10 day social media fast!

I've been doing the 10 day social media fast since President Nelson gave the challenge at the women's conference 6 days ago. I've done plenty of fasts from social media before, just on my own because I got tired of it. But oddly enough this one has been a lot harder, I was talking to someone and we decided it's Satan trying to get to us. Since we actually are following the prophet on not doing it over just deciding to not do it on our own.

Another challenge at the women's conference was to read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year. I'm in 1 Nephi at the moment and reading all about Laman and Lemuel who ALWAYS complained about everything. It's always kind of annoying reading about those two since they always complained so much. Well I was at work today and one of the ladies there was telling me that she's seen huge complaints on social media this week in relation to President Okes talk at conference. I actually saw it somewhat in some group pages right before I started the 10 day fast. I actually looked up the talk tonight because I didn't know what anyone could be complaining about in relation to that talk. I'm still shaking my head because he didn't say anything to abnormal. Other then he did say things in relation to the proclamation to the family. Anyway I find it odd that anything bad is being said about that talk.

But I was thinking about it and I guess it's kind of like Laman and Lemuel who took the truth to be hard. If someone's going to complain about a conference talk then something is amiss.
I decided maybe that was the foresight of President Nelson and maybe some of us needed a break from facebook so we'd miss the complaining. I loved conference and don't want to be affected by those complaining about a church leader stating the truth.

General Conference!

This weekend was general conference, which was great!! It's funny but I totally was thinking during just about every talk how something in it applied to my life. Of course by the time conference was over I could barely remember any of the talks. But I concluded it's because if your spirit guided during conference then you'll be connected to spirit guided things that are said. Clearly all conference talks are spirit guided, especially since we always hear people say 'I had a question and it was answered in conference.' I actually did have that experience, life was seeming pretty good so I didn't come up with a question until last night. It was in relation to someone I've had a lot of problems with, super hard to figure out what to do with the situation. But then the second or third talk in the morning session was by Elder Holland on not holding onto problems with people. I was kind of frustrated with that talk actually, but it seemed like Elder Anderson's talk afterward fit right with it on not giving up during trials. So once again it's pretty clear the talks in conference are spirit guided, since I doubt they talked together about their topics beforehand.

But it was a great weekend and one of those where I hate to see the weekend come to an end. Not because I hate going to work on Monday, but because conference was so spiritual and honestly it's probably what people in the spirit world experience all the time. (just a thought) I wish at times like this that I didn't have to go back into the world, but there's no way around it. In order to not be apart of the world I'd have to stay in my apartment and go no where. But it goes to show that conference was great and hope others agree with that!

I found it interesting where President Nelson put emphasis on going to the temple. I have tried to do that a lot anyway since there is a temple in my town. But it made me wonder if the world will get even worse then it is. Anyway I am doing the 10 day fast from social media or at least facebook, since I don't do the others a lot. I am trying to find temple names, but I hit a dead end after finding about 15 on one family line. I have decided that during the 10 days of no facebook I'll try to find names and index. Funny enough indexing isn't bad, you just have to find the stuff that is easier to read. I had tips given to me from people in my ward on doing the war records. Most of those are generally easier to read and besides there is someone who reviews what you do. So need to fear, if you do it wrong someone else should catch it. The idea of it could be done wrong isn't a good excuse to not index. Anyway hope others will join me on finding family names and indexing. Happy Sunday!!