Saturday General Conference

I woke up early this morning to rain, lots of rain lightening, and thunder. I loved it!!! I was pretty sure the games would be cancelled with how hard it was coming down. I went downstairs and sat in a chair by the front room window. I decided to get a book. I perused the shelves and picked up Brimley "Covenental Marriage" and read from pages 271-277 and those totally hit the spot. There must be a willingness between marital partners to talk to each other! We must be exceptional teachers and eager students. I could do better sharing how I feel, but in my defense, a lot of the time I'm trying to figure out how I feel... Anyway, that was all really good, go find my copy if you want to see the parts I underlined and annotated. Good stuff. Then I picked up Simple Abundance. I finished May and then instead of continuing through the summer chapters, I skipped to October so I could read in the proper season (cause she talks a lot about the season and time of the month and day she's on). I loved that too - A line from the Oct 1 entry about burnout! "When nothing satisfies you because you haven't a clue what's wrong or how to fix it. Because everything's wrong. Because something is terribly out of whack: you ." I caught up to Oct 4, and I liked this quote at the beginning of that entry: "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather 

It was a good morning and a good start to General Conference. And it worked our perfectly to have the rain cancel the soccer games. yay. We were all able to stay at home together and listen. The kids were very reverent during the morning session. 

In there defense this was 90 minutes in. But it's no wonder they're struggling to stay awake when they're on the soft couch with pillows and blankets! Come on guys...

I'm sure the early saints who gathered for the Kirtland Temple dedication would be disappointed by what slackers we are. We recently studied how in 1836, Sidney Rigdon gave a two-and-a-half-hour sermon and prayers as part of the dedication, and people were riveted. I wish we had that kind of gospel message endurance. Now let's talk about DANIEL!!! This kid was a star student!!

Sibling sleeping behind him, but he was tallying up each time the Savior was mentioned. He was diligently using the Conference packet that the Primary brought by yesterday. He did a really good job. 

After the morning session, I ran to Walmart to buy a birthday present for Daniel and Peter to take to a neighbor's party at 2:30. And I was annoyed - pretty small lego sets (120 pieces) are $20 freaking dollars. That's crazy. It's like we're back in Chile. And I guess we are... 15 years later, the Death Star lego set that was only $399 online in 2010 is now $999, yay.

I didn't take notes from conference, I just listened. I liked Sister Browning's message on music. I've been thinking we should make that a bigger part of our home after listening to Pres Oak's talk about that in October 1994 (we members in North American need to repent!) I started to review all of President Oaks' conference messages on Monday, with the goal to finish before today. I only got to Oct 2006, but I'll keep listening and see when I finish them. It's been good though and was great prep for me! 

Another one I liked was Sister Dennis' talk from this evening. The story she shared of Orville Rogers and the analogy that that was for each of us on this earth, with our different missions and circumstances, I just thought that was sooo good. I'm excited for more tomorrow. Natalie did a great job playing with Katharine for most of the day - 

We've got little people everywhere, with pillows, blankets, sheets and towels representing the various landscapes and terrain, but we were able to listen to conference, so that's a win. 

Mel and Christian were up here listening with us. After conference we visited, and kids played on the pull up bar that has it's current home in the kitchen pantry. Mel and Lily having a monkey bar fight. 

We told Corey to try a pull up and/or hang, and his knees practically touch the ground!

Time for scriptures, K tuckered out from a good day playing.