Do you Love Me?

WHOAA!!!! CONFERENCE WAS SOOOO AMAAAZZINNNGG!!!!!! I have never appreciated conference as much as i did this conference... i feel soooo stupid for taking it for granted all those years! I'm such an IDIOT!!! haha But seriously though... we have a LIVING prophet, and LIVING apostles! How amazing is that!!!!!!!! And they are all soooo brilliant! I can't get over it! But this was the first question i have actually WRITTEN a question down and looked for an answer and guess what... it was ANSWERED!!! hahaha imagine that right? But it was soo good just to know that Heavenly Father really does want to answer us and gives revelation through the leaders of his church! As for what i like most, I don't even know where to begin! But i will start with Holland.... WOW!!! It really made me think, Do I love Christ? and Do I truly put him at the center of my life?! I love how straight forward he was and just made it so clear that we need to focus on Christ! I feel like often times we get caught up in the little things of the Church and forget the why we have the church in the first place! we are the church of JESUS CHRIST of latter day saints! I have especially noticed it here, testimony in Jesus is a lot harder to develop b/c the concept of the Atonement can be very hard to describe to people with no Christian background. But it is possible! haha I do want to try and improve on my teaching and focusing it more on Christ though. So that is my goal from here on out! I also loved Ballard's advice to make sure we pray every morning to find someone to serve and than constantly be looking for that person/people to serve! Which leads into Oaks' talk and serve kids! AHHH!! His talk was so eye opening right??? It made me sooo sad! But we do need to focus on those people who can't help themselves and make sure that we can serve them! And then as we do all these things we will be able to have more opportunities to serve others, like Pres. Monson said.. As we start to listen to the Holy Ghost and find the little ways to be answers to others prayers, we will be able to have those opportunities more often and they will be revealed to us b/c Heavenly Father trusts us and knows that we will act on them! So my commitment to you all is to do all of these things! Pray to find someone to serve. Seek those opportunities during the day. Follow those promptings and just do it! Don't make any excuses or justifications just DO IT!!!! Ok so that is my commitment and i really hope that you all do it! I am working on it to! But i know that if we do we can be the answer to other people's prayers! and that is so important! This week we had an investigator ask us, Why did you sacrifice to come here? You're not getting paid, so what do you get out of this? That really made me think, and i decided i really hate the word sacrifice and relating it to missionary work. Because it's really not a sacrifice at all! I have gained sooooooo much more as a missionary than i could have ever gained in school, or dating, or marriage, etc. etc. I have grown closer to my savior personally and i have been able to see others grow closer to their savior as well! And that's what we get out of this! We get to have more faith, and we get to see the happiness and joy that comes to others as they gain faith and recognize the blessings of having the gospel in their lives! Anyways it just really made me think of what I have gained here and if this is a "sacrifice" I will gladly sacrifice forever! Because i really have gained more in the past what 7 months? than i have in the past 21 years of my life! Anyways. This week was awesome. I love Conference! I hope everyone got as much out of it as i did! Love you all! Love, S. Itri