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.
Forty and Fierce!
3 years ago
That's so great! I love Elder Bednar. We just had Elder Christopherson (however you spell that) come to our stake conference. We were being rearranged. He seems like a really good man but I don't remember anything that he said. Oops!
ReplyDeleteOh I'm jealous. I loved that first fireside he did for us (other than the silly questions some people asked). This makes me miss Texas even more!
ReplyDeleteElder Hales did a fireside for the YSA's in my area on Sunday and also talked about Patriarchal Blessings. I thought about you because that's something that we talked about a bit. I miss you!
That is so neat that he did a question/answer fireside with you guys! I'm jealous too! I've always wanted to be there when one of the apostles or the Prophet answered questions like that.
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