Multi-Stake Singles Conference, Busy Sabbath

McKay Events Center Relief Society, speakers were Susan & John Tanner--Conference theme, "Prepare every needful thing."
My notes from the conference were an outline of Sister Tanner's talk were about how since she was released in April, she was catching up on things that were put aside for a while and had closets, food storage, and re-reading the Book of Mormon. She applied the theme to herself personally and passed the torch to us, the audience and asked, "Are you prepared to meet God?" She quoted Alma 5. Her list included cleansing the inner vessel. "Have you received HIS image on your countenance?" that is always a good scripture to begin to ask as Alma does, "are you stripped of pride?" She went on from there and gave an excellent, well prepared talk. I liked the points she made and quoted Neal A. Maxwell, "Charity is a important to have it as the ordinance of baptism." Charity is true forgiveness. She told a story about a family in her neighborhood who showed true charity in a time that could have really been a challenge to anyone and justifiably upset at the outcome. She read a thank you note from someone at the end of her story. This is a synopsis. A young couple were sealed in the temple on a Thursday morning and had the day's festivities well thought out and planned ahead. The temple sealing was simple beautiful, the brides mother was deeply touched by the ceremony and the spirit they felt as a family that day in the temple earlier. The bride's mother had carefully planned every detail for her daughter's reception at their home.

The time came and went for the caterer to arrive and no one showed up when the reception had begun. They left messages at the caterers home as well. Then, a few of the neighbors, (Relief Society sisters) pulled together tables, and table cloths, table decorations, punch and cookies etc. in short order. Still no word from the caterer. The ladies in the ward all pitched in and helped make a difficult situation better at the last minute.

Then, just as the last guests were leaving in comes the caterer so embarrassed and apologetic for not having been there when she was supposed to be. She had accidentally written the date of the wedding for the next day (Friday)instead of the day it actually was on Thursday. The bride's mother, put her arms around the woman, and told her not to worry about the mistake. She said they had such a beautiful day in the temple and felt such great love fill them that it did not matter that she had forgotten. The mother had such Christ like love remain with her throughout that day, that she didn't give it any anxiety and was filled with the spirit of forgiveness.

Now that is true charity! If I didn't write anything else here in my blog entry today of what was said the rest of the day it would be just fine.
Brother Tanner spoke also, but I will not take any more space here of what was said.

Sacrament Meeting speaker was Kent Worthen, the former dean of the BYU J. Rueben Clark Law School. He now is an assistant to President Samuelson.

I had dinner with the Ks. Chimichangas, rice & Guacamole. Mmmmmmmm. It was great to be able to help Lori and Kris make the chimis. We had a good time.

Fireside speaker was Daniel K. Judd. He is Ancient Scripture professor at BYU. He also had a great talk. I enjoyed myself and got to get acquainted with a lot of new people. I look forward to perhaps getting to know some of them better.

I know there are not a lot of these kinds of events but once a year. Nevertheless my spirit was filled to overflowing, my cup runneth over. I had a blessed sabbath.

Sacrament was passed in the McKay events center, and there were twelve men who stood sat at the table, one blessed it and they all broke the bread and blessed and passed the water. It was very well organized along with the prayer over the sacrament were very meaningful. I had a spiritual experience and witnessed the organization sacrament time there that day. We took no longer, in fact less time to pass the sacrament than at a regular meeting. The elders did a great job and were very efficient to make sure it was done well.

For the sake of keeping this blog short; I didn't want to be long winded today and lose all of you while you fell asleep reading a long laborious blog entry.