Night & Day

I have to admit my Friday night social was SOOOOOO much better than Thursday's. I guess it could only get better, right? Thank goodness. I hadn't really planned to go at all from that first "fun" night, dance. One of my friends who is single encouraged me to go with her since she was down in Utah County anyway. She bought my ticket for the concert that was before the dance.

The concert was delightful. Alex Boye' was the entertainer for the evening and his musical group. He sings in the Tabernacle choir as well. He put on a great show and everyone in attendance loved it!

He bore his testimony of the church and told us his missionary conversion. He had such hardships from the age of 16 as a young convert in England and was practically an orphan upon joining the church. He is also black but born in London, England. He speaks like an Englishman too.

My heart was touched by his spiritual strength and made me realized how blessed I am and was being a new convert. You name it and he went through it. He was abandoned by his uncle whom he lived with, and was homeless when he realized what he had in being a member of the church. He said he found out that when you join the church things don't go great or smoothly. He learned the hard way. He was well past thirty when he married his wife, who is younger, American and Caucasian.

I was inspired by the things he said and was very humbled by his testimony and his dependence on God, and the Savior. It was an incredible evening to remember as he told his story. His bio that was written up in our program told how he was challenged by his Elder's quorum president to hand out a Book of Mormon to someone and report back the next week.

He went to an event where Queen Elizabeth was and got close enough to Prince Charles to gave him the Book of Mormon. The press were all watching and they got it on film as it was broadcast on the evening news the same day.

The Elders quorum president at first didn't believe Alex that he had handed out a Book of Mormon to the prince. He thought Alex was teasing, then to his amazement on the late news he saw Alex giving the Book of Mormon away. He apologized and believed him after seeing it on TV.

The dance was great this time. It turns out that those two fellows who asked me if I was going to be there at the dance were there, I just didn't see them. I was able to dance with one of them several times, so that made up for the faux pau that I just didn't see them or wasn't where I could be seen. I think it was more about me actually not seeing them than anything else.

So I will close this entry for now and maybe need to write a new page about tomorrow's later on Sunday, or write two entries for Saturday's blog. I can hardly wait to tell more good stuff about my experience attending the workshops and Saturday night dance.