Saturday February 23

We all got up bright and early this morning, and as soon as Daddy got home from work, and we headed to the church to clean the building.

The kids thought it was just the greatest thing.

It always amazes me how quickly it gets done when everyone works together.

Then we got home and I rushed to get myself ready for our wards Woman's Conference at 9:30.

It was a wonderful conference.

There were two speakers and several musical numbers.

One of the speakers lost both her husband and her baby in the same car accident caused by a drunk driver, that also almost took her own life.
She said it wasn't fair that the world kept turning as if nothing had happened, when her world just stopped.

Her world was gone.
She spoke about being a light for others.

The only way to pull herself out of her depression was to reach out and help others who have felt what she felt.
She eventually came to forgive and form an incredible friendship with the drunk driver that killed her family.
She because a light in his life when he needed light.
The other speaker, Tyler Castleton, told a story about a man in a war zone...(not sure when) found a broken mirror on the road, and tried to pick up peices to put it back together....but couldn't.

Instead he chose to pick up the biggest peice.

  He rubbed it on stones to soften the sides and turned it into a circle.
It became a game for him to reflect light into the darkest places he could find.
That is what life is about.

Reflecting light, the light of the gospel, into the lives of those who are in the darkest places.

*****

Tonight we got to go on a birthday celebration date with the Terry's and a group of friends.

It is Brad's birthday today, and Jenni's birthday tomorrow.

We went to PF Changs, yummy :)

The group left to go play some games at a house....but we headed home.

Dad had a rough night last night and he was pretty dead tired.