General Conference Countdown

I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  Our church has a living Prophet and Apostles on the earth today.  They lead and direct our church and speak the will of the Lord to us.  It is my belief that Heavenly Father loves us just as much as he did the people who lived on the earth during the time of Moses and Abraham and other ancient prophets.  He wants us to hear His word and know His will just as much as he did the people of ancient days.  So why would he not give us a Prophet in our day?  

Every April and October our church holds a General Conference.  It is a two day event and during that time we are able to hear from the Prophet, Thomas S. Monson, and his counselors.  We are also able to hear from other leaders in our church.   Their messages are always uplifting and inspiring and very relevant to the struggles and trials we are dealing with at this time in earths history.  The Conference is held at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City but it is viewed by our almost 15 million members world wide via modern technology.  

I have never been so excited about General Conference before.  I have always loved it and looked forward to it, but for some reason, this year is different.  I have been so excited and making preparations for over a month now.  We live in such a troubling time.  The earth is in constant commotion.  I just feel like things are spinning out of control in every direction I look.  I think I have been looking so forward to Conference because I want to gather my family around me for a few days and just shut out the outside world and be still and hear the comforting words of the Lord and make a new commitment as an individual and as a family to better heed the will of God.

I wanted to get my kids excited about General Conference too.  I have some fun things planned for this weekend and I know what they are, but they don't.  So it is easy for me to be excited, but I wanted to do something to excite them and get them to look forward to this weekend just as much as I am.  I made little notes with a treat attached that I have been leaving by their bed each night for them to find when they wake up in the morning.  Here are the treats they have received so far:

(PS: This is the first time I have had Skittles since they changed the green to green apple.  Shame on you Skittles.  Shame on you.  I shall never purchase you ever again.  Why mess with a good thing?  I eat skittles in certain color combinations and the only thing green apple goes with is grape.  Lime, that went with all the other colors.  It was my go to color.  So thanks a lot!)

I have also been putting General Conference memes in their lunches this week.  

This was the one in their lunches today.

Tomorrow I am getting together with some friends to make some AWE-SOME (please use a sing-song voice when you read AWE-SOME) stuff for this weekend.  I am so excited, I just can't hide it!  I'm so excited, I joined Pintrest (something I swore I'd never do), just so I could find and pin General Conference ideas (sorry if you started following me on Pintrest and now you are like- how lame can this chick be?  If you would like to watch General Conference you can do so by clicking here.  On that link you can also find ideas for preparing for conference and activities for kids.