Elder Bedmar

so on Saturday Elder Bednar was in town doing some training with all the church leaders in the area and decided to do a fireside for the young single adults. Since I have lived in Austin this has been my second fireside with Elder Bednar and third apostle that i have heard live in a chapel ( they must like Texas or something) anyway so on Saturday morning a group of us decided to go down early and go do a session at the temple... I was so happy to do this because I have not done a session since October, it was long over due. After the temple a group of us when to get some sandwiches. When we got to the chapel we expected it to be really crowded but there was only about 20 people there so we got really great seats. The fireside was actually really cool because he didn't give an actual talk he had two microphones which were passed around and we got to ask any question we wanted and he based his talk on the answers to the questions. Here is some of what was talked about.

someone asked about a patriarchal blessing and how to understand them better this is what he said.

there are successive layers to your blessing and you need to read layer by layer, look through the layers and be patient. not all blessings or parts of blessings pertain to mortality. when you are reading your blessing read it with a lens of eternity and layers of mortality.

the next question was a long the lines of looking for a spouse and to know what to look for... he gave this council

increase in the characters of Christ. we need to have faith when we are looking for someone and then dating them. faith is a Principal of action and power, line upon line precept upon precept, meaning you cant pray for the power of faith before you do an action... you cant pray that a relationship will work out unless you do something.you don't find the right one, you find the one of whom you can become better with. don't let fear of fear determine your destiny.

There was a lot more said in the fireside but i did not right it all down.

I am so grateful that i am able to have all these great experiences that can help build my testimony and this just reassures me that this is where i am supposed to be right now.

7 road blocks that keep your from the spirit

So this last weekend was full of spiritual learning. I have not been to the temple in a long time so I made plans to go to the temple last Saturday. We made an appointment for the 11 o'clock session. The temple is about 90 min away so we left at 9:00 to be there with plenty of time to spare. its interesting that every time i try to go to the temple Satan always tries to get in the way and prevent me from going... this time was no exception. We were 2 exits away and still had plenty of time, when all the sudden there was an accident and lots of traffic. To make a long story short we missed our session by 2 minutes!!!! I was really bugged and just wanted to go home, luckily my friend Tamara said no we can still go and do sealings and inititorys. I am so glad we did. it was a neat experience and Satan didn't stop us. :)

The next day at church the theme in sacrament was about hope... and of course we are in a singles ward so no surprise one of the talks had to do with marriage and to have hope that we will be married all i could do was laugh even though the speaker gave some good advice. we had a combined priesthood and relief society where the Bishop gave a great lesson where he shared

The 7 roadblocks that keep you from the spirit. I want to share them with all of you. They are

• prayer without intent
• fasting without a purpose
• taking the sacrament without true repentance
• scripture study without scripture searching
• counting assets without counting blessings
• temple attendance without preparation
• temple sealing without a celestial marriage

I thought that all of thees points were really good and there are definitely a few of these that I need to work on.

hope all is going well for you guys