I think that this last weekend was the first time in my entire life that I actually watched/heard all of Conference during Conference Weekend. When I was younger, all Conference Weekend meant was a Sunday that I didn't have to put on a dress I didn't want to wear and go to church. During the years I wasn't attending church regularly, I obviously didn't watch Conference. Over the last few years that I've been attending church, one thing or another has stopped me from seeing or hearing all of Conference during the weekend. I've downloaded the audio files afterward and listened throughout the following week, but never all of it on the weekend of the broadcast.
Not that I didn't have some technical difficulties with seeing all of it. Channel 8 doesn't like to come in at my house and we don't get BYU-TV. Therefore, I had planned on watching the Saturday morning session online. Having stayed up way too late Friday night, I had a difficult time dragging myself out of bed. I somehow managed to do it, and sat down at my computer and logged on to byutv.org. I pulled up the Conference feed and listened to the beautiful choir singing. President Eyring came to the podium and. . .no sound. I flipped over to lds.org and tried that feed. Still no audio from the podium. I flipped back and forth a couple of times and got audio as the choir sang their next song. The first speaker came to the podium, and there was still no audio from the podium mike. Needless to say, I ended up listening to that session on Saturday night while doing dishes and eating dinner.
However, I did manage to watch or hear all of the sessions, including the talks I fell asleep during (yes, I know I'm horrible), by the end of Sunday. I'm kind of proud of that accomplishment. Now, over the next week or so, I'll be listening to each talk on my iPod and taking notes verbatim. By hand. It gets the messages into my head better for some reason and I've been doing it for a couple of years now.
All of the speakers were amazingly uplifting, and I certainly found plenty of advice and counsel that seemed directed straight at me. I've found that if I listen to the speakers, I'll always find something the Lord wanted me to hear.
What was my favorite part of conference, you might ask? President Uchtdorf talking about tree rings and then saying, ". . .that's all well and good, but what does it have to do with flying an airplane?"
4 comments:
Don't feel bad about falling asleep. I did too and I really tried not to.
I think it's just that the voices tend to be so soothing that I just can't help but relax and feel peaceful which leads to sleep. Oh well, at least I listened to them again after the fact.
I didn't fall asleep, but that's because I was too busy playing with the cat. I think what works best for me is to listen to it on my headphones while I'm out walking.
I agree Adam. It's much easier to stay alert and pay attention when I've got it on my iPod and am able to do something else at the same time.
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