Blogging During Sunday Morning Conference

12:03p: Clay Christiansen is my hero.

12:04p: Oh, those blue dresses.

12:09p: Child's Prayer arrangement. WOW! The subtlety, the nuance, so restrained. The joint verse has NEVER sounded this good.

12:13p: Kicking it off with Eyring and Cook!

12:16p: What a touching tribute to President Faust from President Eyring.

12:18p: "Have I seen the hand of God reaching out to touch us, or our children, or our family this day?"

12:28p: An amazing talk on God's hand in our lives. From forgiveness, atonement, and sacrament to the small daily things.

12:29p: Thursday afternoon. Very little warning. Elder Maxwell to Elder Cook, when the latter was called as a General Authority in 1996, the key to Church service is being "comfortable in bearing witness of the divinity of the Savior."

12:33p: Three day's notice only allows for preparing a testimony and those things which are already written in your heart. The perfect introduction to a new Apostle.

12:45p: Live by faith, not by fear.

1:04p: What?! One verse? Clara knows that song.

1:05p: Christoffel. Now that's a name.

1:19p: Forgiveness from sin is not the purpose of the gospel. Overcoming the desire to sin is the purpose of the gospel.

1:26p: Clean hands vs. pure heart. What an insightful talk, opening the scriptures. And he replaced Elder Maxwell.

1:30p: God So Loved The World. It's refreshing to have traditional choral music (and the Primary music from early) alongside the hymns.

1:33p: A soloist sings the same song. The orchestra places the same piece. A speaker is expected to come up with something new each time he talks. President Hinckley - 1. The rest of the world - 0. He is sooooo winning.

1:50p: Unlike recent years, that was not a 'good-bye'.

1:51p: Organ duets rock.

1:55p: The choir's amen brought a tear to my eye. And the organ part at the end of the hymn. Kristin turned to me, "Did you hear that?" Oh, I did.

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