leave it at that and just say how grateful i am to have heard what i did. I'm grateful for conference and the strength it gives me to face the world and try a little harder to be a little better each and everyday, cause if were not progressing were digressing.