Genralna Konferencia

originally i thought that we would watch conference in this branch this next weekend. i figured that it would be a good idea to let as many people as possible come and avoid the possibility of low attendance because of the easter holiday. due to a few previously unseen road blocks, however, we had to change our plan a little bit, so we watched the first half of conference on sunday and we will watch the second half this saturday. i'm glad we ended up watching it this week. i really enjoyed a lot of the talks. every time when conference comes around i am just marveled at how inspired all of these people are. sometimes when i'm watching some of these talks it seems as though the speaker wrote that talk with me specifically in mind. i really enjoyed president uchtdorf's talk. i also really enjoyed the talk that elder baxter of the seventy gave. i also really enjoyed elder oaks' talk abot sacrifice. sacrifice is something that i have learned a lot about on my mission. it truly is an eternal law--a law that we all must apply. we must all sacrifice something of lower quality (that something can even be something good) for something of deeper importance. we must sacrifice our time in order to have successful family relationships, and to go to church to renew our covenants every week. we must sacrifice our money so that we can declare ourselves as full tithe payers and help the Lord build His kingdom further. whatever the case, whenever we sacrifice righteously in order to keep a commandment, Heavenly Father blesses us. it is all a key part of our common goal to follow our Savior--the man who became the greatest sacrifice the world will ever know--the man whose sacrifice we commemorate with this weekends celebration. i pray that i will be willing and able to sacrifice enough, and consecrate myself approriately so that i can be worthy of His blessing as i try to bless these people.