We just returned from a wonderful trip to Utah. I say wonderful because we were able to celebrate the life of our nephew, David Allred. His young life and fight with cancer has been an example to all of us. We are so grateful for his testimony and we pray for his family in his absence for a season. We are so thankful for the gospel and the eternal nature of families. We were able to see so much family. Trevor came with his two children and Darin and Lori with their family.



After the funeral we headed for Salt Lake City to wait for general conference. I have never attended live conference in the convention center and Clyde wanted to visit the Family History Library. So we spent the week in Salt Lake and loved every minute of it. We soaked up the history of the church by visiting the museum, watching the Joseph Smith film, attending the temple, and temple visitors center, seeing the Mormon art show and listening to the organ recital. We practiced our skills of research on family lines. I say practice because we are novices at really how to do research. We had a blast with so much information and help in one place. We saw friends from our mission and old friends from Texas.






The most wonderful thing about the trip to Salt Lake was conference. We were able to attend all but one session in person. We sat at the feet (literally on the middle 13th row from the front) of our apostles and prophet and drank of the Spirit. It was literally a life changing experience to see the gospel in action. We have lived in the mission field so many years and there is nothing like seeing the world wide church to make you grateful for our leaders and their sacrifices in our behalf. I am so grateful to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.