Awesome Day!

This morning was an uplifting even. My mom and sister in law Marci and I went to a Women Conference in Riverside where two amazing women spoke. Wendy Watson Nelson and Sheri Dew. Sheri Dew is my favorite speaker of all time, so I was so excited. Each of the women gave an amazing talk. Sister Nelson is the wife of Russel M. Nelson. She spoke on the importance of becoming better and increasing our spirituality because "whatever spiritual strength was once sufficient will not be enough" as times get more and more wicked. She encouraged us to support the Lords agenda...to support it in the way we dress, act, speak...etc. She spoke on personal revelation and our need to ask the Lord questions we want answered and then to go to the scriptures to allow him to answer them for us. Then she encouraged us to have specific things that we choose to never do again..."NOT EVEN ONCE". We can't slip and fall...we have to be strong and only do things that we would do if the Holy Ghost were right next to us.

Sheri Dew is full of insight! She began with reminding us that 'a lot of us make the mistake of forgetting that this life is not our true home. We aren't going to stay here. ' So often we make such a big deal about things that happen in this life forgetting the bigger picture. She spoke of Satan's desire to destroy us that his 'disruptive strategy'. If he can successfully 1) Confuse our identity 2) keep us from understanding the atonement and 3) prevent us from receiving personal revelation he can destroy us! So, of course if we are always working on 1) remembering who we are, which are the 'noble and great ones'. 2) Understand the atonement and allow it to work in our lives and 3) seek personal revelation we will succeed!! A particular insight into personal revelation that I liked was that she said we need to ask the Lord to teach us how to realize when we are receiving personal revelation. Being able to feel the spirit and receive personal revelation are two different things. I'd never thought of that. The Lord speaks a specific language and we have to 'learn that language' if you will. As we read the scriptures we'll come to understand our 'Fathers' language more and more.

I left the meeting with a greater desire to get closer to Heavenly Father through Personal Revelation. I think too often I just simply pray for the basic things and forget to really seek Personal Revelation or even know how to achieve that. I still don't, but I'm going to try to start learning through pondering, prayer and scripture study. I'm thankful for these women and their examples of strong faithful women of our Father in Heaven.