God told Adam to multiply and replenish the earth.
He commanded Noah to build a boat.
He promised Abraham that he would be the father of many nations.
And he gave Moses the Ten Commandments.
The scriptures are full of accounts of God communicating with his children through prophets.
Today, many people wonder, if God spoke to man then, then why doesn't he speak to us now?
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints know that God still speaks to his children on earth.
He speaks to us personally through scripture and to our hearts through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. He also sends us messages for our day through the words of his living prophets.
Those prophets and other church leaders will speak to the world this Saturday and Sunday
in General Conference. If you are curious about what they will share, you can access their messages virtually where ever you are through LDS.org and on BYU-TV.
Here are a few things that I gleaned from the prophets words during our last General Conference just six months ago:
I learned the purpose of our trials and why we experience pain.
I learned to face the future with faith.
If not, here is a giveaway to help get you on your way to fulfilling that admonishment!
KMC Photography has kindly offered up a personalized 8x10 print of your choice from their shop to the winner of the giveaway. (Check out their blog here.)
To enter, please link-up any General Conference-related post above. It can be a GC tradition, activity, craft, recipe, testimony, or write a post about how your family celebrates General Conference....I only ask that your post contains a link to the upcoming general conference page or some other relevant part of LDS.org. Link to this post too, if you'd like to help spread the word about this link-up. Gracias.
Time to get sharing! I will let Random.org choose a winner on Thursday! I'll feature your best Gen Conf posts/ideas on Thursday too! Oh, and just a heads-up...I'll be doing another General Conference Link-up AND giveaway the Monday after Conference.
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Jocelyn - My mistake. I thought this was blog posts about the RS meeting. Please feel free to remove my entry and this comment. ~Kathryn
ReplyDeleteI love General Conference! I use to be the Primary President and always stressed General Conference. I was asked to come back to Primary to teach one more time. I put up one of those big pop-up tents in the Primary room and had all the children sit on the floor while we learned about King Benjamin and sang the apostle song. Thanks for your inspiring blog!
ReplyDeleteNo worries,Kathryn...I count Gen RS Bcast as part of Conference anyway! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to see what everyone links up! I linked to a current post... would you mind if I linked some of my past General Conference ideas?
ReplyDeletegood ideas as always. we'll be traveling to Santa Fe to visit my oldest son Frank but will catch up with lds.org on our return. what a blessing!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea Jocelyn! I added two but now see that the second one I added was already up (must have been by you) so please delete the "Call for GC Videos." I'll add my GC Conference Wall instead. :)
ReplyDeleteVery cool idea for a link up.
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I can't wait for general conference. Hooray!
ReplyDeleteWow, I love following your blog; you always have something fun going on. I look so forward to this weekend. It is so awesome that we can hear and see our living prophet for today and the twelve apostles along with other general authorities. We live in such a blessed era.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the moments of this weekend!
What a great idea for a link party! I blog about our date nights and so I don't have a GC post up yet. You can check out our other dates at www.fridaynightdatenight.blogspot.com in the mean time. We are very excited for conference and what the Lord wants us to hear.
ReplyDeleteI'm a little late to the party, but thought I'd link up anyway. ;) Looking forward to Conference weekend!
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