My Weekly General Conference….2

Wow!  I love studying this way!  Ok, here’s how I did it last week that I feel was very successful.  I started the week watching the video.  I then printed off a text version that I carried around with me and read in carpool, when I had a break at home, etc.  Before reading each day, I prayed about the topic.  I then used a different pen or pencil to highlight the things that struck me and I wrote thoughts and feelings in the margins.  At the end of the week I again watched the video and this time highlighted my text version with the new things that struck me as I noticed the points where the speakers voice emphasized a certain something.  I wish I could now spend another whole week practicing what I learned as there were things that I figured out at week’s end that I hadn’t understood in the beginning.  But, I’m on to the next one and have already noticed that the last talk has helped me to understand this one more!  I love this!

Again, Saturday morning session:

Helping Others Recognize the Whisperings of the Spirit

by Vicki F. Matsumori

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Quote:

• "The scriptures and the prophets teach what this constant companionship feels like...My favorite description...comes from an eight-year-old boy who had just received the Holy Ghost. He said, “It felt like sunshine.”

  —Vicki F. Matsumori

Facts:

1.  Sister Vicki Fujii Matsumori went to Primary even before she was a member of the Church. Her parents wanted her to attend a church when she was a child, and their home in Murray, Utah, was close to a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“I always knew it was true,” says Sister Matsumori. When she learned about tithing, she wanted to pay it. When she learned about fasting, she wanted to fast. When she was about to turn eight, she wanted to be baptized.

However, when she asked for permission to be baptized, her parents, George Yasuyuki Fujii and Yoshie Matsumoto Fujii, told her they wanted her to know more about the church she was joining. Her father knew a little about the Church and told her that she should learn the Articles of Faith before the bishop interviewed her for baptism. So she did.

The bishop did not ask her to recite any of them, but Sister Matsumori still treasures the gospel knowledge she gained while she was in Primary.

Her parents continued to support her and her younger sister in Church attendance, and they eventually joined the Church when Sister Matsumori was in high school.

Sister Matsumori was born on December 15, 1950, in Murray, Utah. She attended Granite High School and later graduated from the University of Utah with a BA in journalism and English in 1973. She also earned her teaching certificate and went on to teach junior high school and to be an educator at other schools as well.

On June 6, 1973, she married James Matsumori in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of two girls and one boy. She says her calling as mother is the calling that best prepared her for her calling as second counselor in the Primary general presidency. Other callings that have helped her prepare include Primary teacher, ward Primary president, and Cub Scout leader. She also served on the Primary general board for more than five years. 

(http://www.josephsmith.net/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f318118dd536c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=78348fbe352fe010VgnVCM100000176f620a____&hideNav=1)

2.  At the April 2005 church general conference, Matsumori was accepted by the church as the second counselor of Cheryl C. Lant in the general presidency of the Primary. Prior to her call into the general presidency, Matsumori was a member of the general Primary board for five years and was a frequent contributor to the Friend magazine.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_F._Matsumori)