180th General Conference Part IV

Just realised that I hadn't posted anything on the last session of General Conference...  Better late than never, I suppose.  At least I beat the May issue of the Ensign magazine, which has all the conference talks.  Or rather, it hasn't made it to my letter box yet... 

So here we go, with a few of the things that caught my attention during the final session:

• It is not why we face trials, it's how we face them.
• It's easy to look back and see what we learned from an trial.  The trick is to learn from the trial while we are experiencing it.
• Learn to serve and think of others, even in the midst of trial.  Jesus Christ is the supreme example of this attitude.
• Those who live only for themselves shrivel up.  Those who serve others grow.
• A peaceful environment is not just external, it is internal.
• The world seems to have slipped from the moorings of morality and the piers of peace.  Look to the Lighthouse of the Lord.

So there you have it.  Two great days full of inspired teachings from men of God.  And now I'm waiting with foot-tapping impatience for this month's Ensign... not to mention the 180th Semi-Annual General Conference, coming up in October.  Good times.