General Conference

It's that time again - General Conference! For those of you not familiar with the LDS Church, every six months (the first weekend of April and October) we hold General Conference instead of our regular Sunday services. Conference is broadcast worldwide from Salt Lake and we receive instructions from the Prophet and other leaders of the church. I love General Conference and look forward to it each year.

The speakers are not assigned topics, they each pray about it and select a topic but there always appears to be a theme. This year the majority of the speakers spoke on the importance of home and family. At least three or four mentioned that attending church classes should supplement not replace teaching in the home. Several speakers also quoted from the Proclamation to the World. In a world where the family unit is crumbling it is so important to remember that the family is the most important foundation influence in a child's life.

I love when General Conference falls on Easter because we have the opportunity to hear the prophet and apostles share their testimonies of the atonement. So many of the speakers bore powerful testimony of the Lord's love for us and the fact that we will live again because Jesus Christ suffered for our sins, died and the cross, and was resurrected. I know this to be true and I love hearing other people who also know it to be true.

General Conference really makes for a perfect weekend; my testimony is strengthened each time and there is nothing more important that that!