Monday, October 6, 2008

Activities, Reunions, And Conference

My life over the past couple of weeks has been pretty busy. I have not had much time to post about the happenings of my life. I'll start with last Saturday.

This Saturday provided a first for me. I attended an Elders Quorum activity. Only a few girls were invited to help with this activity. It was so much fun. The guys spent the activity making blankets, eating pizza, and watching football. It was a great activity and I hope to get some pictures of that soon to post on here. They made six blankets in a couple of hours. After that activity I went to another activity where more blankets were being made. These blankets are for a community blanket drive. This all led up to the General Relief Society meeting. That was amazing and I got so much out of Pres. Uchtdorf's talk about not being so hard on ourselves.

This Friday, October 3, I was able to travel to American Fork for a mission reunion of the Illinois Chicago North Mission. I met up with a companion, Celia, and we went down together. It was so great to see some of the people there that have had such an influence in my life. My mission president's wife is amazing and I was able to have a very heartfelt talk with her. What an example. We did not get to bed until 3 a.m. that night. It was fun but I am still tired from that.

The next couple days were General Conference. I got so much out of the sessions. I truly enjoyed the first session. The talks given by Elder Wirthlin, Elder Perry, and Elder Uchtdorf really helped me to understand more of what I need to do better in my life including having more hope, finding joy in the journey, simplifying my life, and that we are going to have hard time in our lives. These were just a few of the points that I got out of conference. I would like to know some of the other things that people thought of conference. Please comment below on any of the things that helped you.

3 comments:

The Sayer Family said...

What about your favorite sister spending 4 whole days at home??????

The Sayer Family said...

You already know how much I loved the first session of conference along with you. I also loved Elder Bednar's talk on prayer. There is always room for improvement there for me. There was also a talk on taching. I don't remember who gave it, but it was definately something I needed as I start my new calling. I cannot wait until I can read all the talks more in depth and not have my boys interrupting me.

Whitney said...

Sorry, I did spend Three days with my sister because I was in Utah one of the days. The nephews are cute but it was better seeing my sister. (Is that better Heather?)