Slightly different conference experience

 My Conference experience was a little unusual today.  

We almost always go to the Stake Center and enjoy conference on TV in the multi-purpose room.  We being my household, David and Teresa, Ruth's family, and Benjamin's little family.  The little kids play more or less quietly in the back and the older kids usually take notes or sit and do conference related activities or sometimes play with their younger sibs.  Ruth has small candies which she pays to the kids if they show her conference notes for each speaker - little kids do pictures of something the speaker talked about.  During the conference break we share lunch with the full-time missionaries - often 2 dozen or so missionaries.

Today there was a problem getting the satellite transmission.  No kidding!  Our satelitte dish is gone! Stolen?!  Eventually both the building and people in our room  got confernce via the internet and computers.  We listened through the building's sound from the chapel because it was  better, but we watched on TV through either Teresa's phone or a computer or both.  Some individuals watched on their own computer screen.  The fun part was that most of the time, the visual and the sound were out of sync.  Still we wanted the visual.  There were amusing moments.

When we started lunch, there were only TWO missionaries. A bit of  let  down after all the work and money we spent getting lunch together.  We surmized that missionaries who had come to the building earilier left while the tech guys were trying to figure out how to get conference without the satellite.  Eventually more missionaries came for lunch.  I think we had 8 which is not too bad.  There will probably be more missionaries Sunday.

Conference itself, was as usual, a feast, even though I kept nodding off.  Heavy emphasis on missions and missionary work.  Instead of taking notes, I worked on crocheting bunny hats for premies.  River Park Ward (Marcia RS president) asked Brighton  (her sister Nila, RS counselor) to help with their service project.  They need the hats by the end of the week.   For sometimes amusing, sometimes insightful, and somewhat random notes see Thus We See - Formerly Middle Aged Mormon Man.   Stay tuned to Thus We See for deeper, more thoughtful notes and comments later.