SUNDAY - JULY 26th (part 1)

We woke up early this morning and head to the conference center to listen to the choir perform. I have to give one minor detail to this. Unfortunately, we only brought 1 set of church clothes and wore them yesterday. I called Laurie and asked if it would be okay to not wear Sunday dress. She said.....sure there will be others not in Sunday dress, don't worry. So off we went. As we parked the girls mentioned loudly to me that we are the ONLY ones in vacation attire and they are NOT getting out of the car. I said that the Lord wouldn't care what we are wearing, he would be glad we were there. There were probably 7-10 people wearing "vacation clothes" and we were 5 of them!! After a little forcing we all were walking into the conference center. That place is MAMMOTH!! Drew and Andy had to watch in the children's theater because it was a live taping they didn't want extra noise. Wow is all I can say...nothing compares to it!

After they performed we met up with the boys and took a tour of the conference center. That place is more then I imagined! HUGE is definitely and understatement. It was so awesome to hear all the details that were thought about during the making of it. Like having no pillars or beams to block anyone's view....or the way the upper level is on a teeter totter weight system. WOW!!
We were so incredibly lucky to meet on of the 12 apostles - Elder Christofferson. He was upstairs with an intimate group of about 6 people looking at the apostle pictures and our tour guide asked if we new who we just passed. I wasn't paying attention but Emily did! Drew was best friends by now with the tour guide and she took him right over to him to meet him. We felt a little out of place with our dress but we so grateful for the opportunity!


Off to the roof of the conference center. It is like a mini city up there! Who would ever have thought that there would be trees, flowers and water up there!!


After we finished the tour of the conference center we walked over to the church museum. It was so incredible to see all the history of the church. The kids all had a great time learning new fun things about our chuch. Since Emily would only be with us for a few days we asked her if she wanted to do church history or Lagoon......she chose church history!