12 April 2008 – Saturday

I am listening to President Uchtdorf’s conference on “Faith of our Father.” I liked the way he moved from being true to the faith of our earthly father to being true to the faith of our Heavenly Father – that is the restored Church of Jesus Christ on the earth today.

We are reading in 3 Nephi of the coming of the Savior. Today we read about the events leading up to His appearance. The Nephites at the temple do not understand the small voice the first two times. I wonder how many times the Lord tries to get our attention and we fail to understand or ignore the prompting of the spirit. The Lord asked Paul why he fought against the pricks of the Spirit telling him that he was not doing His will. Joseph ignored the Lord telling him twice not to give the 116 pages to Martin Harris but He allowed him to do what he wanted when he asked the third time. So sometimes the Lord persists to insure that we understand and other times He seems to let us make the mistake in the hopes that we will learn from the experience.

We went to the chapel at 9:30 because the schedule we got from President Smith said that was when the first session would start. When we got there we found the President and other missionaries had changed and started at 8:00 because the Selatan branch decided to change their starting time. So instead of seeing the first session we saw the second Saturday session. The talk that touched me most was Elder Oaks on Testimony. It got me thinking about subjects for my talk on the 27th.

After that session, because we had watched the PH session on Wednesday we did not stay to watch it. The Walkers suggested that we go to get something to eat and we decided on Chili’s. So we had a nice lunch and talk with the Walkers. They are a great and fun couple. Elder Walker does all he can to get projects he feels are good ones approved. However I am afraid he is going to be disappointed on some of them. I mentioned that one thing I have learned is that we need to have patience and faith that the Lord is in charge and what needs to happen will happen in His good time.

The rest of the day was spent at the apartment. Mary finished three and started a fourth infant caps. I studied Indonesian, listened to conference talks and caught up the journal. I am afraid we are spending too much time of projects and not enough on helping people.