General Conference Recap

My kids did okay watching conference. I tried to be prepared all weekend, with some activities for them and food preparation. We let them picnic in front of the tv as a special occasion. They seemed to like that. The activities were short lived, and food eaten quickly. We tried a treat bowl this time, if they heard words like: temple, faith, family, prophet, scriptures, etc. They could eat something from the treatbowl. (We used kettle flavored popcorn, and gummy bears) This worked fairly well. After awhile though, they became noisy, crazy, ran outside, and reached boredom quickly.

Taking the whole weekend in perspective, though, I think they learned we value general conference and we listen when the prophet and church leaders speak. I felt I was able to listen to most of the talks, and I think the children had fun hanging out as a family over the weekend.

Things I remember about conf:

• Provident Living
• The Pride Cycle
• President Monson requesting we pray for him, Sun pm session.
• An overall sense for me to be cheerful, happier, joyful even amongst times we live in.
• Getting to the temple, making it a prayerful, regular, sacred part of my life -Elder Bednar
• Missionary Work
• Elder Holland's talk about the Savior's last week, his loneliness
• Elder Scott, sharing about the loss of his wife, and especially the stories of losing his two young children
• Pres. Monson's story of the young mother with 4 children, all my 4 children's ages. Her long, cold winter's walk, where death seemed to be her only companion. He gave that talk, Sun. a.m.