October Conference Weekend (6)

This weekend was once again SO BUSY! It went like this:

FRIDAY

We started off the weekend with a home football game against Utah State University. We lost, but I'm basically certain that's because we lost our quarter back to a broken leg during the game and we lost a few other players. Otherwise we'd have beat them blindfolded. Go Cougars!

Me, Meg, Jess, and Trent. 

Who starts a football game at 8:15pm? This school. Seriously! We finally got in after midnight and then Nancy, Meg, Jess, and I all slept in mine and Jess' room. Nancy slept in my bed and Meg slept in Jessica's. It was cramped but we enjoyed being together! I have the funniest, quirkiest roommates!

Crazy scenes in room 2109.

SATURDAY

We got up bright and early and traveled to Salt Lake City in Nancy's sister's car. Nancy has it for the next month. We had to get to SLC by 10am so we could watch the first session of conference in Meg's house. That's where Meg is from. We met her super cute family! They welcomed all of us and fed us good food. We got lots of hugs and dessert. 

 Ready for our mini road trip

 We had to stop at McD's...it's a 45 minute drive after

all...Meg loves life.

We arrived at Meg's safe and happy with one huge suitcase

and lots of clothes!

We watched the first session and then got into our Sunday best so that we could attend the second session of General Conference in person! Nancy's dad managed to get the four of us tickets. When you consider that there are 15,000,000 Mormons in the world, being 4 out of 22,000 people in the conference centre was so amazing! And we got to go to two sessions. Blessed and a half.

 Our tickets!

 We got to sit on the very top balcony. We could see everything!

Thanks Nancy for being our photographer!

After conference we went back to the car and got changed. Then we went shopping in City Creek Mall. It was pay day on Friday so I bought a jacket...then had buyer's remorse...so now I don't have a jacket anymore but I do have an extra $75! We went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner! It was so good! Meg and I got pasta, Nancy and Jess got steak. Then we shared a cheesecake. SO GOOD.

SUNDAY 

Round two. We watched the 10am-12pm session at Meg's just like on Saturday, and we also ate a great breakfast and lunch thanks to Sister Kelly. Then Brother Kelly dropped us off for our 2pm-4pm session. We had so much fun again. I just loved being there with my girls.

 Outside the conference centre

 Outside the SLC Temple. It's like a castle, it's that beautiful.

Inside the conference centre, after conference. That's 

an organ in the background!

That night we had a yum dinner. Home cooked food is just impossible to beat. We left to go back home at about 6:30pm. It was surprisingly nice to go back home. Provo has become familiar to me now. I also know what the I-15 is. I feel like I'm going up in the world. Such an adult: directing Nancy to conference, knowing where East is, counting out American change correctly, getting paid. Ah dear.

When we got home we had to get our washing in the machine and tidy up, getting ready for the week ahead. I attended ward prayer and then totally messed up my sleep pattern by staying up late talking to Jeremy from my ward and Alex who is a South African dude brought here to play rugby. Because South Africans are just the best at everything. Especially rugby and blogs.

Conference was such an amazing experience. We stood when the prophet walked in and it was so quiet. It was great being surrounded by so many people who shared your beliefs. I loved knowing I was in the same room as the Prophet of God. It is just something else entirely. I do prefer watching the TV and seeing their faces up close but I love the music and being there right when they are talking. My favourite talk was by Elder Scott. My roommates and I all loved it. When we were walking out, I told them what thoughts I'd had based on his talk. It was amazing because they all had the same thoughts! Jess nearly pounced on me in excitement when I told her my ideas because she was about to share the same ones!

So here is our plan to try follow the prophet's counsel:

• Attend FHE (well...in our case it's Ward Home Evening, not Family!)
• Have room prayer (since we can't have family prayer we are going to pray together)
• Go to the temple every Thursday (or at least once a week)
• Read our personal scriptures
• Watch a talk from any General Conference every night that we can. We are going to start with October 1995 tonight, because that is when Meg was born and she is the oldest!

It's easy to leave out the simple things in life which keep you strong, so that is why we are going to try our best to do this.

I got so lucky with my roommates. We are honest and frank with eachother, so we don't fight, we have a good time together, we laugh and cry and dance and sing. I can't wait to get home at the end of the night to be with them.

Have a great week! To all you LDS peeps out there, make the most of what happened this weekend. It only happens every six months! To all you non-LDS peeps, there was a talk SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU at this conference. It was so random to have a talk addressed to non-members. But it was really funny and true and well explained. Have a look here!

Have a great week!!