Sunday, April 26, 2009

General Conference a la Elizabeth

The first week we were in Buenos Aires we met some missionary couples who were serving at the area offices. They invited us to attend conference with them and all the other couple missionaries in english at the area offices. We gladly accepted this offer. They had a beautiful facility with comfortable chairs. There were about 10 couples and a few other english speakers present. Elizabeth did very well just sitting and playing. We decided to have her pay attention (in her own way) to the first talk and after that we let her color. Thomas was just too happy all the time so we took turns playing with him in the hallway.
The couples were so nice to the children. They just loved having them there since they missed their own grand children. Between sessions the couples provided a wonderful lunch (both days). On Sunday morning we decided to try something new with Elizabeth to try to help her be a little more involved in conference. She drew a picture of all the different speakers and did a great job (as you can see below). It really helped her to be more aware what was going on. She did amazingly well and was very reverent throughout the whole session. It is definitely different to attend conference at a different location then our home (I mean for the children's sake) but honestly I enjoyed it more and it was a great experience.

President Monson was conducting.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing "There is sunshine in my soul today".

Elder Uchtdorf looks quite interesting (a bit scary if I may say so).

Elder Andersen

Elder Snow
To make things a bit more interesting she decided to hide some items in this drawing.
See if you can find the following items:
1. Easter Egg
2. Easter basket
3. Snake

President Monson (while conducting)

Choir

Sister Thompson

Elder Holland

President Monson with a blue tie.

1 comment:

Leslie Jam said...

Great pictures Elizabeth!