General Conference Weekend-Adventurous!!

What a great weekend I got to spend with Sheldon. He had two tickets to the 1st session of General Conference and asked if I would like to go with him. Of course, I couldn't say no, and give up a weekend of conference and being with him. We left Friday night, and stopped in Ogden to pick up his grandma's motor home. It was quite the adventure driving the motor home through Salt Lake traffic. But I must say, he is an excellent driver. I stayed at my aunt Deanne's house and Sheldon stayed in the motor home in the parking lot of Aunt Deanne's school. She fed us dinner: pizza, salad, and fruit. It was so good to catch up with her and uncle Max. Whitney, Tanner, Easton, and Landon were also staying there to. It was good to see them, since I only get to once a year. Me and Whitney had a sleepover and stayed up way late talking. I miss those days.

We woke up early Saturday morning. Deanne and Max went overboard on our breakfast! The table was decorated so cute, with matching plates and utensils. In the strawberry red theme. We had heart shaped waffles, eggs, sausage, fruit, juice, and milk. It was a very delicious and healthy breakfast. We said our goodbyes and me and Sheldon headed off for the Conference Center. We had a free parking pass, but spent to long trying to find it. We found a close by parking spot near an LDS church and walked fast to get in line. The lines were huge. We managed to make it in, and didn't have to be searched. We had seats in the terrace but ended up on the third floor. I didn't care where we sat, I was just so happy to be there and in the same room as the prophet, apostles, and other church leaders. This session was so good!!! I felt like I got way more out of it. Being there really helps. I just loved being a room full of the spirit and with people of the same beliefs. This sessions was so full of council and guidance. I truly believe our church leaders know what kind of world we are headed for and our there for us every step of the way to guide and teach us. They are such great examples to us. After conference we went to the car to find.....why yes, a parking ticket. We were parked for 2 hrs. and 10 mins. in a 2 hr. parking spot. It was quite hilarious. But all of the millions of cars on that street had tickets as well. We went back to move the motor home to find this lovely sign......Deanne called us and said the pastor asked us to move the motor home because his congregation was doing something that afternoon, and they needed the parking lot. But there were never any cars there the whole day. It was quite funny. So we moved it to the front of Deanne's house, got it parked, changed, and headed back to Temple Square. Temple Square is one of my favorite places to go and visit and the Salt Lake Temple is my favorite temple!!! As you can tell, I was very EXCITED to be there. :) We walked around the temple and looked at the fountains and statues. It was a lot of fun. Then Sheldon surprised me by taking me to BENIHANA'S!!!!!

It was a great SURPRISE!! The food was so good, and the cool part about this restaurant, is that they cook your food in front of you and put a show on for you. It was amazing to watch them and how talented they were. Our chef cracked an egg and made a chicken out of it. The chef at the table next to us would flip his egg up several times with his spatula, without cracking it, and then would crack it perfectly in his bowl. They gave you so much food. Sheldon and I had the Fillet Mignon!!! His came with shrimp and chicken also. We had salad, with their own kind of homemade dressing, soup, homemade rice, and sherbet. I was very impressed and was so glad he took me there. He is so good to me!! We had a BLAST in Salt Lake City; Conference, dinner, and the temple. Couldn't get much better than that!!!!