Change of Plans

We were all scheduled and excited to go on the Provo River Cruise for our Family Night activity tonight, but then Tyrel woke up sick, so we had to reschedule. We were going to go Wednesday night instead, then we remembered that we had been invited to a sealing and Travis is scheduled to go on missionary splits on Wednesday, so we might have to go on Saturday night since that is our next free evening, or maybe next Monday. But that was too long to go without having a family night lesson, so Trevin pulled one together quickly. Normally, the Monday after conference, we all talk about our favorite Conference talk and have a little testimony meeting by all. Sean had different plans for last Monday's lesson, so Trevin did it this time. I was impressed that over a week later, everyone still remembered a talk or two. We even had a good discussion about a couple of them with input from everyone. I love my children and the testimonies of the gospel they are developing. I'm so thankful for a living prophet on the earth and for the chance we get every six months to listen to Conference and hear things that build our testimonies and uplift us and remind us that our Heavenly Father loves us and is watching out for our needs.

Trevin talked about M. Russell Ballard's talk on addiction and about how it doesn't need to be drugs or alcohol only that can be addicting, but things like watching too much TV or playing too many video games. He reminded us that we need to take time to do other things and have a variety of wholesome activities to occupy our time
Sean talked about Boyd K Packer's talk and President Monson's talk about how we have our agency and we can choose our actions, but we cannot choose our consequences. About how the world tries to get more people to do wrong things because of guilt so the can feel better about the wrong choices they are making. How they think if they can get enough people to do it and make laws saying it is legal, then they won't feel as guilty about doing things they know are wrong and that even though things are legal according to the laws of the land, that doesn't mean they are ok to do. God's laws are unchanging.

Tyrel talked about Jeffrey R Hollands talk about the sacrifices his parents made in order for him to serve his mission. We will all be asked to make sacrifices in our lives and hopefully those sacrifices we make will make the lives of others better.
Travis talked about President Uchtdorf's talk from the Priesthood session how he compared us to a pen. When we use a pen, we are in control of what that pen writes and how we need to be pen's in God's hands doing his will. (I think that was the main gist of what he was saying)

I talked about the talk in the last session (I need to look up who gave it because I can't remember) but he talked about the girl who had the job of making sure the cows didn't get out of the fence into the wheat field because they would eat the wheat, bloat and die. He compared that to our lives and choices. Just like the fence, we have commandments and those commandments are not restrictive, but a protection to us. If we stay inside those boundaries that the Lord has set, we will be happier and have better lives. He knows what will bring us happiness better than we know and we need to look at the things we have been commanded to do as protections, not restrictions. I thought it was a very good analogy.