District Conference

I'm going to try to catch up this week on some posts that may be a bit outdated but I want to make sure I've put them up here so we can remember them. And hopefully they'll be of some interest to some of you.

Two weeks ago for church we had a District Conference. Elder Holland came. It was based out of Jordan and was broadcast to us here in Egypt. Well . . . sort of. It was one of those meetings where you really had to listen with the Spirit to get much from the meeting. The problem was the internet was out in Jordan but thankfully through 3rd world technology they were able to connect via some old phone. So we were only getting the audio on our end and no video. And much of the audio was garbled and very hard to understand. It was unfortunate because I've heard from some in Jordan that it was a great meeting.

OK. I'm not being quite fair. I'm sure it was great and from what I was able to hear and understand it was a great meeting. President Holland has a way of making us feel useful and like pioneers out here in this part of the world. Even though we're not on an official church mission here, we can't help but feel like we're moving the work along just by being here. It's an exciting time to be living here in the Middle East. While he was here he also dedicated Lebanon which was a newsworthy event.

I think the reason I may have gotten even less than most out of the meeting is due to our familial situation. I thought it was difficult enough to get 7 children to sit quietly for a two hour meeting when we've had Stake Conference or even watching General Conference. Try getting 7 kids to be quiet when all they're hearing is some garble over a speaker for two hours. Truthfully though, they did pretty good. I wanted them to be quiet if for nothing else so that others in attendance could hear as much as possible. We did have to take turns taking T out into the hallway and upstairs but overall they were as reverent as I could have expected them to be.