General Conference April 2025

I love general conference weekend. It was cold and rainy, rainy, rainy. A blessing because this meant we did not have to compete with soccer games or the Bentonville Half marathon because everything was postponed due to flooding and severe weather threats. It was still Aaron‘s birthday weekend and there were many hours devoted to prom and march madness finals, But the weather definitely helped thin out the calendar and everything felt a little extra cozy. 

“Where’s Jimmie” Will forever and always be the favorite general conference game. 

The Spears potluck between sessions is another tradition that everyone looks forward to. This year, we learned that a missionary serving in our ward shares a birthday with Aaron. I was talking about ministering with the spirit to my friend, and we spotted Quincy waving her arms in a very animated way across the room in a conversation with this missionary. Gina asked, “what in the world is she doing?” It was then that we realized they were using sign language. Quincy had remembered that this elder had told her he studied American Sign Language before leaving on his mission. To make him feel special on his birthday, she asked him to teach her how to sign The happy birthday song. It wasn’t a big deal, but I know it meant a lot to this young kid who was far from home on his birthday.  I recognized Quincy‘s gift in ministering with the Spirit in action here. 

The only photo I took from this potluck are these three cute little friends from my ward. 

I had a lot of personal revelation while watching conference but here are some more general notes I wrote down.  

Bednar- Pray to receive and act and the Lord will increase our capacity 

Steven Shumway - when we say yes to Christ we say yes to the greatest being 

1-participate to progress and fulfill our measure progress is good 

Church callings 

2-serving elevates our homes as we keep covenants 

Intentionally seek those without callings and engage them in the work 

Tamara Runia

We all have different degrees of difficulty in the work we are called to do. Only our Savior is the only one who knows and can understand our efforts 

Imagine Jesus Christ nearby and imagine what the Savior would say about you in a prayer to the father? He loves you and knows you 

Clausse contribute to Gods compensating efforts (full circle service)

Loving service in the temple reminds us that the Saviors grace extends beyond mortality 

Gerrit Gong 

Jesus wept - he knows us and knows how to always be with us even in our moments of sadness and grief 

Another favorite thing about this weekend was how chill the triplets were. Typically, they have almost no “chill” when it comes to watching conference unless we are engaging them and helping them partake in the experience. They are growing up and we have had more and more positive moments of gospel instruction in our home. Conference weekend was a leveled up version of any chill I’ve ever seen come out of these kids. We are well adjusted to a high level of crazy and can adapt and tune into the Spirit even in chaos, but the level of calm we had this time around was a tender mercy for sure.