General Conference

Today, I got to go to General Conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, obviously. It was really cool and a neat opportunity that I'm glad I got. The only problem was that it was morning conference, and I had to be over at Kendal's house at 7 am and I went to bed at like 11:45 pm and so I didn't get much sleep. So I ended up sleeping through the beginning part of Conference. What was really weird was that I would be awake when the speaker started, fall asleep through the talk, then wake up when they ended and then fall asleep once the next speaker started. So I just heard the beginning remarks of President Eyring and the beginning remarks of the new apostle, Elder Cook. I ended up waking up for good in the middle of the General Relief Society President's talk, which was good.

One thing that I really liked was at the beginning, everybody was talking and being a little noisy, but then everybody stood up and it was instantly quiet. President Hinckley had walked into the room, I could tell the instant I came in because I could just feel his presence from where I was, and I was on the top balcony in the far corner, oh it was absolutely amazing! My favorite talk, I think was Elder Bednar's talk, it was really good. One thing I liked was how he said, "You can have clean hands but not have a pure heart" and how he explained the way to have both clean hands and pure heart. It was really good, and I liked when President Hinckley got up to speak at the very end of the morning conference, it was really good; even though it was a repeat talk, but who can know when it was, it was one out of 200 something talks he's given. It was really funny how he started it, I was glad that I got to be there.

Kendal drove both of us to Salt Lake and we parked her car in front of an old missionary friend's house, I guess she met him at the end of his mission, his name was Jeff Christianson, I think, so his mom took us within walking distance of the Conference Center, and then we met up with one of her old companions, and her name was Melissa Dredge, or something like that, so I kind of felt like an outsider, as I was the youngest and had never been on a mission, but they were kind enough to include me in their conversations and explain things to me, so I had fun. After Conference, we split from Melissa, and Jeff's sister came and picked us up a little bit aways from the Conference Center, then Kendal and I drove home.

On the drive home, it was absolutely gorgeous!!! The trees were so beautiful with the changing seasons, I haven't seen such vivid colors on trees before, it was absolutely breathtaking!
This is a pic of the mountains with snow and the red trees.


Oh, and another thing I just remembered, Kendal and I had really good luck today. As we were driving this morning, we were in the horrible area where they are doing construction and there are barriers on both sides of the road. This stupid person had gotten a flat tire, and so instead of going a couple more feet to a place where he could pull off the interstate, he stopped in the middle of the interstate and changed his tire. Kendal was paying attention and so was able to turn around him, another truck wasn't so lucky, we were both commenting on the stupid person and we looked back and a truck had seen the people too late and had swerved to miss them and had crashed into the barrier in the fast lane, blocking all traffic, oh my gosh were we lucky, we had only cleared that by 10 seconds when it had happened. We made it to Salt Lake in like an hour and fifteen minutes, which isn't too bad, then we continued to have good luck throughout the rest of the day. When we went to the bathroom, there was no line, when we got out, like 1-2 minutes later, there was a huge line, it was crazy! Then we got home in about an hour and fifteen minutes again. It was crazy!