Saturday, August 10,
2013
Somehow I have to figure out this
sleep issue—another sleepless night (well-maybe thirty minutes this time) made
for another challenging day. Tonight
just has to be better!!
We left the temple just a little early
so we could be ready when Gina picked us up for the youth conference. It was quite a drive and ended up being in a different
place than where we practiced a couple of days ago. It was a fairly large stake center with lots
of beautiful sunburst windows lining the sides of the chapel and cultural
hall. By the way, the church buildings here
are not carpeted but are finished with tiles.
There were two long rows of ceiling fans running on high during the
meeting.
The practice started at 2:00 but most
of the choir members were late. That
gave me a chance to practice. The
meeting was from 4:00 until 6:00. This
piano was “normal” and of much better quality than I had anticipated so that
was wonderful. The conductor was a
sister I have seen in the temple several times, and recognizing each other
right off made us both comfortable. The
choir consisted of a row of young children and a group of youth and adults. They have sung together before and knew the
songs well. Everything went just great
and it felt so good to accompany again.
I loved it.
Pres. Packer’s son, who is a Seventy,
was the main speaker and he was accompanied by Elder Carlos Amado, who happens
to be a brother to one of the counselors in our temple presidency. There were two other speakers and they all
spoke in Spanish except one who had an interpreter standing at a microphone
next to him. Glade said he did a great
job. The building was packed all the way
to the back with 600-700 youth and leaders and it appeared to be a very successful
conference with most of the talks centered on helping the youth get involved
with family history. This was a regional
youth conference and tomorrow, there will be a stake conference in the same
building.
Hoping and praying for sleep—Good night!!
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