Youth Conference

The first weekend of March Caleb and Connor were able to go to youth conference.  It was held in Alamo which is about an hour and half from here.  This is the first youth conference for both of these boys.  They left here about 4 and then met up with the kids from the Alamo area, had a dinner of Hawaiian haystacks, and then held a big combined "sock hop".  The kids all took their shoes off and got to dance in their socks.  I heard it was an incredibly stinky gym that night!  The girls from the stake slept at the church and the boys slept out at the church farm where they were going to have a big service project the next day.  After a breakfast of cereal, breakfast and fruit the real work began. They were all given bright blue t-shirts with the theme of Stand Ye in Holy Places and Be Not Moved on it.  There was brush to cut and haul, barbed wire fencing to move, trees to trim and piles of weeds to burn.  They had a lunch of sandwiches and chips and the kept right on working until about 1:30 in the afternoon.  There was some horsing around going on with all those kids and all that open space!  There were also a few injuries but luckily not our boys!  Connor supervised most of the burning and that was right up his alley!.  Connor actually didn't go up until Saturday morning and he got the great privilege to ride up with our stake president and one of his counselors.  We had two extremely tired and very very dirty boys that came home that afternoon.  I don't have any pictures of them though because I didn't go!  Bummer!