Rasmania 101: A wonderful Sabbath and pre-Halloween pictures

I am starting to be engaged in my new calling with presidency meetings, stake correlation meetings, and even sports activities. I finally got set apart this afternoon, and I am glad to finally have the mantle to help me in my call. It was a spiritual experience to meet with the stake leaders and the other women in my presidency and be personally blessed to be able to serve in this capacity. It has been a rewarding sabbath day. I started out at Nick and Sara's ward to watch Ori in her primary program. She was amazing. Following the program I said to her, "Ori, you did so well. You sang every song and you knew every word." Her response, "Well, Not really. I just watched the teacher." She didn't realize that was amazing, too--for a four year old to pay enough attention to the leader that it appeared she had memorized every song. She even followed along with the sign language they used on "A Child's Prayer."

Following Ori's program, I hurried (late) to the YSA stake conference meeting at the regional center in Bountiful, where I enjoyed a few more inspiring messages.
In the Saturday night meeting we were addressed by a couple of YSA's, and a couple of leaders. The concluding speaker was President King (Michelle King's husband). He spoke on obedience. He said that obedience started in the Garden of Eden. Adam was obedient to the commandment to offer sacrifice. Why? Because he had been asked to. Adam was faithful and true because of what he did know.
"[Christ] learned obedience by the things which he suffered." Hebrews 5:8. Christ did not put himself above the laws of his father. We are required to be subject to someone Always, starting with our parents (honor thy father and thy mother...), and always our God. Don't think you can escape being subject to someone. It is part of the eternal plan.
Being obedient is what the Mosaic law taught--Strict obedience is the higher, celestial law. Elder Bednar cautioned us:
We must be careful because pharisaical focus upon checklists can divert us from drawing closer to the Lord. See Elder Bednar's talk
President King reminded us that we are a covenant making people and that our covenants protect us. Being obedient needs to be less of an irritant and become our quest. President King promised us that as we are obedient to God's commandments, laws and promises, our lives will be blessed. I know this is true because my life is so blessed from striving to live the laws of God.
We also had the opportunity to go to a temple session on Saturday, making for a wonderful weekend, filled with the spirit of God.

Adrienne and AJ attended a U of U game in California. I tended the boys for half the time the were away as a gift for AJ's birthday. The boys were good. Gunnar loves it when I give him sewing projects. Finn and I spent some time in the hot tub together while the other two were at school. All in all it was a pretty good 24 hours. Jennie got the hard job of getting them ready for bed because Roy and I both had church meetings. I didn't get a picture of the boys, but I stole a cute one off Instagram of Adrienne, AJ and Ila at the game