My Talk
Posted in Family by: AlisaWell, yesterday went really well. I actually enjoy giving talks and teaching. I feel so good when I’m done it’s totally worth all the work up to it. This is going to be a short post. I just thought since I don’t share a great deal of my spiritual side I’d drop a note. The meeting yesterday was about obedience. I was asked to pick two principles of obedience and speak on them. I chose being prepared (saving money, food storage) and Prop 8. For those of you who don’t know what Prop 8 is I’m going to do a post on it soon but the gist is to amend the California State Constitution to state that “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” I chose these two subjects because the Spirit prompted me and I am really struggling with them. What better way to gain a testimony of a subject than to study and pray about it? This ended up being a fabulous learning experience for me.
Just in case those family members that live far away are curious as to what I said here’s my talk. Be warned it’s sloppy and I don’t have any of the quotes cited. I didn’t end up using parts of it because of time but this is the information I started out with. It’s a Word document (I’ve never done this before so I hope it works) talk
September 15th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Fabulous talk, Alisa! I read it all and really liked it! I was so bummed that I had to miss it yesterday. And even more bummed that I missed seeing you wear your new outfit!
Dang! Great job!!!!!!!
September 16th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Amen sweetie. Thanks for your helping me to feel more comfortable doing the calling and giving me some “talking tips”. I too was nervous about putting myself out there, even to perfect strangers. Sometimes it’s harder to be obedient to what we think “are the little things”. But then I came across people who had never heard of Prop. 8. And my preconceived notions of how people would vote based on age or voter status changed. I had an 80 year old tell me she was against it and a 24 year old saying definitely for it. And most of the people who didn’t know what Prop. 8 was let me take a moment to explain. And most of them after hearing about it said they were defintely going to vote yes. How many of them would’ve maybe voted no out of confusion or just left it blank if they had not had someone call to give them a one minute explanation. Either way it goes at voting time, at least we know we gave it a good try and did our part however big or little.