Post-Conference Thoughts

The weekends always feel pretty short, but that's especially true when it's General Conference weekend. We essentially spend the whole weekend listening to the prophet and apostles and other church leaders, leaving very little time for anything else, and we still aren't able to absorb all of the lessons those leaders tried to share with us. With any luck, we each had one or two things that really stuck out to us, that stuck with us all the way home and stayed with us, even through the semi-annual ice cream parties we always have. Hopefully, those messages stuck out to us for a reason, and maybe those are the messages that we really needed to here, so the Spirit brought those thoughts to our hearts and kept them in our remembrance so we can remember to act on them later. Of course, it could be that our brains latched onto those thoughts for no real reason at all, but I would like to think that, after such a spiritual meeting, the Spirit would help us know what we most needed to learn from it and would help make sure that those are the messages we remember, even when the others fade. With any luck, these post-Conference thoughts can help guide and direct us over the coming months. Still, since I'm sure we've missed and will forget many of the valuable lessons from Conference, it would still be wise to review the talks. But in the meantime, it's a good idea to act on the Conference lessons that we actually remember. It's entirely possible that they stood out to us and stuck with us for a reason.