I can tell that I have some of the sickness that Laura is feeling and that everyone else has had to varying degrees. That’s not a fun thought as I am covering for Scott this week. We got a slow start today and I was the only one to go to Sacrament meeting for our ward because we were planning to attend Sacrament meeting in Bill’s ward for Andrew’s blessing. Our ward was having ward conference and it was really cool to have someone standing for each of the sustainings except for the apostles – President Eyring stood only for the First Presidency. The only speakers were Bishop Tueller, President Taylor, and President Eyring. Bishop Tueller talked about tethers between people and how people may draw strength from our tethers to them even when we are not aware of it. He spoke of how vulnerable each of us is when we allow out tethers slacken. President Taylor spoke about gathering – he said that he only slept about an hour the night before he was sustained in Stake Conference. When he woke up he woke thinking about gathering. He searched the scriptures for “Gather AND oft OR often” and found 16 matches (or maybe it was 6 because that’s all I found). He then searched for “Gather AND Zion” resulting in 16 matches. He then searched for “Gather AND Storm” and found 2 matches. Among those verses was D&C 115:6. That was the theme for our ward conference and President Taylor said that the theme of gathering was confirmed to him 5 or 6 times that day as Elder Dixon actually quoted D&C 115:6. President Eyring got up and testified that the meeting today was no ordinary meeting and testified that each of the previous speakers was called of God.
Laura and I had a nice talk about the principles of tethers and pruning in life – cutting out the excesses to focus on our goals and realizing that our connections with people are the most important aspect of all our work on earth.
The girls and I did go to Andrew’s blessing but we came home before the meeting was over because Alyssa got gum stuck all over he arm and her dress. We finally had Mariah’s birthday cake during dinner and put out our autumn decorations. Now for a long night’s sleep.
Here are the scriptures I found from President Taylor’s searches:
- Matt. 23: 37
- Luke 13: 34
- Mosiah 18: 25
- Alma 6: 6
- 3 Ne. 10: 4-6
- D&C 43: 24
- Micah 4: 11
- 3 Ne. 21: 1
- D&C 45: 71
- D&C 84: 2
- D&C 84: 100
- D&C 101: 70
- D&C 101: 74
- D&C 103: 22
- D&C 109: 39
- D&C 109: 59
- D&C 111: 2
- D&C 115: 6
- D&C 119: 5
- D&C 133: 4
- Moses 7: 62
- A of F 1: 10
- Alma 26: 6
- D&C 115: 6 (duplicate)
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