Sunday, March 16, 2014

          Today’s Stake Conference was a broadcast from Salt Lake.  Chairs were packed into every conceivable space in the chapel, cultural hall, and over-flow rooms, including chairs in the aisles.  People actually came early and were rewarded with a slideshow of the Open House and Cultural Events from last year’s opening of this temple.  The dedication was just a year ago, March 17, and happened on the day that Glade and I spoke in Sacrament Meeting prior to leaving for Honduras—also his birthday J 

          The choir was scheduled to practice—its one and only practice for this meeting—at 9:00 a.m.  The choir director and I and a couple of members watched and waited, but no choir arrived.  About 9:40 I started playing prelude.   Just before 10:00 a.m. a dozen Primary kids came to the stand to sing their sweet special number, and choir members randomly filled in the seats behind them and made ready to sing.  There was no practice, so we just “winged” it and it was great.  The choir director is awesome, easy to follow, and all’s well that ends well!  Glade said the people here will live longer because they are so casual about many things and don’t stress over things like we do at home.

          Cheers came today by way of success in solving a computer issue all on my own J!!  I just started searching and paying attention to options and was led to a tutorial on Windows 7 that listed a topic I thought might be related!  And it was!  A few more clicks and the answer came up right in front of me with instructions and a visual!  Oh Happy Day!!  I just had to give myself a little pat on the back since that doesn’t happen very often.

          We walked outside tonight after dark and watched a huge, bright yellow moon climb up over the eastern mountains and light up the clouds.  I suddenly thought that it is the same bright yellow moon that you-all see (at some point in time) where you live as well.  It somehow shortened the distance and lessened the chasm that separates us.

          It’s a warm breezy 81 degrees and partly cloudy.  (I think it is actually a little cooler up here on our hill than down in the city—it doesn’t feel like 81 but more like 71.)