This weekend was actually pretty awesome!
A few months ago at church, it was announced that two general authorities would be visiting our area. Those two were Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apsotles and Gerrit W. Gong of the Seventy. AND IT WAS SO GOOD.
(Quote from Elder Gong's talk from the last general conference. Link is farther down on this post. This was actually my favourite quote from that talk.)
But let me rewind:
When we found out these general authorities were coming, we decided to make a young single adult activity out of it too. It took some planning about what we should do. Big shout out to Charmaine and her family for making most of what we did possible! Love yous!
Back to the present:
On Saturday, I worked until 5:30 p.m. and from there, I drove my car to Sackville. I was accompanied by Megan and Tim and Michael. They are a funny bunch and I love them all.
When we arrived at the Mount A campus, we received our dorm room keys, but couldn't go to our rooms yet. We had a fireside with Rick Cartier and Rick Watson. We called it Rick Squared. Their messages were really great. There was about 18 Young Singles Adults attending, which is small but we all get along very well so that was maybe the best thing about it! After the fireside, we walked to my car to get our luggage and take it to the rooms. We changed out of our Sunday clothes and put on our sport gear to play ultimate frisbee! However, it took a few minutes to find a decent field to play it in, but after we did, we all played for until 11 p.m.! So much fun! I actually don't even know who won, but that's okay!
After playing, we went back to the dorms and chilled out for a bit. I decided to shower really quick then hung out with Megan and Charmaine. They decided to go bed, and I did shortly after.
I woke up early Sunday morning to get ready. Once I was ready and had some time, I remembered we were encouraged to read Elder Gong's talk from the April 2016 general conference.
Here it is: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/always-remember-him?lang=eng
I cried after reading it. I knew it was going to be a good day.
We ate some breakfast and Megan and I decided to go to the convocation hall early. I met my family when we got there, as they had driven over that morning from home.
(Megan and I taking an outfit photo because we look so good!)
It was really cool to see a lot of my friends from different places, including many missionaries I've met!
(Myself with Sister Barfuss and Sister Dutson, two sisters who have served in Charlottetown and I love them so much!)
Of course, we had to take a squad selfie. Haig is not impressed though
The meeting started at 10 a.m. and I actually started crying during the opening hymn.
I won't go into too much detail about the talks, but I will say that they were all awesome and inspiring. Elder Renlund bestowed an apostolic blessing to us, encouraging us to press forward through hard times. After it was done, we were told Elder and Sister Renlund would stand at the stage and shake hands with the saints. I was busy talking to people for a story I'm working on (stay tuned), so I let other people go ahead first. As the line died down, I joined Charmaine and John in the line to see them. I told Sister Renlund I was from P.E.I. and she told me she loves Anne of Green Gables! It was incredible!
After doing that, I found some more people to talk to! I found some members from Newfoundland who I met while I was there last summer and it was amazing to catch up with them!
We then had to hit the road to go back home. And driving back home, we stopped after getting off the bridge to take a group selfie.
All in all, it was an amazing Sunday with friends and the opportunity to receive inspiration from Heavenly Father's modern day apostles. :)
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