Time out for Women

This past weekend was the TOFW seminar. We originally purchased tickets for this seminar in November of last year. It was to be held in January of this year, but that turned out to be the weekend that President Hinkley's funeral, so it was postponed until September (we went from first to almost last on the schedule). Let me just say it was worth the wait.

Friday night Leslie, Melissa, Kelly and I attended. We heard from Hillary Weeks, Elia Gourgouris, and the Jason Deere and the Nashville Tribute to Joseph Band. They were all great. We enjoyed the music and heard about how to develop relationships.

Saturday, started early. Leslie had to work this day so Lauren joined us for the day. We again heard from Hillary Weeks, then Virginia Hinkley Pierce speaking on prayer, Pam Hansen on how to like yourself, Amanda Dickson on how to hand a messy life, Michael Wilcox on "Accents of Wonder" how to learn to love Heavenly Father through recognizing what he has given us. Then Chris Stewart on redefining joy.

We had a picnic lunch out side under some trees on a perfect LV afternoon. Lauren had tickets to a home show going on at the same time in the Convention Hall, so after eating she and Melissa walked through the displays and then joined Kelly and I for the second half.

Mike had a band job that morning playing for the Diabetes Foundation. He arrived a short time before we did and started barbecuing chicken for us for dinner. What a great weekend! It was also topped off by being able to do temple sealings for family names Friday afternoon.

The only sad part was that we didn't have Lauren and Leslie together with us the whole weekend to get a picture! I am so happy that Kelly and Melissa were able to make the trip.