Oh the joys of Church!

Erik and I got the great privilege to speak in Church today... Such fun!

It was great that we got to have the opportunity to share our testimonies. Erik's talk was out of the January Ensign, a talk by Jeffery R. Holland, "The Best is Yet to Come". It is about not dwelling on the past and to move upward and forward in life. It's good to learn from your past mistakes, but that wanting to go back into your past when life was "better" isn't what we need to focus on. He made a great analogy about the progression through the temple. How we start at ground level when we enter the Lord's House, and as we go to the various area's, we always are moving upward, until we reach our highest potential!

Here is the link to Elder Holland's talk. http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=9b0047a27a2b5210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD
He did AMAZING but of course I'm not bias at all!

My talk was also out of the same Ensign. It was called Making Mountains, the Parables of the Mountain and the Mountain Guide. It is a story about a mountain guide in Taiwan and how when he starts his hikes he asks his visitors what they want to see, the answer is usually that they want to get to the top of the mountain and they want to get there the quickest way possible. They tour guide tries to teach his visitors that what is on top of the mountain was once the base. You can appreciate the beauty of the mountain becomes more majestic after you've seen where it comes from. It is a great knowledge to have that we all need to start at the bottom, and move to the top, growing closer to the Lord is hard to do, there are many trials that we need to have in order to learn and grow.

Here is the link to the Story of my talk. http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=9b0047a27a2b5210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

I recommend all that actually read our blog to check out these two different stories.

We both are grateful to share our testimonies. We are so grateful for the opportunities we have to grow and learn together as Husband and Wife.