Time Out for Women

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Last Friday and Saturday I was blessed to be able to attend Time Out for Women in Pleasanton with my mom, sister, and sisterinlaw. My inlaws stayed a couple days longer to help Kurt watch the kids so I could go. THANK YOU! It seems like whenever I take notes at a meeting I lose them...so I will be boring you all with my notes in an attempt to keep them for myself.

WENDY WATSON NELSON (aka Elder Nelson's wife he married in 2006)

• Advice: prayerfully take a question to General Conference and it will be answered!
• "She has a superior spirituality in the marriage relationship, and the opportunity to encourage, uplift, teach, and be the one who sets the example in the family for righteous living. When women come to the point of realizing that it is more important to be superior than to be equal, they will find the real joy in living those principles that the Lord set out in his divine plan” ( Teachings of Howard W. Hunter, 139).
• Nagging=Repetitive Encouragement
• Share story about being robbed in Mozambique . The mission president's wife 1) Identified the problem (that they were in fact being robbed) and 2) Ran for help. We can find peace when we're on the Lord's errand.
• "Life is a spook alley." --Truman Madsen
• Premortal Commitments (Things to do while on Earth) - We won't find joy if we're not doing them. We can ask Heavenly Father for help. The Savior is the best therapist-turn to him.
• "The Spirit has a nearly impossible task to get through a heart filled with hate or anger or vengence or self-pity." --Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
• $100 Word of Wisdom Challenge- paid nephew $100 if by age 18 he never broke the Word of Wisdom. Issued challenge at age 6.
• "Not Even Once" - 3 words to live by. Commit to something. Alma 57:21. Satan will sneak in if we mess up and try to convince us that we failed - turn to the Lord, we can always commit and start over.
• CHALLENGE - Take one question to the scriptures daily for 30 days (2 Nephi 32:3). Keep a journal - Date, Question Asked, Spiritual Reference, and Answer.

SHERI DEW ("Women in the Church")

• Every privilege ever given in her life can be traced to her membership in the church.
• We can't underestimate the power of INFLUENCE! Are we the "Influencer" or "Influencee"? What kind of influence fo we have?
• What you focus on determines what you see!
• When you focus on the world..you see nothing else.
• When you focus on the Savior you see him increasingly and the workings of the adversary.
• “Sometimes we act as though we’re going to stay here on this earth, when we aren’t, we can’t and we won’t.” - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland (given at a funeral)
• Disruptive Strategies Satan uses:
  
• 1. Confused about who you are. ANSWER: We are a child of God. Study/read Section 138 & Abraham 3 - "noble & great ones"
  
• 2. Never find out what Christ did (atonement) and how he can help. ANSWER: Understand what Lord did for us. Read Luke 4:12. The atonement is a doctrine of healing.
  
• 3. Never understand personal revelation. ANSWER: Ask the Lord to teach how YOU receive revelation. (Need to learn the language!)
• Nothing today is capturing Heavenly Father off guard! (ex. October 1998 Conference address - President Hinckley prophesied of the financial crisis)
• The Lord wants us here now! He knew we'd be here.

KIM NELSON

• "Bless me to love my new life." Story about women who was abandoned by her husband, in severe pain do to a medication condition, and was trying to raise 2 young childen.
• We have the Savior (not a coach, cheerleader, etc) because Heavenly Father KNEW we would fall. (bicycle example)
• If you saw a mother treating your daughter the way you treat yourself, would you be ok with it? *You are a Heavenly Daughter- treat yourself like it!
• Ask yourself, What would my daughter need right now?

S. MICHAEL WILCOX

• Obedience is NOT perfection. Obedience is trying.
• Spoke on the Personality of Jesus-
  
• We can have his assurance of his acceptance. (ex. reading New Testament vs. reading the Book of Mormon)
• Sensitivity- He sees the beauty underneath
• Imitation is the highest form of worship. In time we can be like our Heavenly Father.

DEANNE FLYNN

• Parenting is hard!
• Parenting is the greatest challenge in the world as it never ends. (President Faust)
• A Busy Kid DOES NOT equal a Good Mom.
• A Busy Woman DOES NOT equal a Righteous Woman.
• To simplify their lives, had her kids choose 2 things outside of church to participate in.
• "You are magnificent" - Jeffrey R. Holland
• Alma 34:32 TIME - Time should be used to prepare to meet God.
• Can't wait for someday, because someday may never come.
• Heavenly Father will ask if we loved him, not if we have a star basketball player.
• Mothers who KNOW do less. -Conference talk by Julie Beck
• Choose to Thrive! Regular FHE and scripture study.

KRIS BELCHER

• Cancer returned after 30 years because of radiation as an infant. Now blind.
• "Let not your heart be troubled." In hard times turn to Christ.
• 1. Grace
• 2. Hope in the Savior
• 3. Laugh - she had to learn to laugh again
• Bad things will happen - need to remember to rely on the Savior.
• Problems don't always come because of sin.