Youth Conference Extravaganza!

This past weekend was Youth Conference for our ward. Being in the Young Women's presidency, I was very involved and also had volunteered Jarad (thanks babe!) to be involved as well. After all the planning and prep, it was fun to see the weekend come and go off successfully!

Friday, we met at the church early to start our spiritual day of youth conference. We went to the Salt Lake Temple, the Ogden Temple and the Jordan River Temple do to baptisms for the dead. It was such a cool experience to see the youth getting baptized and just enjoying the spirit of the temples.

That evening, our ward had a Summer Luau at the park complete with roasted pigs (head and all) and island dancers! After the Luau, all of the girls and leaders, me included, headed to Josie's (YW president) house for a sleepover!! We played games, ate tons of junk food, giggled till our sides hurt and watched Penelope (super cute movie by the way). After getting a few hours of sleep, we got up and had a camp certification clinic for a few hours in the morning. Then we all went home to rest for a few hours, then met back up and headed to Murray park.

Murray park was a blast! The boys set up a huge slip & slide down a very steep hill and we enjoyed that for hours! We also had some water balloons and Jarad got hit int he stomach and now has a welt! I hadn't been on a slip & slide since my childhood but it was just as fun as I remember!!!

Sunday we concluded youth conference with a testimony meeting at the Bishop's house. It was good to hear the youth talk about the gospel and their friendships with each other. Youth conference was a big success I would say! And here are some fun photo's from the weekend.


The Crew outside the Jordan River Temple


Emily, Amelia & Melissa at the sleepover.


Kelli- mmmmm...more popcorn!


Me & Jarad getting ready for the slip & slide.


Jarad enjoying the ride.


Some of the girls & I (I'm in the white tank) slippin' & a slidin'