Sherri Dew

I know... I don't usually get too serious in my posts. I had something that I've been thinking about and I felt like I should write it down.

I was invited by my mom to hear Sherri Dew speak at her RS Stake Conference. I'm sure that Sherri has a lot to do, and it was neat to be able to hear her speak. She spoke mainly about communication. She talked about how important communication is to us as humans... especially in our modern world of email, blogs, cell phones, etc... She talked about how when our communications are interrupted for even a day, we are desperate to get them back and how that is the way that it should be when our communication with our Heavenly Father is interrupted. She talked about how every prophet since Adam has taught about two things... (1) Jesus Christ and (2) us in the latter days. She talked about how Heavenly Father would never send someone... especially a woman... that isn't capable to deal with these times and their events. She said that us women are very influential in all the lives that we touch... it is part of our nature... and part of who we are as children of God. She also talked about how there are only three things that we need to succeed (not survive... but succeed) in this dispensation. First is to truly know yourself... who you are and why you're here. Second is to know who Jesus Christ is, know Him mission, and know how it affects you today. And third is to know how to receive and interpret personal revelation. One thing that struck me at this point is that all three of these things are not steps and they are something that is accessible to anyone... they are not high and lofty things only attainable to choice spirits. They are every day... as long as anyone really has the desire to truly do them. Two more things that she said had an impact on me. She talked about how it has taken her over 30 years to learn how to understand the revelations that the Spirit brings into her life, and how she prayed not only to receive that revelation but to ask the Lord to tutor her in understanding them. How often do we receive answers to our prayers and we don't know it or how to interpret those answers?

She gave me a lot to think about and she reminded me of an impression that I received during this last General Conference. The economy was just starting to look like it wouldn't recover quickly... I was worried because we had spent our savings on buying our house and we hadn't recouped it over the year that we'd lived in it. If our family had an emergency, we didn't have much to fall back on. But listening to all the talks in conference, the spirit settled my heart. I was told that it didn't matter if we still owned our home 4 years from now or if Jeremy didn't have a job. These were all temporary things and they didn't serve us in the long term. All that mattered was what we decided to do with our lives, our family. I was told that all would be well, no matter what came. I was grateful for that personal revelation.