Youth Conference

Since my mom and possibly my sisters would like to hear about Youth Conference I'll just do a blog post for everyone.
So Thursday morning we left the stake center around 630 and were on the bus for around 11 hours including our lunch break. I don't think the leaders thought it out very much because there were around 180 people trying to buy lunch in a food court with 3 resturants. I sat next to the same 8 people. At first I sat by Leslie but we switched and I sat by Jenn for the majority of both bus rides. It kinda looked like this

Bo Bleyl Chase Bleyl Jennifer Anderson ME
Leslie Anderson Rachel Wilcox Mitchell Aldrige Jeremy Moore

On the way back I switched with Leslie because Mitchell would put his legs on Chases chair across the aisle and I put my legs over Rachel and put them on mitchells knee/legs and rachel layed on my stomach and I leaned on the window. It sounds confusing but it was probably the most comfortable I was the whole bus ride. I also sat next to Mitchell for awhile because Mitchell and Jeremy's seat had the most leg room and since Mitch is 6'6'' he automatically got it the whole time but I finally convinced Jeremy to switch and it felt so good to stretch my legs. I spent most of Youth Conference on the bus so we had a lot of fun messing around and eating lots of food.














On Friday we went to see all of the sites. Our first stop was at the Hill Cumorah. I never realized how massive the hill is. Mitchell and David were messing with each other all week so everyone called them David and Goliath.

Then we went to the Grandin Printing Press and saw where the first 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon were published. It was really interesting. Did you know that Mr. Grandin wasn't a member and that only Bibles and Encylopedias were supposed to be bound in leather but Joseph Smith had the BOM bound in Leather because it was just as important. Sweet stuff.

After lunch we went to the Smith Farm and the Sacred Grove. The bus drivers ended up touring that with us and constantly asked questions. After they came out of the sacred grove they asked for a Book of Mormon was really awesome. The Sacred Grove was incredible. The Smith's house was so small. I felt bad for Mitchell and Chase because they hit their heads really bad walking around inside. After everyone was done walking around in the Sacred Grove we went to the Hill Cumorah pagent but had to wait like three hours so we played games and rachel took pictures of chase for almost 30 minutes.

On Saturday we woke up early and went to the Peter Witmore Farm in Fayette where we had a testimony meeting and Elder Cook from the 70 spoke to us. After we toured the farm where we had to go into another log cabin. My favorite quote was when mitchell saw the stairs and was like "Oh good these stairs are so much big." DUMB. Then we ate lunch and departed for Richmond. It was pretty fun we watched Madagascar 1 and 2, Princess Bride, Up, Princess and the Frog, and Narnia.