Conference.

I just wanted to take a second and reflect on conference.

Growing up my grandparents always watched conference, but was never to strict about us kids watching it... and to be quite honest with the attention span I had, even making me watch it wouldnt do any good. lol... But as I have grown up and watched conference either with friends or family, I have become more and more interested in the talks, and being married and sealed in the temple I feel like the messages and talks hit more to home. Like being a wife and a mother (eventually) I feel like I need to listen so I have the tools to be the mother that Heavenly Father wants me to be.... and I love it. I love that I feel like President Monson sits down before conference and says "What does Justina Stagg need to work on and take from this session" no lie. I feel so good after listening to Him and all the church Leaders speak. Something that was really interesting to me this conference was actually what Landon had told me President Monson had talked about in Priesthood session, and it was about how the hardest thing that he has come by as being President was sealing cancellations (people who had gotten married in the temple, but then gotten a divorce for whatever reason) this made me so sad to hear, I'm sure as President that would be hard to do, after all you want all your members to live a happy life eternally with their loved one and to have to cancel that would be heartbreaking... and President Monson told a story from when he was bishop about a couple that had fought and fought and fought, and they called him at 2am asking him to help. When he got to the couples house they were sitting on opposite sides of the room and he sat in the middle, they were each talking to each other using President Monson as a medium. All of the sudden President Monson had gotten a revelation, and said "when was the last time you two went to the temple together" they said it had been a while, he told them that that Saturday theyd be going to a sealing and to meet him at the temple at 9. They didnt know whose sealing, and had agreed to go. At the beginning of the sealing they were sitting on a bench and as FAR away from each other as possible, when the sealing was over, President Monson said, they were sitting as close as they could, and after that their marriage was as strong as ever.

How amazing is it that he had this revelation to take this couple to the temple, watch a sealing, and their marriage be so strong after. I believe he also said, If you can remember the day you and your spouse got sealed every time you were frustrated, there would be no sealing cancellations. And that got me to thinking, the day I was sealed to Landon was the BEST day of my entire life. I remember the night I received my endowments, and went through the temple for my 1st time, and then 2 days later being sealed. The feeling I had those days were so amazing, I couldnt even begin to describe them. It makes me so happy to know that Landon will be mine forever, and I am going to remember to think back to that day that he was made mine often and remember that all those stupid small fights are worthless compared to that feeling. That those feelings trump any minor annoyance.

I am so grateful for the Gospel, and for the Church. I am so blessed to be able to listen to our living Prophet speak and give us guidance at a time when we all need it. I am so grateful for the atonement of Christ, and to be able to be sealed to my husband for time and all eternity. I know that this church is true, and I cant wait for the day when my daughter gets to get sealed to her husband, or when my son goes off to be be a missionary. I could not be a happier girl. I love the Gospel and I love our Heavenly Father.