Stake Conference

Last weekend we had stake conference. Many good and insightful speakers, full of spirit and enlightenment, I soaked it in. One thought I wanted to share:

The speaker was speaking of serving a mission in the Philippines islands and what the members of the church. Some people were SO Poor, it was surprising how they lived. Often they would eat rice, that was what they most often ate, for every meal. Sometimes they would have a little extra money, they would buy a vegetable to put on the rice. One day a father of a large family caught a fish. He sat the fish on the table. His children went to touch, admiring and desiring to eat it. He stopped them, needing to save the fish for dinner.

Pointing to their rice, he said, "Look at the fish, Eat a bit of rice... Look at the fish, Eat a bit of rice!"

In our lives, we desire to have it all! He was telling us, that we can look at something we want, and only take what we need... look at something we want and only spend what we need. It is a idea I have thought about the last few days. It takes a humble person to be able to desire something but resist it at the same time.