Listening to Conference

I so enjoyed Conference last weekend. I'm glad I took notes and I am so looking forward to the Ensign with all the conference talks so I can read and ponder them.  I felt like a lot of the talks were just for me. The speakers are so inspired.  I really was moved by Elder Scott's talk when he talked about his wife and his child that had died. I remember thinking as I listened to Elder Scott that I would never again complain about being up in the night with throwing up kids.  Conference helps me to feel gratitude for all my blessings. It helps me to make new goals and a new resolve to do better.  A week before Conference, Scott and I decided that we needed to have family scriptures study and family prayer at 5:30 a.m. before he goes to work.  We just haven't been as consistent as we have wanted to be because Scott is at work all day and at school at night and it has been hard for me alone to get the kids together to do it.  So this was our solution.  We have been doing this for a little over a week now and I must say that it has been so hard to get up so early.  But, I know it will pay off.  And I feel like I'm taking control and that this is war against Satan who is trying so very hard right now to tear up our family.  I know that Satan is trying to destroy a lot of families in general but lately, I have been able to feel it in our family and we are fighting back!  We have been more vigilant in our FHE's and I have been trying to be more consistent in my personal prayer and scripture study.  It does get a little discouraging though when we have experiences like we did yesterday.  Kael had a Court of Honor and although I knew it would be hard to bring all my boys, I wanted to support Kael as a family. He didn't get any awards because he is so close to getting his Eagle...he is getting the rest of his recommendation letters and he is almost done with all the paperwork.  Anyway, it was hard to wrestle my little boys, especially 2-year-old Ammon who during the closing prayer was trying to lift my eyelids up and was saying, "Wake up, mom!" But we made it through.  We enjoyed refreshments afterward and Aidan was no where to be found when I was ready to go.  He was in the gym playing ball but I didn't know that so I was chasing the two little boys home trying to keep them out of the street and I had asked Kalli to tell Aidan to come home. Well, instead she dragged him home and the whole neighborhood probably hear the screaming.  Kael said that some of his YM friends told him, "Hey, kael did you know that your little sister is beating up your brother." How embarrassing.  I know Kalli was doing the best she could but I told her next time to just come home and get me and I would get him. Just what I need everyone in public to know that we are working on treating each better in our family (and not doing a very good job yet).   All we can do is just keep trying to better everyday.  I am so grateful for the encouragement and new resolve I feel every time I hear our Church leaders at conference.