Amongest one of the Great Ones

As I walked into the chapel tonight, I saw Elder Jeffrey R. Holland on the stand talking with someone, I immediately felt the spirit and I started to cry. Words cant describe the feeling that I had seeing and hearing his words Saturday night and Sunday morning. He radiates Christ's love for each of us. I felt like I could take on the world when he spoke of trials and heartaches that we all have in our lives. No matter how small or large our trails are, Christ is with us and will fix it all. Endure and know that we are loved and he is closer than we can ever imagine. Elder Holland said, It's not because of our unrighteousness that we have trails, its because of our righteousness that he will see us through. I love what he said next; Heavenly Father loves broken things so he can fix them. Going to him when we are "broken" makes us feel better, he fixes us!

At the end of the Sunday morning session, Elder Holland ended the conference by giving everyone a blessing. He told us this blessing is like he was putting his hands on each of our heads. Just like the crowds gathered for Jesus Christ, he also gave a blessing to all in this manner. He blessed us that we would endure to the end, that our trails would be short, to know of the Saviors love for us and to "stay in the boat when there is a storm."

Mark 4:35-41

And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the multitudes, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And it was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow, and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith? And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, what manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

What an honor it was to be in his presence. Scott asked me if I would like to stand in line to shake his hand. I started to cry and I couldn't stop, I composed myself and said I wouldn't know what to say, I would just start to cry.

Sunday morning we had the honor to shake Elder Jeffrey R.Hollands hand. McKenzie was glowing after the hand shake. Elder Holland said Porter looked like a missionary and he could send him off today to Mongolia. I was next in line and like I said previous, nothing came out of my mouth but tears of joy. I whispered thank you and he then touched my check.

As we drove home I noticed that Scott was wiping his eyes. Tears were running down his face as he said to me, "I am not ready for Porter to go on a mission yet." We know we have time; but time sure goes fast.

I have felt the Holy Ghost with we since I have seen and heard from Elder Holland and I love this feeling. I hope thought my life I can remember the way this has felt. I feel closer to my Heavenly Father more than ever before.

I am thankful for this once in a life time opportunity to see and hear from him. I thought for a moment, if I am acting like this being in the presence of Elder Holland who is a 12 Apostle, how is it going to be when Christ returns and we are all in the Saviors view?

I will never forget this!