TOFW - Saturday

Saturday was just as awesome as Friday night's event.

It started off with Emily Watts who is real and funny. One of my favorite thoughts from her talk is that outward appearance can represent inner commitment but sometimes we spend more effort on the outward appearance than on that inner commitment.

Next was Sheri Dew's replacement - Remember those ah's of disappointment? Well when Sheri's replacement was announced, there was a gasp of pure excited. John Bytheway! I'd never gotten to hear him speak before and he was incredible!
Some thoughts from John Bytheway:

• feelings of comparing and competing fade away when the Spirit is present.
• As the sacrament bread is prepared and we are singing of the atonement, watch the Priests breaking the bread - bruised, broken, torn for us. There's a reason this is done in front of us not ahead of time.
• Appreciate our spouse. Not have him come home to a wife fed up with the kids, but to a hero's welcome.
• Ask "what's it like to be married to me?"

Any my absolute favorite was a quote he shared from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland...

The future of this world has long been declared; the final outcome between good and evil is already known. There is absolutely no question as to who wins because the victory has already been posted on the scoreboard. The only strange thing in all of this is we are down here still on the field trying to decide which team's jersey we want to wear!

After John Bytheway, was Wendy Ulrich. I hadn't really heard of her before but had probably seen her books in the DeseretBook catalog over the years. Well, my review after her talk - fabulous.


Favorites from Wendy, who talked about weakness verses sin.

• If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly rather than not at all, while you learn to do it better.
• 5 P's for a weakness... Ponder, Prioritize, Practice, Prop (Prop yourself up with good books, good people), Patience.
• The difference between sin and weakness is it's author!

Our last presenter was Kris Belcher, another newbie to me. But she was inspiring and uplifting. Her story is amazing and she's turned it into a wonderful way to help others. She had us crying sad tears to laughing so hard we were crying.... all 2000 of us!
Favorite thoughts from Kris....His will and my will must be the same and His isn't going to change. Adversity comes from sin or evidence that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ feel we're ready to grow more.

Now you'll notice that I didn't get pictures of everyone. Not sure why. But I know the reason I took like 10 pictures of Wendy Ulrich - I LOVED her suit. I want one for me. I told my friends with me that and they agreed it matched me. So now I have a quest to find that suit for myself :)

Here we are after the event - Heather, me and Claudine.