Day 4

I woke up to the sound of Grandpa's phone vibrating, and rattling the dresser across the room from me. Conference started soon after that. We all watched and, at some point, we all changed into church clothes. As soon as the session ended, we packed up the car, said our good-byes to the kids, then dropped them off at their grandma's house on our way to Aunt Doretta's house. We parked in front of her house, then we all walked towards the "tracks". (Sort of the above-ground version of a subway. They had very nice seats.) When we got to the Conference Center, we walked through some metal detectors, stopped at the bathrooms, then walked to our seats. I guess someone in back home must know a guy, because our seats were right in the middle ofthe plaza. (Which I hear is the best place to sit.) We also saw our stake president's three childres, "the little Hawse girl" as Grandma calls her, and the lady who played Caroline Grant in the play we did last summer, because their seats were next to ours. The session was great, but my favorite part was actually before Conference started. All twenty-two hundred people in the room stood up, and the prophet and First Presidency walked in. You could just feel the spirit. (I think there's more spirit in that room than there is inour homes at any point in Conference.) When conference was over, we saw a couple called the Walkers, who apparently used to live near us. (Their son died in a car accident.) Wetook the tracks back to were we got on, then walked the rest of the way towards Aunt Doretta's house. After that, we stopped at the capitol building for pictures, and headed back to Uncle Dick and Aunt Evelyn's. We had another delicious home-cooked meal, and then we played Five Crowns until midnight.