Saturday was amazing, I got up close to 10am and found the mormon channel website. The Mormon Channel is usually where I either listen to or watch conference. I'm not going to talk about the actual sessions until the end of the post, but they were all awesome this weekend. I probably won't get into details until I can read them later this week when they are in text, but I will tell you my favorites! I fell asleep in the 2nd hour of the first session for only 15 minutes. I was pretty good at listening to all the talks this time around; though I did zone out quite a few times. I can't beat myself up too much though because I came back from space fairly quickly. I had some Apple Jacks and a cheese and chicken sandwich for breakfast during the first session and then went downstairs after that.
After the first session I got a reply from Sam about Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder. I asked him how to start playing and he gave me a good amount of advice that I am thankful for. Pathfinder is like a spinoff of D&D, and most of his advice was about it. More of my friends have been playing tabletop RPGs so I think it's about time I learn as well. I've been interested in Dungeons & Dragons and stuff ever since I met Sam, but I've been putting it off. Anyway, I'm just happy I can get him to reply to me on facebook still. That tells me everything is clearing up and going back to normal. I sure and glad I took the initiative and decided to calm down and let go of all my regrets and torments.
For the first hour after the first session of conference I just mostly hung out in my room surfing facebook, watching Power Rangers on Netflix, and other random stuff. The hour before the 2nd session I decided out of nowhere that I was going to go get some chocolate from the store. I grabbed my phone, headphones and wallet and headed to the store where I looked around for a good 45 minutes at everything from shampoo, to soap, to crackers, to other stuff like cereal. I wanted to buy some other things, but I'm already low on money, so i decided against it and actually walked out of the store with nothing but two bars of the amazing Lindt Excellence dark chocolate. One was pomegranite and the other one was lemon, it was a new flavor.
I ate chocolate while listening to conference and following along with the tweets about it on Twitter. I try not to spend too much time following everyone's tweets on twitter, but when I do it is always interesting and fun. Part way through the second session I found out Laura made oatmeal raisin cookies! This just made the day even better and I felt so blessed.
The rest of the second session on Saturday was amazing, and I felt so lucky to have bee listening to it. After the conclusion of the second session though afer an hour of doing pretty much nothing interesting besides watching Garfield and Friends I decided to go outside and take a walk. The clouds up until this point had been pretty bright and the sun was still shining through them quite a lot, but in the half and hour I walked things took a drastic turn and the darker clouds came in. I listened to techno and the temperature was perfect.
Then there was this random rainbow... It was super weird because the sun wasn't even out from behind the clouds and the position was off. I have no clue what could have caused it.
Things were going well on my walk until the darker clouds came in. 33 or minutes in I heard thunder and felt a few drops but decided to go one more lap. I was so sure I would make it before it started pouring, but I was wrong. Half way through my last lap it started coming down, and I had to stick my headphones under my shirt and turn off my music so nothing would get damaged. I knew I was in a real pickle right then, but realized the rain was blowing west and so because my house was East I knew the best thing to do was to jog backwards with my back towards the rain. I'm sure I looked silly, but it was kind of fun. I had to jog kind of sideways for a little bit before I got to the part of the track that went East. Everything worked out and when I got to the end of the track and crossed the street the rain calmed down enough for me to go south to my house. I am grateful that the rain calmed down long enough for me to get home. I am also glad that the weather wasn't colder, because that would have been miserable. That moment was kind of intense, but it was really fun actually. After I got inside I grabbed my yoga towel and dried off quickly.
Nothing all that interesting happened until I decided to tune into the priesthood session of conference that is primarily for men out of curiosity. Brother Uchtdorf blasted cynisism almost right off the bat when I tuned in and I was caught off guard. I don't think it was a cooincidence that I chose that moment to listen out of curiosity because I have trouble with being a cynic sometimes. I'm an optimist most of the time, but sometimes I do fall into those shadows in a big way. The rest of the meeting was pretty interesting. NOthing much happened afterward, I just spent the rest of the night pretty much watching Garfield and Friends and filling in the gaping two month hole I left in my blog. As I said above though, I am on August now so I'm half way through!
Anyway, today there were two more sessions of conference. I am sad it is over and I did fall asleep again during part of the morning session again just like yesterday, but it wasn't that long. I made sure to take a nap inbetween the sessions this time so I wasn't tired for the last session. Everything has gone great today and I pretty much have been just relaxing all day. I went on another walk today after conference, but this time it was mostly sunny. There were a lot of clouds, but the sun didn't go behind them often. I've just been watching stuff on Netflix and other random boring stuff ever since.
I am not going to talk much about the talks now, because I want to wait until they are in text format. I can gain more and talk about them more than, but for now I should tell you that some of my favorite talks over the past two days were the last one on the church leaders, the one about the importance of women, the one about the importance of mothers, the one about the holy spirit, and the one at the beginning of today's morning session that President Monson gave. I loved all the talks, but those were the ones that stuck out the most to me. When I get to read them later in the week I might have some ne favorites, or more favorites at least, but I don't know yet.
Anyway, I'm just going to end here. I'm pretty tired and just need to relax and let my mind wind down. I think eating all that chocolate yesterday zapped a lot of my energy. I'm glad I decided to do this post early because I probably would have been too lazy later haha.
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