Stake Conference This Week at Northridge Stake Layton Utah 30 October 2015

Adult Session of Stake Conference

Elder Peter S Evans of the Seventy presided at the meeting.

The Lord is bringing people to Utah to learn about the gospel. We should pay attention to our neighborhood for ways we can serve our neighbors.

“Question: Why do you feel so strongly about family councils?

           

“Elder Ballard: There has never been a time when the world was in greater need of the strength and security that are best sown and cultivated in the deep, fertile soil of family love. The family is under heavy attack from antagonists bent on extinguishing this powerful source of light in a darkening world. Successful families have a wide assortment of tools, and one of the most useful tools is the family council.“ (Ensign June 2003, “Family Councils: A Conversation with Elder and Sister Ballard”)

This Week At Northridge Stake Conference Layton Utah 5-17-2015 and 5-18-2015

5-17-2015

General Session of Stake Conference

When was the last time you knelt in prayer and asked your Father in Heaven what he would like you to understand in your patriarchal blessing?

"I express my utmost confidence in your abilities. You have the Savior of the world on your side. If you seek His help and follow His directions, how can you fail?" (Bishop Gary E Stevenson, “Your Four Minutes”, April 2014 General Conference)

The Layton stakes are being shifted from the Ogden temple district to the Bountiful temple district.

5-16-2015

Adult session of Stake Conference

Couple and Family Councils - Schedule a time to talk rather than just jumping in and starting to talk. This respects each other's time and gives everyone time to prepare to have an intelligent discussion.

Develop a unity as parents before sitting down with the kids. Do not let the kids play one parent against each other.

When it is scheduled then there is less chance get an intense emotional response.

Perhaps give the topic you want to talk about in advance so family members have time to collect their thoughts and pray.

Doctrine and Covenants 50:10-12

10 And now come, saith the Lord, by the Spirit, unto the elders of his church, and let us reason together, that ye may understand;

11 Let us reason even as a man reasoneth one with another face to face.

12 Now, when a man reasoneth he is understood of man, because he reasoneth as a man; even so will I, the Lord, reason with you that you may understand.

How do we give the sabbath and our sacrament meetings back to the Savior?

How will you "always remember him"?

Isaiah 58:13-14

13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

What we do on the sabbath is a sign between each of us and God as to our commitment.