#4: General Conference

I was lucky enough to be able to go to general conference this last weekend. The experience of sitting in the conference center was completely different from watching it at home. I was able to pay closer attention to the speakers, and feel the Spirit through the whole meeting. My favorite talk was given by President Uchtdorf in the Saturday morning session. He is one of my favorite church leaders, and I loved hearing and seeing him in real life. One thing that I learned at conference wasn't something that any of the speakers said. I think that a lot of the time, we view church leaders as these God-like beings that are perfect. While they are very in tune with the Spirit and close to God, I was able to see that they are normal people, just like the rest of us. They have to go through trials with health and hardships just like the rest of us and rely on God just as much as everyone else has to. Learning that was very important to me because it helped me realize that no one is perfect and it just takes practice to be able to recognize the Spirit.