Shelbey's Graduation

I went to Utah in April for Shelbey's graduation from BYU. 

Cait's calendar made me smile.

The ceremonies weren't important to her, so it was short and sweet. We couldn't even locate her during most of the ceremony in the Marriott Center. Cait was totally convinced she found her... and I took several pictures of a stranger.

Wilmington

Every year, the youth from the surrounding stakes have a dance on the deck of the USS North Carolina in Wilmington. We went to chaperone, and thought we'd probably be assigned to a certain area and just make sure the kids were safe and there was no funny business. No, no. There were no assignments, no entrance/exit security, the kids were free to roam nearly anywhere on the massive ship (like 10 decks!), and we were on a metal ship during a lightning watch. Basically it was a huge disaster/lawsuit waiting to happen. Luckily, nothing went majorly wrong.

April

April kicked off with General Conference. The missionaries challenged us to watch conference with specific questions in mind, which we did.  I took a lot of notes and felt like my questions were addressed pretty heavily, but other people thought conference focused on completely different topics. Interesting how the Spirit works!

I know it's probably bad to have favorite apostles, but I do. Elder Holland rocked it. His talk didn't address any of the questions I had in mind, but he did say something that stuck with me more than any other speaker:

"Except in the case of His only perfect Begotten Son, imperfect people are all God has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to Him, but He deals with it. So should we."