Steggy Thoughts

      Some may say that I am behind, but I just want to express my thoughts and feelings of the Easter season and the Atonement of Jesus Christ.      This Easter I really was able to reflect on the blessings that I have and how the Lord has blessed my family. We joke often that we have terrible luck but as I thought back on it this Easter, I saw that it is just the contrary. What an enormous blessing it is to be able to raise a family in whatever situation you may be in, the fact that I am able to be a mother and that I am able to give the blessing of being a father to my husband is such an amazing thing. I was able to watch my son color hard boiled eggs and search for plastic eggs in the yard, but I was also able to see him recognize who Jesus is as we watched videos about his Atonement and Resurrection. Being able to see his reverence as we shared some of our favorite scriptures as a family was such a warming moment.     The scripture that ...

      This last weekend we had General Conference, which is a worldwide conference for our church, everyone in the world is invited to attend this event. In doing so they get to hear from the Prophet of the Lord and other apostles speak to us about the Lord's teachings and their testimonies of His teachings.     So, in light of that I wanted to share some of the insights that I received from this Semi-Annual General Conference. Firstly, I wanted to point out something that President Russel M. Nelson (The Prophet) had to say during this Conference. He spoke about anger and being able to maintain your temper with others and just being kind to everyone that we meet. He told a story about when he was a surgeon that he was assisting and as he was doing so the head surgeon suddenly got angry, so much so that he threw his scalpel. This scalpel went across the table and stuck into the forearm of President Nelson, he then stated that, that was th...