Thoughts About Conference

This weekend was General Conference for church and it was amazing. There were so many good talks that I can't decide which one is my favorite. There was also a big announcement for the entire church and that was that the missionary age has been lowered to 18 for young men (as long as they have graduated high school) and 19 for young women! This was so awesome! I know so many people that will benefit from the opportunity to serve a mission earlier than they anticipated. 

There were many things that stood out to me during this conference 

but one of them was when President Monson said 

"Take an inventory of your life and look specifically for the blessings, large and small, that you have received."

This was amazing and it made me really think about all the blessings that we have received in our lives. And so, I decided to start keeping track of the little things that we are blessed with every day. It is my plan to write a few of them on here everyday buuuuuuuut for those of you that follow along, you know that that never happens, even though I keep saying that I am going to write on here all the time.

So I decided to keep a journal of it and write in IT every night and then I would post a few of the coolest things on here every once in a while. 

So my first blessing that I recognized was from the other day. If you pay attention to facebook, you may have already seen this, but oh well, you're going to see it again :)

This semester, we put ourselves on a budget because, lets be honest, how else are you supposed to save money? So we put ourselves on a pretty tight budget and for our bills section, we gave ourselves $125. That covers phone, gas, electric and internet. Well, we had paid for the phone, internet and electric and only had $12.52 left in the account for bills. I was worried that we would go over when we got our gas bill and that we would have to pull from some other section in our budget.
I got the bill, and nervously opened it up to see what the damage was and the bill was for $12.30. I know that for some people it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but for us, it was a big realization that we are being looked after and that we are being blessed every day.

I can't wait to keep looking for the small little blessings that happen in my life. :)