The speakers were awesome and were all in alignment with each other in what they taught. It just went hand in hand with the other speakers. One speaker got me thinking about how I judge and why I let something she said try to offend me. I quickly worked through the "why's" and moved on and enjoyed her presentation and seriously felt a love and connection for her. I thanked her after and she gave me a nice hug. One thing I thought was "We All Rock Our Journey". Every one of us is doing our absolute best and we are all on such different journey's. There really shouldn't be any negative judgement. I was able to really see the greatness in these people and they saw it in me. We shared the "greatness I see in you" a lot.
I demonstrated breaking the arrow with my neck by letting go of a believe that was holding me back and owning a new belief. The last day when we broke boards my experience wasn't as good. I couldn't break my board and I was seriously bugged by it. The first time I hit my board I was shocked that it hadn't broke. I stood there in unbelief and let some negative thoughts flood my mind. I realized that the reason I couldn't break my board was because I didn't believe the new belief I was saying. I couldn't lie and I couldn't break my board. I had so many people encouraging me and trying to help me but I was a mess and could not get rid of the negative in my head. It was painful...seriously my soul hurt as well as my poor hand. I learned a lot from that experience and so in reality it was a good experience. I didn't want to take home my unbroken board though and when I went over to talk to some kids that had came I got some help. I really felt like I was inspired to go talk to those kids and let them know that I was happy to have met them. One of the boys had let me lay my head on his tummy during "laughing yoga" but the other kid I hadn't talked to at all. He was the one that was inspired to tell me a few things. He asked me if I had heard of Elder Bednar's talk on faith. Faith to be Healed and Faith Not to be Healed. Something in that comment struck me and more things went through my head. I asked this kid if he would help me break my board. Of course he wanted to help. TJ got out some gloves and David (the kid) told me that I had to state my new belief and mean it. I said it a few times trying to really feel and believe it. David hit the board and nothing happened. In a way I was glad since I had such a hard time. Then he said "Dawn, you have to believe it...now say it like you believe it." I raised my voice stating my belief and he said "No..louder". I repeated it a few more times, increasing my volume and feeling the belief and convection as I did. This time the board broke and I felt the same wonderful feeling when I had broke my board in the previous conference I had participated in. David told me it was my belief that had broke the board and I believe he is right. But because I had help it made me think about life and how we do need "friends" to help us get through some hard times at times. I'm still thinking about my board and the many lessons it has and is teaching me. (I wasn't suppose to break my board)
