Week 18

4 October 2010

I thought you would like some more pictures of the Temple at night. We went here for General Conference. I am standing at the Stake Center...Hopefully our temple looks like this one! haha

I love you!

Elder Blackburn





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Hello!

Ok let's get this out of the way, TEMPLE OAHLDSKFJDA:LKJF:ALDKFJ:DLKFA:DALK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

ok cool. Now I was able to watch everything but the Sunday afternoon session because it is played from 9-11pm here and apparently servants of the Lord have to be inside even when the Prophet is speaking at that time...LAME.

So with that said, I enjoyed President Monson's talk on choices. President Uchtdorf's talk on Simplifying your life and Elder Kearon's talk about 'Flip Flops are Not Shoes'.

President Monson:
We need to be grateful for our Right of Choice. We need to be Concious of our Responsibility of Choice. And we need to Accept the Result of Our Choice.

President Uchtdorf:
Stop doing so much or your work is going to be sloppy and you won't gain anything out of it anyways. Slow down in life so you can enjoy it even if it is only on the weekends where you slow down. STOP DOING SO MUCH. Spend time together. Love in the family is spelled T-I-M-E.

Elder Kearon:
Flip Flops are not shoes. I loved the whole talk. It was really well done and if anything we need to remember to have sufficient protection on throughout our day even in the mornings. Satan is always there.

And if anyone else did not catch the over arching theme of our relationship with our Heavenly Father and the fact that we lived with him before this life as spirits. Well now you understand. God is our Father and has given us agency since the beginning. Do not let pride corrupt that agency. Pride fell one of the greatest of all, even the son of the morning, Lucifer. Pride destroys so we need to destroy pride.

I love you,

Elder Blackburn