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This weekend the Camarillo Stake hosted the Regional SA Conference. It started on Thursday evening with a chapel session and an endowment session at the Los Angeles Temple. It was a wonderful experience! President Dietrich, the temple recorder (also part of the TO stake presidency) spoke as well as President Heslop of the temple presidency. I was inspired and uplifted! Ami Harris, Corrine and I drove there together. Marj Kempner met us there.
Saturday we were asked to help with the breakfast and so we were at the church by 7:00 am! Hello, so much for sleeping in! We helped prepare the food and then joined the group for breakfast. The keynote speaker was Elder Tenney of the Seventy. I was asked to give the opening prayer at that meeting. He was a wonderful speaker and was inspiring. His wife spoke as well. There were two workshops -- one from Elder Tenney and one from President Barlow (yes, Uncle Norm). They were separated by a lunch catered by Subway and then there was another group session with Bishop Gholston from Newbury Park. He is a scientist for Rocketdyne and has been heavily involved with NASA. They did a question and answer session with the stake presidents and then dinner was from Wood Ranch. After dinner there was a special musical performance from James O'Neal Miner. He was amazing! After the performance I headed home (yes, I avoided the dance) and worked on RS!
So, a few people have asked me my thoughts on the speakers and so here are the main points I learned from each person:
Elder Tenney -- God is always creating and Satan's mission is to destroy. If we want to know how to respond, think about this -- is it creating or destroying?
President Barlow -- His presentation was "Walk Where Jesus Walks" and after spending time in the Jerusalem Center he gets asked, "How will I ever get to the Holy Land and be able to walk where Jesus walked?" He testified of the significance of the temple and that it is there we will walk where He walks
Bishop Gholston -- He gave a presentation about space and space exploration. He shared scriptures that talk about 'worlds without number' and showed 'evidence' of such in a scientific way. The last thing he stated and testified was from Elder Uchtdorf -- "God knows your name." Wow! That was a powerful conclusion.
Saturday we were asked to help with the breakfast and so we were at the church by 7:00 am! Hello, so much for sleeping in! We helped prepare the food and then joined the group for breakfast. The keynote speaker was Elder Tenney of the Seventy. I was asked to give the opening prayer at that meeting. He was a wonderful speaker and was inspiring. His wife spoke as well. There were two workshops -- one from Elder Tenney and one from President Barlow (yes, Uncle Norm). They were separated by a lunch catered by Subway and then there was another group session with Bishop Gholston from Newbury Park. He is a scientist for Rocketdyne and has been heavily involved with NASA. They did a question and answer session with the stake presidents and then dinner was from Wood Ranch. After dinner there was a special musical performance from James O'Neal Miner. He was amazing! After the performance I headed home (yes, I avoided the dance) and worked on RS!
So, a few people have asked me my thoughts on the speakers and so here are the main points I learned from each person:
Elder Tenney -- God is always creating and Satan's mission is to destroy. If we want to know how to respond, think about this -- is it creating or destroying?
President Barlow -- His presentation was "Walk Where Jesus Walks" and after spending time in the Jerusalem Center he gets asked, "How will I ever get to the Holy Land and be able to walk where Jesus walked?" He testified of the significance of the temple and that it is there we will walk where He walks
Bishop Gholston -- He gave a presentation about space and space exploration. He shared scriptures that talk about 'worlds without number' and showed 'evidence' of such in a scientific way. The last thing he stated and testified was from Elder Uchtdorf -- "God knows your name." Wow! That was a powerful conclusion.
2 comments:
Sounds like fun...any cute guys at the conference? :)
what do you mean you left before the dance? That's the best part, ha, ha, ha!!!!
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