This week I had a pretty cool genealogy experience. Monday morning I was doing some work on my dad's father's side, and ended up stumbling across a line of our tree that had been missing for AGES. My uncle had hit a dead end working on that branch years ago, and I ended up coming across it totally by accident! When I added it to my tree, something amazing happened: I discovered how far back the line had been worked on. Whoever it was that had been working on this line was INCREDIBLE, because they had worked the tree back to the year 100 A.D. Yes, you read that right. 100 A.D. I'm related to King Louis II from France, Charlemagne, and many more other amazing people!! I could hardly believe my eyes as I was looking over the huge chunk of family that my little discovery had added to our tree. Family history work is AWESOME!!
Tuesday morning Jake and I went to the temple, which was another special experience. On Wednesday, however, the day started out a bit rougher than most: Jake accidentally elbowed me in the eye HARD. I thought I was going to have a black eye, that's how bad it was! Thankfully my eye was just a little swollen for the day, but I definitely teased Jake about it quite a lot.
On Friday Jake got off early from work, and we discovered that we had received our tax return in the mail! It was perfect timing because we've been needing to go to Idaho Falls for a few weeks, but haven't had the money to make the trip worth it. Not only did we have the money now, but we had the time to go, since Jake was off work earlier than usual. We scrambled to get ready and headed out the door. Zoe wasn't too thrilled about being left home alone for several hours, but it was well worth the trip!
General Conference this weekend was AWESOME!
Saturday morning I made homemade cinnamon rolls (check out the Kitchen Adventures tab for the recipe) and settled in on the couch with a notebook and pens, ready to have my questions answered and to learn more about why the gospel is so wonderful. My favorite talk from Saturday was Elder Bednar’s; it was just so cool to hear all that doctrine about baptism and the Holy Ghost being linked to the sacrament. I’d never looked at things in that way, or known all that stuff. So cool!
Jake watched the Priesthood Session that evening and I tuned in a bit, and caught some of Brother Owen’s talk and I’m so glad that I did, because something he said is my all-time new favorite quote about Christ, and probably my new favorite quote from General Conference:
Not only is this an awesome thing to learn about Christ, but I’m planning on applying this into my life as a teacher. If I want to be a great teacher, I need to be a great student, and show that to my students. I need to model for them how I learn, to show them that not only is it possible to learn from the books we read and the writing we do, but that you should be learning throughout your life, even after you're done being a student in school.
Sunday's sessions of conference were amazing as well of course, and I'm really just so grateful that I had the opportunity to hear from our church leaders and really absorb their counsel. I tried a new method of taking notes this time around, and I really love how much it helped me truly listen to what was being said! My favorite talks from Sunday were President Uchtdorf's and Elder Holland's, which is really no surprise because they are always incredible speakers.
I'll be sharing my notes from General Conference in another post, so stay tuned!
Saturday morning I made homemade cinnamon rolls (check out the Kitchen Adventures tab for the recipe) and settled in on the couch with a notebook and pens, ready to have my questions answered and to learn more about why the gospel is so wonderful. My favorite talk from Saturday was Elder Bednar’s; it was just so cool to hear all that doctrine about baptism and the Holy Ghost being linked to the sacrament. I’d never looked at things in that way, or known all that stuff. So cool!
Jake watched the Priesthood Session that evening and I tuned in a bit, and caught some of Brother Owen’s talk and I’m so glad that I did, because something he said is my all-time new favorite quote about Christ, and probably my new favorite quote from General Conference:
"Christ is the greatest leader because He is the greatest follower."
Not only is this an awesome thing to learn about Christ, but I’m planning on applying this into my life as a teacher. If I want to be a great teacher, I need to be a great student, and show that to my students. I need to model for them how I learn, to show them that not only is it possible to learn from the books we read and the writing we do, but that you should be learning throughout your life, even after you're done being a student in school.
Sunday's sessions of conference were amazing as well of course, and I'm really just so grateful that I had the opportunity to hear from our church leaders and really absorb their counsel. I tried a new method of taking notes this time around, and I really love how much it helped me truly listen to what was being said! My favorite talks from Sunday were President Uchtdorf's and Elder Holland's, which is really no surprise because they are always incredible speakers.
I'll be sharing my notes from General Conference in another post, so stay tuned!
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