General Conference Weekend

Crazy that General Conference weekend was already two months ago. Our Conference issue of the Ensign arrived this morning which got me thinking back to that weekend and realizing that we never posted a thing about it. It is always filled with so many great lessons and motivations to be better. It still feels a little strange to watch it at such different times than we did growing up (due to living in a different country) but we're adjusting. 

We went into conference stocked up on related activities for Atticus to do while watching conference, but in the end we did not need a single one of them. Atticus loved conference - or perhaps he loved that we had picnics on the floor while we watched conference. In any case, it was fun to see his eyes glued to the various speakers, cheering when the new temples were announced and smiling as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang.

One talk that we loved was in the General Relief Society broadcast and was actually the inspiration for our new blog name. You can watch or read that talk given by President Uchtdorf here.

As per tradition, fall General Conference goes hand-in-hand with home made apple pie which we invite others over to enjoy and talk about our favorite messages. This year we had the missionaries and a lovely lady from our congregation over to join us. Sure wish we remembered to snap a picture of those fantastic people! We did snap a couple pictures of the pie....

it helps that I was able to take a picture of the pie before the guests came and the kids were still napping... after that things just got busy and the camera sat on the shelf.

We did this on Monday, which coincided with 3 October (Leiden Ontzet. Which also happens to coincide with German Unity Day), so we decided to have a lovely Dutch meal and share some dutch culture and history with our guests. We cooked up some vegetarian hustpot for dinner and enjoyed some Dutch apple pie with Stroopwafel for dessert. Then our guests joined us for a Family Home Evening about gratitude in preparation for Thanksgiving. It was great having Conference fall on a long weekend as it really helped us to relax and soak in the messages that were being shared with us from apostles of the Lord. It's definitely time to go back and review those conference notes, assess goals that were made as a result and formulate new ones.

It was one fantastic weekend and we loved being able to share it with others.