Saturday and Sunday, we attended our Church’s general conference. Every six months (1st weekend in April and 1st weekend in October) we attend (or watch on TV) 8-10 hours’ worth of uplifting, spiritual guidance from our Church leaders, intermingled with music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The Conference Center in Salt Lake City holds 22,000 people…and they fill every seat. 13 million or so others watch (if they choose) via satellite, cable, the Internet, etc. It is always a spiritual feast.
The End...not really...haha!
With SO many people milling about downtown SLC, the logistics can be overwhelming. Add the rain that was coming down this conference weekend, and it was downright frustrating. But, once inside, it is all worth the trouble.
Stalwarts braving the rain with no umbrellas
Cliff and I attended the morning session together, and all 6 of us attended the afternoon session. Coree, Jake and I walked the mall while Cliff, Troy and Patrick attended the Saturday evening Priesthood session, for men and boys age 12 and up. Afterward, they met us at our favorite…Barnes & Noble. (I sure wish we had one in the Imperial Valley…but we don’t have enough college graduates here to meet their demographic.)
This is after Priesthood session and the mall Saturday night. The kids would run up the stairs to beat the elevator, and then pretend to have fallen asleep while having to wait so long for us. It never got old.
After all the hassle we had on Saturday with parking, standing in the rain and such, Cliff and I decided to leave the kids at the hotel Sunday to watch conference on TV, while we went to both sessions and stayed at the Conference Center in between. We enjoyed checking out all the paintings and sculptures in the halls upstairs.
That's a waterfall behind Cliff...it wasn't really raining that hard. That's me in the hall of the prophets. I'm standing right between David O. McKay and Spencer W. Kimball. See the temple in the background? I've never been inside the SLC temple...we're always too busy when we're here...maybe next year?
Sunday night, we drove up to Ogden to have dinner with Grandpa Jim, Grandma Garrie and Erin, and then Cliff and I left the kids up there to visit with them while we headed back to SLC for 2 more days of Chaplains’ Conference. They had a little adventure of their own on Monday. Stay tuned...
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The SLC Temple is of course worth the trip alone. I have only been inside once...when Dan and I got to fly to SLC to pick up a new police car. His chief was gracious enough to let me go with and we "took our time" getting back over the weekend. It was a wonderful experience. Just the history of sitting in those rooms knowing how long ago it was built and all of the great and glorious things that have been revealed in that building! Amazing.
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