Sisters Retreat

The annual sisters retreat was a blast. Besides being very fun it was educational. We spent the first two days at the BYU Women's Conference attending breakout sessions (100's of different ones) that were very interesting and often very spiritual. On Thursday night we attend a Luau and then participated in the evening of service. It was amazing! We put together 25,000 hygiene kits. It was pretty much rows and rows of assembly lines putting in towels, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes and combs into plastic bags and finishing with a little card saying it was from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints. Then they were put into boxes of 10 and taped shut, put on huge pallets till it was full and then wrapped with plastic and it was ready to be put on a plane to help the world. We did this just days before the tornado hit that town back east . . . perhaps some of our efforts went there. The women also assembled school bags for kids, made baby blankets, etc. There were so many ways to do service during the 2 days it is hard to mention them all. During the whole two days we each crocheted dish clothes or hand-made felt hearts that were stitched around the outside for decoration that are given (in a memento) to people who have experienced some kind of tragedy. It was all a very amazing experience.


Saturday found us wandering through Gardner Village. There are about 20-30 little specialty stores each with something really fun to explore. Lunch at the bakery was awesome too. Afterwards, we spent time at Roberts Craft selecting beads to make jewelry.


We spent Saturday night making picture frames with scenes from the Saviors life placed perfectly around the mat. The frame will house "The Living Christ" which is the general authorities testimony that Christ lives.

Sunday we attended 'The Spoken Word" and then went to Carolines house (John's Mom) who is on a mission at Temple Square and made jewelry until Marie had to catch her plane.

None of us brought a camera so you will just have to imagine us with our umbrellas, skipping th rough the rain with big smiles on our faces as we enjoyed a wonderul 4 days together.