General Conference Weekend

Wow, general conference was great this weekend. There were lots of great speakers and wonderful words spoken from that pulpit up there in the conference center. It was interesting to watch conference when the new prophet is called into presidency. That will probably be something I only witness twice in a lifetime.

I decided to watch conference at home on Saturday, and it might have been a bad idea. It was Judd and Josh and I for the first session, and I think we all might have gotten too comfortable at one time or another. It was a good session though, even though I might have seeped in and out of consciousness.

I watched the second session at home as well, and then for the priesthood session I was able to go with John Busch inside of the Conference Center. That was a really good priesthood session. I really enjoy President Monson's personality, and his goofyness. You should have heard how loud that Conference Center got when he wiggled his ears. Wow. It was interesting, one of the conductors that was directing the music was actually in institute director that John and I had back in the student singles wards when we worked up in downtown Seattle on our missions. That was funny to see him up there on the big screen.

The Sunday conference sessions were great. I watched again the morning session at my house, and then for the second one, Emma Dille came up to have lunch with me, and then we went to the visitor's center on Temple Square to watch the last session. I enjoyed a lot of talks from that one. Jeffrey R. Holland's talk was great. He never backs down from being bold, and he always tells it how it is. He just told the world the important things about our church that makes us unique, and what makes us the true church.

I love to hear the conviction in the voices of the apostles. All of them have such a love for the Savior, and being able to listen and hear them speak really does give me strength. They truly are lead by God.

Emma and I walked around temple square for a while, and took some pictures on temple square. She had never been in the tabernacle, which was pretty amazing to me. She really liked it though, and I will take her to Music and the Spoken Word next Sunday, because she will really like it. Plus, it will be my last Sunday here in Utah for a while.

After the last session Emma just caught the Trax back to Sandy, and I walked around for a bit. I walked past some protesters like usual, they are always out there. This highly decorated military officer walked over to the protestors and started yelling at them, which definitely wasn't a good idea. I think it's dumb when people talk to those protesters at all. It's not going to get them anywhere, and they should just not do it and ignore them. They should not even be recognized, that's what they want you to do.

I did find a few interesting things around the protesters though. I found a man playing the bagpipes to drown out the protesters, and I also found a little happy man running around dancing with a smiley-face sign. I'm not sure exactly why he was doing it, but he was having a fun time at it. He was taking pictures of himself with others and the sign, and other wacky things. There's a lot of interesting people who come out for conference.