Blogging, Birthdays and Trunk or Treat

I totally missed my conference blog last week due to all the birthdays, Halloween  pre-parties, and just way too many things going to to even get to my computer.  Oh, and I was preparing a talk for Sacrament meeting too last week.  I was busy.

This week's conference book club talk link is:
 http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/an-unspeakable-gift-from-god?lang=eng

"An Unspeakable Gift from God" by Elder Craig C. Christensen of the Presidency of the Seventy

A few of my thoughts:

One of the unique doctrines of  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that of the Godhead and the role the Holy Ghost place in that unit.  We as members of the Church, know and understand the Gift of the Holy Ghost is something we receive at the time of our baptism and confirmation.  This gift is a blessing to us so long as we remain faithful and obedient to the covenants we make.   We are blessed to have the companionship of the Holy Ghost as a guide for us here in mortality.

Quoting the talk, "President Boyd K. Packer has taught: “The Holy Ghost speaks with a voice that you feel more than you hear. … While we speak of ‘listening’ to the whisperings of the Spirit, most often one describes a spiritual prompting by saying, ‘I had a feeling … ’.”¹⁸ It is through these sacred feelings from the Holy Ghost that we come to know what God would have us do, for this, as stated in scripture, “is the spirit of revelation.”¹⁹

This conference address is a very good explanation for non-members or new converts to explain our beliefs about the third member of the Godhead. 

I recommend using it as a family home evening lesson too.