Conference Weekend

We flew up to Utah for the weekend to go to General Conference- it was a great time. Whitney came with us, Dan was already there for ground school so Chels flew up from Arizona, and Lizzy came up from Provo. The only one missing was Mandy, but with the baby almost here she had to miss it- we really missed her!! There's so much to tell about it, so I'll just post today about going to conference. We only had 3 tickets to the Sunday morning session so Lizzy was going to stand in line to see if she could get in. We left the hotel at 7:15 worried that she wouldn't get in- TRAXS never came so we walked all the way from The Grand to the Conference Center- IN HEELS! Lynn went to the door with her while Whit and I were still walking and the nice guy he talked to let us have one more ticket. It was a good thing because there were no extra tickets anywhere- someone told us people had been scalping tickets for money at Temple Square on Saturday! It was wonderful to be there when President Hinkley walked in and everyone stood in total silence. He seemed so healthy and his talk had some great points. I loved Elder Pace's talk and the sister from Primary gave such a sweet talk that I really related to. We sat right by our stake president and one of his counselors and our old Laurel advisor who moved to Iowa was there so that was fun. When we left the conference center I thought we would see more protesters but there were only a few. I loved when I saw that lining both sides of the sidewalk as you enter Temple Square young adults had lined up and were singing hymns to keep your focus off what people were shouting and to help you keep the spirit from the meeting. I would love to start the tradition of going to conference as a family every other year or maybe taking the grandchildren when they turn 8- we'll have to work on that.