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Catching Up

So I had this whole thing written up durring sunday school a couple of weeks ago and it took a ride through the washing machine. Needless to say it is no longer with us. So I have to start from scratch.

I do have some notes from conference somewhere at home maybe I will dig them out and update later.

My feelings about conference. I went into conference very leary about the whole situation. In fact you can talk to Nathan and Kari about it. We had dinner with them a couple of nights before conference started and while we were there the council was having a dinner in the private room of the restaraunt. I said to Nathan, so should I go in there and tell them "Just to let you know I am here to vote no." I was only half kidding.
After the announcement was made that they had chosen Stephen I just had a bad feeling in my gut about the whole thing. I had other names come to mind immediately people that I thought would do a great job, I will keep those names to myself.

However, after going to the Aaronic Ministries Cauccus I was able to hear other peoples experiences with Stephen and some people that felt a confirming spirit even though they had never met him. It was after Gail's personal testimony that I was truly conforted and I knew that we were going to be doing the right thing. It was still hard to settle with but I knew that for the direction that the church is headed that we need someone like Stephen right now.

So that is how my experience with conference went and I know it is kind of anti-climactic but that is the basics of what went down, at least in my head.

posted by Aaron @ 10:57 AM