Saturday, 5 May 2018

London Temple tonight! Brilliant!!!

We met Dan & Julia in the main lobby of the Mercure Hotel at 8 am and proceeded to the Bristol Stake Centre to the YSA Conference. We were met by Jessica, one of the YSA leaders who organised the conference. Jessica is 26 years old and was baptised when she was 18 and didn't stay long in the faith. A senior couple met her last year and helped bring her back. She is just as darling as they come and is a CPA for a firm. She would be a great catch. There are 260 YSA that registered and more YSA were registering during the morning. Breakfast was cereal, fruit, juice and ham sandwiches. We saw three of our YSA - Diego, Kayla and Erin. Brother Beal is the Institute teacher and gave a devotional on Hope. It was one of the most inspirational talk on hope. He engaged the YSA and got them talking and reading scriptures and taught them about hope. After opening the devotional Julia and I attended a class on Family History while Dan and Clark went to the train station to buy tickets for Dan & Julia to go to Bristol to Heathrow Airport on Monday. All the other classes were physical activities. We watched Zumba for awhile. Julia and I were impressed with the Family History presentation using our cell phones. We downloaded the Family Search App and set a search for any relatives in the room. I found three relatives that were related to me. I got so excited and hugged my new found relatives-two relatives who were married and the presenters of the class and a YSA named Emily. We got to visit with the YSA and other senior couples during the second session of classes. Lunch was Subway Sandwiches, chips, apple juice and cookies. We said goodbye to Dan & Julia and drove home. It took us 3 hours to arrive home. Clark did the grocery shopping while I did laundry and cleaning. We did attend movie night at the Accommodations and saw 'Night at the Museum' which we had seen before. We could barely remember the movie and enjoyed it just as much or more the second time. We arrived home to finish the laundry and iron white shirts for the week. Sleep is so sweet!!!