Last Day of Conference. 2 October 2016

For many Latter-day Saints, Conference is quite an experience, especially attending in person.  My friend who moved here recently from Missouri was able to get tickets through her ward, and wanted to share her first experience in the Conference Center with me.  I was grateful for her thoughtfulness.  We sat in the Plaza 9 section, which had better acoustics than my Plaza 1 seating yesterday, and was close enough to the front to have a nice view.  The 30 foot wall-mounted monitor was not too far away.  My friend loves music and singing, so I was especially glad that the Tabernacle Choir sang for this afternoon session.  She remarked on how unified the choir was. The speakers gave us very good counsel, of course. Joy through repentance seemed to be a recurring theme, as this focuses us on the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  Our ability to repent is actually one of the primary gifts of the Atonement. We do not need to be stuck in negative behavior.  We can choose to change, for which I am very grateful.

This morning I was grateful for multiple electronic devices!  The laptop I usually use was not very cooperative, so I decided to shut it down--and maybe was mistaken in telling it to do updates!  When that process finished after more than an hour, it definitely started working better, but by then the first session of Conference was well underway!  I was reminded that I had my other laptop here, so I got that out, and also my i-Pad. I actually needed to use both of them as they both kept on glitching--fortunately at alternate times.  The last part of the morning session I was able to use the original now-cleaned-up laptop.

My friend and the couple she was coming with were taking Trax to get here, so I walked to the Southeast corner of Temple Square to meet up with them.  The weather seemed a bit threatening--but I had forgotten to bring my umbrella.  When we got to the Conference Center, and before we got inside, we did get rained on for a few minutes, but nothing too drastic.  By the time the session ended the sun was back out shining nicely.

After the session I came back to the apartment and got a batch of indexing done, and then started on cleaning up records on FamilyTree.  I found that I had some of the pictures I needed of sources, so I have been able to get a couple of families in much better shape record-wise. The computer is working much more efficiently now, for which I am very grateful!

My Sweetheart and I got to talk a bit this morning, and later this evening we will compare notes on Conference--a lovely opportunity.