October 6, 2015

"Decide now to make general conference a priority in your life. Decide to listen carefully and follow the teachings that are given."

- Paul V. Johnson

It has been a week filled with revelation! I have been able to see a lot of what our beloved Heavenly Father wants for us, His children, and all that He has to offer us. I felt a lot of the love that He has for me personally and also of the love that He has for everyone. 

This weekend, we had the wondrous opportunity to watch General Conference which is where the prophet and apostles of these days speak to us the words of God. They, the servants of God, tell us all that He has in store for us. I was grateful to hear all about the atonement and how the commandments are a gift to us from God. A talk that I really enjoyed was one by Elder Kim B. Clark entitled "Eyes to See and Ears to Hear." He spoke about how the commandments of God are really there to help save us from dangers that we can’t even see. It was a truly amazing talk.

I was truly overjoyed to hear about the miracles that have happened this week with friends, other acquaintances in my life, and especially in my family where the greater part of my family was coming home. In my mother's words, "On our way home from Utah, last night, about 2 miles away from our house, there was a wreck right in front of us. Thank goodness for dad’s awesome driving skills. We're in the HOV Lane, and a car three lanes over in the right lane, spun and spun and came into our lane three lanes of cross traffic. Dad ended up stopping approximately three feet on from the car. A couple other cars got into a serious crash because of this woman. We felt very, very blessed and very protected. We were very, very grateful that dad was alert and that nothing happened. We are so grateful for tender mercies!" How grateful I am for the love of our Heavenly Father who truly looks after each and every one of us! 

I love you all. I love you all so much that I invite you all to read and to study to words of the prophets until you start to have them memorized. They truly help us all to become a little bit better than we once were. I love you all, and I'll keep saying it over and over until you all understand and feel my love. If you do not know where to go to find this wonderful source to the word of God, you can go to lds.org.

Elder Gale