Catching up.

Well first off....I just got back from youth conf. with everybody in the Cedar Rapids Stake, which took place in Independance, Missouri. It was a lot of fun...but unfortunatly....not as good as last year:-( I've talked to my dad however and I'm hoping he'll make better changes for next year. On Thursday when we first got there we split off into 3 groups, going to 3 different places. My group started off at the church with a talk by Sister Davenport. Then we traveled to Liberty Jail, and on to the visitors center. The picture on the left is of me, abigail, eliza, and kristina outside the Visitors Center.

After roaming around all day we went back to the hotel to get ready for the casual dance that night. Of course...our room...aka me, abigail and eliza made everyone else late. But hey...it takes a girl a long time to get ready:) The picture on the right is of me and abigail at dinner. I wish you could see my shirt. It was ADORABLE!

The next day after being ridiculously tired from wakinat 6:30 in the morning, we headed off to the service project which was cleaning up the parks. However we got lost MANY times, and could only get to one park to clean up. You can see how tough we are, and with our matching shirts, we look like we just got done with our community service for our prison facility:)

After our service project, we came to the stake center for lunch, and then headed off again to other places. First to
Far West to listen to my dad speak, then off to the 3 witnesses site where Brother Bellows gave a talk. After being all sweaty and gross, we went back to the hotel to get ready. The picture at the left is the outcome of ENOUGH time to actually get ready.

As the conference came to an end we went up to Adom-on-diamon on Saturday for our fast and testimony meeting. This is the 2nd ward girls in front of where we'll all be together again. Where family's reunite, and everyone will be so happy.

These are just a few more pictures.

CR2 girls just waiting for there lunch all hot and tired.

Abigail, Me, and Eliza just outside of Liberty Jail

Eliza, Abigail, and Me inside the visitors center.

Sister Kilgore and I right after testimony meeting. With time to change of course.

Me and Katie at the dance, pretty much matching.

My daddy and I dancing at the formal dance

Nothing to much has happened since Youth Conference has ended. But on Wednesday, Me and some other young women from church went to Thomas Park to play volley ball with the missionaries. After that I died my hair with auburn highlights, unforutnatly they turned...BLONDE! There a little different, but I wanted change. That night at young womens we got to teach the younger girls (beehives) the dances that we do at stake youth dances, aka; cha cha slide, sweet home alabama, macerena, and cotten eyed joe. That night Abigail slept over, and today we took the little kitten we found on Monday night at the garden to the animal shelter. Hopefully somebody will adopt it.

"Perseverance is not a long race, but many short races one after the other."