"You Harvest What You Plant"

Today at church we had Ward Conference. Our bishopric spoke along with our stake president. They all gave really good inspiring talks. All of those men were filled with the spirit and their words filled my heart with the spirit. I can tell that they love this gospel and that they love their ward and the people they serve. Our stake president is President Henry B. Eyring's son and he talked about farming and harvesting. He said that we harvest what we plant. He made the analogy that if we plant bad habits in our lives, like missing curfew or only going to sacrament meeting, we harvest that and that is what we become familiar with. I really like that. We harvest what we plant. Through prayer, obedience, friends and family, we can overcome our bad habits and work towards a more righteous life.

In sunday school we talked about having the gift of the Holy Ghost and the gift of Eternal Life. There were many uplifting insights given and I loved all the comments made. Someone asked why Christ had to leave in order for the Comforter to be with them. I remember talking to a friend about that during a missionary experience. He was telling me that we don't need prophets on the earth because we have the Holy Ghost to reveal to us the true things of our Heavenly Father and the reason why prophets were on the earth before in the Bible was because we didn't have the Holy Ghost and that is why they needed prophets to reveal the truthfulness of their teachings. Well in sunday school we learned that if Christ was on the earth today, we wouldn't need the Holy Ghost to testify and confirm his existence because we can physically see and know for sure he is there and real. The Holy Ghost is a testifier of Christ and since Christ isn't here, the Holy Ghost is what helps us believe for ourselves. So in order for the disciples to receive a testimony of the Holy Ghost they needed to experience it and that could only happen if Christ was gone. At least that's how I understood the lesson today. It was really cool to think about it more and relate it back to a previous missionary experience I had in high school.

In Relief Society we talked about receiving personal revelation. Our wonderful teacher turned off the light in the classroom and then turned the light quickly back on. She asked what we noticed when that happened and people answered with "it was surprising, distracting (from what we were to be thinking about), and sudden." Then she had us close our eyes and look up towards the light and slowly open our eyes. She asked us what we noticed when we "gradually" opened our eyes. People answered "it was expected and" ... something else that I cant remember :) But then she used this analogy in our personal revelation. We usually or normally get personal revelation or answers to our prayers gradually. We all know that our prayers are answered in His time, not ours. But sometimes, our revelation is like a light switch where it happens suddenly and sometimes we don't always realize it or sometimes we don't expect it. I thought that analogy was pretty cool.

I just thought that church today overall was really good. I felt the spirit and felt like I learned something I didn't know before or hadn't thought of. This gospel never ceases to surprise me and I love it. It's so awesome to be taught the same principles over and over and still learn something new!

You harvest what you plant. Make good habits and break bad ones. May your sunday be filled with joy and happiness :)