We had a wonderful three days of Zone Conference!!

We love these missionaries!!

We had three workshops focusing on Master Planner, Importance of Baptism and Covenants, and Reverence invites Revelation.

A broader view of reverence was so enlightening. It is not all about just sitting quietly with folded arms.

Reverence is about respect and love toward God by expressing gratitude and being obedient.

Reverent behavior includes prayer, scripture study, fasting, and payment of tithes and offerings. It includes having wholesome thoughts, wearing modest clothing, and using clean, wholesome language. The depth of a person’s reverence is evident in his or her choice of music and other entertainment, in the way sacred subjects are spoken of, and in the way the person dresses and acts when attending church services and worshipping in the temple. Reverence also includes making righteous choices even when no one is watching. Reverence for the Lord leads to serving other people and treating them with kindness and respect.

Just as reverence brings an individual closer to God, irreverence suits the purposes of the adversary. Satan will tempt people to follow the world’s trend to more noise, transitory excitement, and contention and to less restraint and quiet dignity.

I realized that I was far too short sided on my view of reverence and reverence only crossed my mind on Sundays in a noisy chapel before and after church.

I am appreciative for lessons and reminders of things we assume we are knowledgeable of and seldom think, perhaps that it doesn’t apply to us personally.

I have a new perspective.