CONFERENCE WEEKEND

Dear Family,

General Conference was great and all the activities with it were also outstanding.
We went to my missionary reunion from my mission in the 1950's. They have been meting regularly but this may be the last one. Saw the missionary i went over on the boat with and my first companion and other companions. Mom and I will probably have our mission reunion in the spring of next year.

The sessions of General Conference were terrific and Iwant to study the talks when they are printed. All sessions were terrific. You can't pick favorite talks but I did like Elder Ballards talk and counsel very much. I added the audio clip. I had been fishing with him in the past but not fly fishing. He gave a great analogy. They were all so good and uplifting with a plea to the youth to keep on the straight and narrow.

We had quite a group come up for the Priesthood broadcast in out ward house. John Hickey and his boys came as did Mike and his crew with friends and brother in laws, Doug and his boys with his brother and law and his boys. We picked up Paul H. jr and he joined us. We filled an entire row in the middle section of the chapel.

After the meeting we went home for the traditional semi annual Post Priesthood Meeting feed. We used to go to restaurants but they are so filled and the food is better at home anyway. Other people showed up a well with friends of friends and we counted 22 that came for a rib eye roast, smoked ribs, dutch oven ribs with secret ingredient that Doug brought. He also brought Kristina's banana cream pie, Emily's funeral potatoes, corn on the cob completed the meal and they completely ate an 11 pound roast and it was so good. We had a little review of the Priesthood meeting talks by the young guys and they did real well. So much fun!


Sunday we had three visits and ti was so great. Mary and Mark and their two great kids plus there new highly pedigreed German short hair hunting dog, Gunner der Jaeger came up from Alpine. They came back to run int he St. George marathon and both finished well. So neat to see Mary and her crew and we had a little lunch.

Then we had a visit from Switzerland. Pascal and Nicole Hoffman, both of them served in our mission were visiting conference. Pascal was my great Secretary and AP and we recruited his sister to fill a mini mission with Steffi Meyne in Munich. She just finished a mission on Temple Square in Salt Lake. So great to see them; they all seem like family. We had Wuerstli und Sauerbrot with Sauserkraut for lunch and talked about dating.

Then Roy's daughters, Lexie and Hanna came up from BYU and ti was so great to see them as well. They are great grand daughters and seemed to be doing so well. Mom loaded them up with food for the condo. We had such joy n that Sunday.

Well we are going to Germany on Wednesday and not spending enough time over there but what time we have will be great. I asked what we should bring Steffi and she wanted Reeses Pieces. We asked the Dzierzons what they wanted us to bring and they said, Jiff Peanut Butter with nuts. So great!

More later.. still nervous about my German Fireside. We will meet some of our German missionaries there next Sunday.

Alles gute.. love Dad and Mom