I love Conference!

The two weekends a year that Conference is on are the two most wonderful weekends of the year. I spent most of my childhood and teenage years hating that time. It meant sitting for HOURs bored to tears. Well, when I got married and started my own family I sat down to watch conference and found that it wasn't boring at all. In fact it rejuvenated my spirit and made it easier to go ahead with all that was going on in my life. I learned to love the General Authorities and their love for us. I learned that I ALWAYS get some counsel that I have been needing.
It seems that when you have to work hard to have something, then it becomes even more dear to you. These past few years with sports events being in the way a lot of the time and preventing my watching on Saturday, I yearned to be able to have my time again. Well, now that the sports part of my life is over, I got to watch ALL four sessions without any interruption. And not only that, but the great invention, the Digital Video Recorder, it is even better. If I want to catch something I missed or my mind wanders a little, I just hit rewind and go back and get it. I LOVE IT!
This past Conference was awesome. I had Kristi and Dalley here and they watched the first session with me. Dalley was an angel, by the way, and slept through it all. Then Shawn and Stina came for the second session. It was Shawn's birthday (Kristi's was the day before), so we took him, Kristi, and everybody else out to dinner at Windmill. The men were all dressed up to go to the Priesthood Session afterward. It rained really hard as we went to get in our car. However, it was kind of sad because the men got in to the church, sat down, the prayer was said and the opening prayer give, and then the power went off. So they didn't get to see that session.
Of course Sunday was just as wonderful. Then everybody went home. I felt totally rejuvenated and ready for the next six months. (I can hardly wait for April to come, though)