Sunday, April 2, 2017

Feeling the Spirit at Conference time...

I have been trying to catch up on my blog lately, but unfortunately, it's not coming along quickly. I have been trying to write in my journal more as well and so I'm trying to make this my journal. Although I still have so much to catch up on with my blog, I wanted to write about an experience that I had this weekend while watching General Conference. I was listening to the Saturday morning session and Elder Brough was speaking. I was really excited to listen to this speaker since he is in our ward. I listened and loved the talk, but then he spoke about an experience he had where he was praying if Heavenly Father really cared. He said he had gone to the Logan temple and was about to do a session when the temple President, President Featherstone, came in and said, "Hello brother Brough. It's nice to see you today." (I may have that wrong, I need to look it up and write exactly what he said. He said, how he felt the spirit so strong and he knew that Heavenly Father did care and that he felt of his love. As he spoke of this experience, I had a remembrance come to mind of a similar experience and realized that I needed to really pay attention because the Spirit was trying to teach me something. I remembered a similar experience I had during my time up at Utah State. I remember going into the baptistry one night at the Logan temple. I walked in and immediately was greeted by the temple president, temple President Vaughn J. Featherstone, and he said, "Sister Kawaguchi, its so great to see you in the temple tonight." I remember feeling that Heavenly Father knew me and was aware of me. As I remembered this experience, I was filled with the spirit and felt how much Heavenly Father was aware of me then and is aware of me now. I felt like he gave me this experience to help me remember how he is always aware of my struggles and what is going on in my life. He knows me by name. Tears streamed down my face and I felt the spirit witness to me of my worth and Divine Nature. I paused conference and said a little prayer to thank Heavenly Father for this experience and help me understand the promptings of the spirit. I am very grateful for General Conference and how Heavenly Father can speak to us individually.