Conference

Twice a year I look forward to General Conference whether it is with some of my children, and grandchildren or the two of us alone in the quiet of our family room.  This year was no different in that respect, however I was a little concerned over the language since I cannot always ( actually seldom) understand what is going on in Sacrament, Sunday School, and Relief Society.  Then Dad thought of a plan.  I would sit with him and watch conference on my ipad with the ear plugs in.  I wouldn't bother anyone and I could actually understand the words of the Prophets and apostles.  I was excited to go and I greeted everyone with the usual kisses.  We got there a bit early so I could get plugged in so to speak.  I got to listen to the first two talks and everything was going great when the site crashed. The stream in the chapel is satellite so it was there but my ipad couldn't pick up anything. I sat there so disappointed that I couldn't help  my eyes watering profusely.  Dad felt horrible but he was having his own struggles trying to understand.  After a few minutes I left and went to another room closer to the server but to no avail.  Conference ended and we went to the Centro Commerical  (Mall) for dinner at Pizza Hut.  I voiced my frustration as did Dad and we both laughed and he reminded me how far I had come with the language and I truly had been blessed with the gift of tongues but I wasn't done yet.  The Pizza was great (better than at home)  We had two hours until conference started again at 9pm so we walked around the mall, and I bought a book bag to carry all my study supplies.  Then, we went back to the Faro Chapel for conference.  I  found out the Sisters were setting up for an investigator who only speaks English so went to join him.  He was a very nice young man from Napal.   The sisters left us in this little office and we couldn't get the TV to connect to the stream so we used my ipad  and  it worked at least for part of the session- GRR!  So, we visited for the rest of the time.  He told me a bit of his story and I got to bear testimony to him of the  truthfulness   of the Gospel.  I told him that God didn't take away our problems he just gave us the strength to be able to endure them.  He is a light in a dark world.  And that EVERYONE needs the gospel in their lives if they want to be truly happy.  I think  he will get baptized if he can stop smoking.  The cigarette packages here have a large sign on the front of them and in big bold letters it says "Causes Death"