GENERAL CONFERENCE

SO here goes this blogging thing again...

A few weeks ago was General Conference and it just so happened to be that MY SISTER WAS SINGING IN THE CHOIR during the Saturday afternoon session. My whole family was way excited that she would have such an amazing opportunity to sing in conference, SOOO they all decided to come down for the Saturday session. 

They came down on a Wednesday and stopped in Rexburg to visit before driving the rest of the way down to Salt Lake that night. I was so excited to see them, I had seriously missed them so much! Seeing as it was the week before finals, Lena and I couldn't go down to Salt Lake with them on Wednesday no matter how bad we wanted to... We both just had too much going on with classes and studying, but we drove down late Friday night to meet up with them in Salt Lake. 

I was lucky enough to be able to attend both sessions on Saturday. My Mom had three tickets to the morning session and then eight for the afternoon session. Livi, Shelby, and I managed to swipe the morning session tickets and had awesome seats in the conference centre :)

After the morning session we went to meet up with some of my friends from home who also happened to be down for conference weekend. Some of them I hadn't seen since they had left for their missions because I had been at school when they came back. It was so nice to see them!

...AND then I made Livi snap a BILLION pictures of Shelby and I hehe...but I couldn't help it! Temple Square is seriously SOOOOO pretty in the spring. 

I MAY or MAY not have lost track of time during all this. I had originally made plans with my Mom to meet the fam outside the conference centre around 1:00...but between meeting up with friends and taking pictures I realized that it was already quarter to 1:00 and we hadn't gone and got lunch yet. I called my Mom and told her we would be a little late and we rushed over to City Creek Mall to grab a quick bite to eat (along with the other 21 000 people planning on going to conference at 2:00 hahaha...whoopsie).

 We grabbed something as quickly as we could and started walking back to the conference centre. Finding a spot on temple square, we sat down to quickly eat our food and then basically the plan was to RUN to the conference centre to make it on time. 

Livi literally had two bites of food and then she said she felt like she was going to throw up and ran to find somewhere to throw up on Temple Square (AND CAN I JUST SAY THIS IS NO EASY TASK...there is literally no where to throw up). She found a garbage can and Shelby and I finished eating and then went over to check on her when she didn't come back. It was seriously terrible timing. My Mom kept calling because we still weren't over there and Livi wasn't going anywhere at that moment. We found out she was actually choking (I SERIOUSLY WIN FOR WORST SISTER AWARD...) not the kinda choking where you can't breath but the kind of choking where you have something stuck in your throat. We didn't really know what to do. My Dad eventually came over and found us. He gave Shelby and I two tickets and told us to go and took care of poor Livi. 

Something always seems to happen to Livi when we go to conference...and one of my parents always misses to take care of her. We were all disappointed they couldn't make it into the session. Especially because Livi ended up being okay, but Lena's choir sang so beautifully and we got to point her out a few times on the screen! (I may have had a few proud sister moments...)

Despite our conference experience being slightly chaotic, I am so grateful I was able to attend with my family. AND I was so proud of my sister! 

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