Conference

To study the words again of conference is to gain more of an understanding of what the Lord and Heavenly Father wants us to do in our lives. Listening to Elder Hales talk, I felt I needed to again review conference so I can know what I need to do for myself and my family!
My cousin Diana is on her mission and I love how she takes the time to write to me on her P-days. Last week was a good week and I told her this:
 Hello Sis Chapman!

I have decided that this week is going to be a good week. We set up our calendar and I have goals to accomplish. One is spend time with my children and study the scriptures more. Keep up with my callings for church and get out of my comfort zone and talk to people. :) Also to get my house under control. I also need to get started on my Christmas gifts which will take some time.

I love reading your e-mail about tender mercies. I know we have had many lately. Especially when we pay tithing we seem to always be covered on our temporal needs. Just today though Moroni was having a really hard time and I really couldn't figure out what was going on. I literally had to hold him for Half and hour and I asked him if he wanted to pray and he said yes so we did and he calmed down so much and started listening so much better! I am about to cry thinking about it. There was another one last night. I won't go into details but I will say my Husband was aware of my needs. :) There is so many more like the new bible videos that we used for home evening on monday and everyone became so calm and I was actually able to look back on my day and say that yes though it was rough it was still a good day and we have solutions for a problem in our ward as well. :)

I will write some more later but right now I have to go cut up some pineapple yum!

Love you

Jeri

Her response was:

Hi Jeri,

Way to go on taking action to make things happen in your life. And I love that you put your family and the Lord first on the priority list and everything else can be built around that. I promise you that you will be blessed in more ways than you can ever imagine when you do that.  One thing I have come to realize is that we can't control everything in our lives and what happens but we can control how we feel and we can take action to help make our lives more in line with Heavenly Father. We can choose to suffer through life or we can choose to to take action to improve ourselves and our lives. When I finally gave up that control and just did the things the Lord asked me to do, Blessings were poured out to me and I have such a testimony of it.  I can already tell blessings are coming to you because of your willingness to do what the Lord has asked of you.

You are such a strength to me and I know that you are such a strength to your family and I hope you will continue to do that. I love you sooooo much and I had this sudden urge that I needed to tell you that Heavenly Father LOVES you unconditionally and that he wants nothing more than to have an amazing Father Daughter relationship with you and that if you continue to put your faith and trust in him, the righteous desires of your heart will be fulfilled. Stay close to him! I will talk to you soon. Tell everyone I said HI and I love you all!

Sister Chapman

I want to have the Father Daughter Relationship so I can teach my children to have it! She was so inspired this was definitely what I needed to hear or read. If I just keep going and doing what I know I need to I can gain all that I wish that is righteous. I just have to exercise faith and patience. It will come if I do all I can to have His spirit. I also need to continue with the Addiction Recovery Program that is offered. It is amazing how much the Lord gives us and many of us do not use or are too Prideful to use. I love the spirit that is there and they are wonderful people to help and guide us through our struggles and be more positive.

https://www.lds.org/liahona/2013/11/saturday-morning-session/general-conference-strengthening-faith-and-testimony?lang=eng#listen=audio