Conference Was Amazing!!

(A/N: Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Here is the week's email from Hermana Ramos-Escobar. Enjoy!)

Needless to say, General Conference was AMAZING!! I absolutely love conference!! I was counting down the weeks since June!! I was soo ready to hear from our Prophet and the apostles!!

I think I'm going to just share things that I loved!

I loved how President Uchtdorf asked if we were making our discipleship too complex? A lot of the times, I have to remind myself to teach simply...that all we really need to understand is the basics! The gospel truly is so simple! 

I loved Larry R. Lawrence's talk!! I love how he tells us to constantly ask "What lack I yet?" He left us with a commitment to humbly ask: "What is keeping me from progressing?" In other words, "What lack I yet?" This is something that I have learned on the mission. You are never going to be done progressing and learning. Before my mission, I was fine with being who I was. I didn't strive to become better, and now I see how essential that is. It is so crucial that we try to become more like Christ each and everyday!

I loved how Elder Cook said: "Life is not easy not was it meant to be."

Robert D. Hales...he gave an AMAZING talk!! His talk was just good overall! One of my favorite parts was that he asked if we will let ourselves be led. Heavenly Father can't help us out unless we let him do so. I've also learned that on my mission!

President Monson also gave a great talk! It was sad to see him slowly go down...I love him so much!

One talk that I absolutely loved was from Devin G. Durrant. He gave us the counsel to "Ponderize"...I'm sure everyone is talking about it on social media. But absolutely love that! Ponderize...I've decided that in each of my e-mails I'm going to try my best to remember to include the scripture that I will be ponderizing that week!

For this week, I chose a scripture from the Bible, from the New Testament: John 8:28.

 "Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things."

I came across this scripture a couple of weeks ago and the one part that stuck out to me was "that I do nothing of myself." Christ really did nothing for himself...everything that he did was for others. This morning, I was talking to a missionary that is getting ready to head home and he said that he noticed throughout his mission that his happiest times where when he was thinking about others and not of himself. I testify that that is true. I too have found that throughout my mission.

I love Christ so much. I love knowing that He loves me soo much that He was willing to be lifted up for us. I know that He is my Savior and that He truly loves me with all His heart and I wish and hope that everyone comes to know that for themselves.

I love you all!

Love,

Hermana Ramos-Escobar