Conference Highlights

If you weren't able to watch Conference or don't know what it is, please head right over to this site and take a few minutes to listen.  I promise you won't be disappointed. The words spoken by our Prophet and his Apostles were beautiful and apply to everyone, even if you aren't of our faith.   http://www.lds.org/  I'm looking forward to receiving the Ensign magazine in the mail where I'll be able to go over the talks individually and carefully and hopefully by doing this I'll be able to make some much needed changes in my life.  Anyway, these were some of my favorites: 
 Parent with righteousness and tenderness, not anger and fear.


 We know we are teaching our children when without rewards or threats they do what is right.

 Be an example – “What we are speaks so loudly that our children may not hear what we say.”

 Help our children establish their own connection to heaven. They need to depend on the Lord, not us.

 Teach with love and patience

 “What a sacred responsibility Heavenly Father places upon us as parents to partner with Him and helping His choice spirits become what He knows they can become. This divine privilege of raising our children is a much greater responsibility than we can do alone without the Lord’s help. He knows exactly what our children need to know, what they need to do and what they need to be to come back into His presence. He gives mothers and fathers specific instruction and guidance through the scriptures, His prophets and the Holy Ghost.”

 Be an example – “What we are speaks so loudly that our children may not hear what we say.”

 “Wise parents prepare their children to get along without them.”

 Some of the most important sacrifices we make are in our family.

 We shouldn’t be “downing a quart of pickle juice every time someone around [us] has a happy moment.”

 “So be kind. And be grateful God is kind. It is a happy way to live.”

 We aren’t in a race against each other, but against sin.