CLEAVE TO YOUR NEVER'S !!

The Singles Conference is over. It was a long 4 days filled with a lot of super activities ie: Temple Session on Thursday night, a "Preparedness Fair" on Friday night followed by a dance.

Saturday we had a Continental breakfast, then into the chapel for 3 awesome speakers! We then had a lunch followed by several classes of which you could pick 3 to attend. Tony and I split up and went to different classes so we could share information with one another later. I chose "Manna From Heaven" a bread making class as well as "Ready, Set, Shop" a couponing class. Tony went to "Swimming with the Sharks" ( dealing with adverse things we deal with on a daily basis) and "Providing Your Own Personal Bailout" which dealt with getting financially secure. We had to miss the last class because we had to go to Wal-Mart to pick up the chicken for dinner. So of course we had a nice dinner followed by games and then another dance. We were at the church from 9AM to after midnight. Sunday night we had a Fireside and two more wonderful speakers. Patriarch Keller and President Hughes. We then served ice cream in waffle bowls as well as cake. We had several people comment to us that it was "THE BEST" singles conference they had ever attended! Made us feel really good.



I was impressed and learned a lot but there were two things that really made an impression on my heart and I want to record them.

#1. "Cleave to Your Nevers"..................What you may say does that mean? A sister that spoke to us on being happy ! She told us we need to learn to love ourselves. We need to be happy with what we have both physically and mentally! We can't compare ourselves to others and wish we were smarter or prettier or thinner or whatever the case my be. God loves us and our main concern is to be happy with what we have been blessed with and continually try to improve ourselves. We need to set goal for ourselves to help us become better. Here's where the "Cleave to your Never's" come in. She said she was visiting her daughter in S.L.C. and she stayed in her grand daughter's room. She had a sign on her door that read
"Cleave to YourNever's" .....................

then she told us some of the never's to better ourselves..........

1. Never smoke

2. Never drink

3. Never lie

4. Never swear...................what ever your nevers are that would make you a better person. I really liked that concept and I think I will remember it the rest of my life.

Simple, but effective!

The 2nd thing I learned that I never knew is that we can get a recorded "Father's Blessing" that we can keep along with our Patriarchal Blessing. Those are the only two blessings that are recorded that we can refer back to. (and should refer back to often)
It so impressed me that I am going to talk to my dad and see if I can get a blessing from him when I go home in July that I can companion with my Patriarchal blessing.

Anyway, the conference was awesome. I am so grateful that Tony is involved with this program and we are very blessed to be able to attend. It was an uplifting past 4 days!