Life is busy and I have been a slowpoke about getting my new gospel study schedule planned out for the next six months (well, five months now) between General Conferences. It’s a bit of a time-consuming project, after all, to review all the General Conference talks from October and all the Come, Follow Me scripture study lessons slated for the next six months in order to try to pair them up. But I have finished at last! In the meantime,…
Yesterday would have been my grandma’s 100th birthday. If you could have asked her, she never would have suggested that she was particularly extraordinary, which is a shame. About a gazillion people showed up at her funeral, demonstrating otherwise. They were there because of the way she loved them. My grandma was always loving, serving, taking interest in, and taking time for a conversation with people. Family. Friends. Neighbors. Store clerks. Restaurant staff. The masked intruder who broke…
General Conference weekends (when we hear messages of faith from leaders in our church centered on Jesus Christ) are usually two of my favorite weekends in the year. I typically come away from them uplifted and with a desire to revisit and study the messages that were given. However, implementing my good intentions is sometimes easier said than done. Over the last few years, I have experimented with different ways to incorporate studying the most recent Conference talks into my…