This was a beautiful weekend. The weather was wonderful, the sun shining and it was in the 60's. Saturday morning we drove out to Wayne High School to watch Collin Lewis, a seminary student, run in a track meet. Conference didn't start here until 12 pm so we got back in plenty of time and watched it at the Stake Center. We were thrilled to be able to sustain our new Prophet, Thomas S. Monson. What a privilege and blessing. We watched the afternoon session at home at 4 pm. Four sister FM missionaries joined me and we drove to Rochester to watch the operetta, The Merry Widow". The guys all went to the Priesthood session and we had a great time at the Eastman Theater. It is a beautiful place and the performance was great.
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Sunday morning we got up and took a wonderful walk through the Sacred Grove. We ended up on a few trails we hadn't been on before. We did find the "Apostle Iron Tree" and also met Elder and Sister Weston, the site director and Elder and Sister Judy, FM missionaries.
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The Westons from Bountiful, Utah
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Elder & Sister Judy from Idaho Falls area
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The Judy's pointed out the first signs of spring in the Sacred Grove.
On our way out of the grove we met Pres. & Sister Hemingway, Rochester Mission President, who reminded us it was April 6, 2008 and they were headed for Fayette for conference. We decided that was a wonderful idea and hurried home and changed and got out to the Fayette chapel in time for the morning session.
After the session Sister James, site missionary, took us on a wonderful tour of the Whitmer cabin where the church was organized. We heard some wonderful stories of the Whitmers and their important part in the church's organization.
We watched the last session of conference at the Stake Center in Palmyra. On our way out Pres. Siebach invited us over for some dinner and to watch "The Other Side of Heaven" with Sister Siebach. What a wonderful day and great people to spend it with.
Our thought for the week is "listen and obey" the great counsel we have been given this weekend by Prophets of God. How blessed we are. We send our love.
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3 comments:
That must be a really neat place to be, especially at this time--April 6 and General Conference! Thank you for sharing your experiences! :-)
I love you and want you to come back forever.
Love,
Robbie
I just reviewed your blog and enjoy your pictures and comments so very much. I noticed in the Church News a couple weeks ago that there was a special viewing of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Palmyra Visitors Center. I looked at the pictures to see if I could find you in some of them. I bet that was a great turn out for that visitors center to have hundreds come out for that special event.
We love you both! You seem to be having wonderful experiences on your mission.
Love, Debi and John
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