Tuesday, September 30, 2008

RS General Conference Broadcast

We are in the New Burgh, New York Stake. The stake center is about an hour away. Our Stake Relief Society Presidency put on an awesome workshop and dinner before the Broadcast. There were 7 of us sisters from the Monticello Branch that car-pooled there. I took Sister McCune and her two little girls, and Lisa Champlain, our most recent convert. The theme of the meeting was: Be Missionary Minded. We went to 6 workshops that helped everyone know how to be member missionaries in any aspect of your life. It was awesome. We had a great salad bar and then an opening devotional before the broadcast. We had all been put in districts like missionaries are and one of the districts had to give impromptu 2 1/2 minute talks about different areas concerning the restoration. Another district had to sing an impromptu musical number. They all did a great job. The spirit was very strong. The broadcast was such a spiritual feast as always. I was personally a little bit sad that Pres. Monson didn't talk.

The night was such a good thing for the two sisters that came with me. They really enjoyed it. A really sad thing is that Sister McCune hadn't been out of Monticello for a long time. Neither one has a car and they don't get around much. They depend on other people with cars or walk everywhere. She was loving the ride and seeing the scenery. Sister McCune is actually living in a motel right now waiting on a place to be inspected so that social security can place her in a place to live. Her last place was condemned because of cockroaches and mold. It was so gross. She abandoned almost all her stuff, because it was infested with cockroaches. We even ended up with a few cockroaches in our car when helping her move out into the motel.

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