For those who didn't make it to the women's conference, I highly recommend you to attend next year even if it's just a part of it. The scale of women's conference totally blew me away. I enjoyed every aspect of the meeting.
Fun run: I didn't go, but I am sure it's good to do some running with sisters.
Service Project: Original project to donate 10 quilts. It turned out to be 60 quilts. Sisters also donated an abundance of school supplies.
Food: Excellent food that kept coming. They provided dinner, breakfast and brunch. Yum.
Entertainment: the variety show was funny. There were singing, dancing, piano playing. the funiest of all prabably was the facial exercise and the single's ward (I Need A Man). Of course, the Polynesian sisters shined with dancing.
Devotionals: Brother Christian talked about how big is the universe and why God who is the creator can perform miracles. Sister Dance talked about her family and how she benefits from a loving family.
Classes: this is probably the best part of the conference besides the dinner and the show. I went to Brother Huntington's class. He talked about why we should face our fears as a new challenge and live up to our dreams.
Then I stayed for a budgeting class. The teacher, Brother Ellsworth talked about how all the millionaries have somethings in common: budgeting, saving, and living modestly. Then I went to a class on how to feed a family on a budget. I learned to use a shopping list when shopping, to shop less often, and to use canning and buying in bulk.
The next day, I went to a modesty class. Sister Breshears (the other Breshears)shared her strategies on how to make the clothing modest by doing a little bit of editing. She also said we need not to be fashionable. Shopping should not be our main passion.
The last class I went was about depression. Brother Grasser pointed out the causes of the depression (generic, drugs, alcohol, abuse) and the main symptoms (sleep disorder, isolation, mood swing). As I talked this subject with my son, he said it has a lot to do with personal choice. I think he's right.
The last class I went to was about organization and cleaning. After the class, I was determined to get rid my clutter, and have my kids clean up the house on Saturdays and clean up right away. There are tons of classes I wanted to attend but I couldn't.
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I love reading your blog posts! I can’t make an “official comment” because I’m not a blogger. I’m sure there are others that can’t post because of that. You are more than welcome to post for me if you want.
I didn’t really get to see you at conference because we were in different classes. ;( I was only able to attend on Friday because I had a seminary meeting on Saturday in Anchorage.
I went to Laurie Christensen’s class on “Savory Breads”. It was so informative! She had one Basic Bread recipe and then she made several things from the Basic Bread recipe and varied it a little here and there to do Monkey Bread, Sun Dried Tomato Rolls and Focaccia Bread. Laurie shared her many tips and ideas throughout the two hour class, not to mention, we ate some of everything. Yummo!
Afterward I went to Kari Gray’s class on “Keeping an Eternal Perspective”. Kari is already a wonderful example of this and she exemplifies it in her life daily. I could have listened to her talk about paint drying on the wall and loved it. She has always been one of my all time favorite people and is so down to earth. Great talk and she’s very inspiring.
Jane Breshears
BTW Jessica ~ You didn’t mention that you are our only talent from the ward. Great piano playing you brave girl! We are blessed to have you in the ward.
Jessica,
You do such a nice job! Thanks!
Loree
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