When the Prophet says jump … we say, “How high?”

We love General Conference weekend in our family! (well… the kids love the Conference Mix that we make… and the traditions of the weekend as a family. I know as we continue doing these things, the children will begin to LOVE THE SPIRIT of the weekend, hearing the word of God from living prophets)

With Spring Break this past week, we headed to Salt Lake to have lunch with Jimmy in the Church Office Building Cafeteria and to see beautiful Temple Square. It was lovely! The kids just wanted to hang out by the reflection pool by the temple. Max really wanted to go in the temple but still thought touching the huge doors was cool. Truman wanted to climb up to the top of the temple. Eliza just wanted to run through the flower beds. Abe told me how good he felt being on temple square.

We have had a good conference weekend. Hannah and Abe and Max have sat through most of it. I think they even tried to listen to most of it. Hannah has some great notes. She was in charge of writing the Apostles topics on our Conference Wall hanging. Abe thought President Uchtdorf’s talk on ‘walking in the light’ was a good one. Liza fiddled around most of the time. Tru played outside and watched Dora upstairs for half of it. Which means that I was able to listen to 95% of conference. I love that! A true Conference Miracle.
While Jimmy was at the Priesthood Session, the rest of us went on a walk in perfect weather to the ponds to skip rocks. The kids love playing at the park in our neighborhood. Bedtime was late, but we are loving this Spring weather so it was hard to come home too early.

This morning we had a family devotional and talked about scripture heroes who were quick to obey and not question the Lord’s Commandments. We tried to explain the phrase … “When the Prophet says jump … we say, “how high?”

Nephi – built a boat. Didn’t complain about not knowing how … he asked, “Where should I go to make tools?”
Nephi – went to get the plates. I will go & do… I know the Lord will deliver them unto us.
Samuel the Lamananite – preach unto the wicked Nephites. I will go in faith.

Those were just a few of the scripture stories we came up. I love this principle of faithfully obeying the prophet & God. Max always loves to think of comments so he can raise his hand and participate. His comment this morning went something like this…