Fun Fun Fun..

Warning! This post is a picture OVERLOAD! But these past weekends were a blast!

So once upon a time, my roommate Mi'kel and I decided that we wanted to go to Conference and see if we could get in. After class on Friday we headed up to Salt Lake. We went right to the temple and did some baptisms. We had a really neat experience in there, and can't wait to go back. The temple is such an awesome place.. so everyone go! We went to the Gateway and ate with some friends. Then we spent the night at her Grandma's.

The next day, Saturday, we headed up to Temple Square. We met up with Chris Andrews, Tyler Platt, Eric Palmer, and Bailey Andrews to watch Conference. We waited outside the Tabernacle and saw the Roylances. It was very fun to see them!

We watched the first session here, in the Tabernacle. I can't believe that the whole Church used to fit in the building. It's so small! The Church has grown so much.

After the first session we went over to the reflection pool to do a little of this, and try to get some tickets for the next session. We sat for awhile and got tickets!

So this is where we got to watch the second session. I love being in the Conference Center, it is such a beautiful place and the Spirit was so strong. The whole Conference made me want to be better at serving those around me and loving my life. I always feel rejuvenated after Conference.

While we were waiting at the reflection pool we ran into the Begesons. I was talking to Mattie and she was telling me how they were looking for Elder Coulston and I told her to tell him hi if she saw him. Not joking, two minutes later, I look over into the crowd and this is what I saw:

So we of course talked to him for awhile. We took a ton of pictures with him.

I broke the rules a little bit..

I'm happy to report that Elder Coulston is doing great on his mission. I think he told us he has been in the field for 9 weeks and is doing great. He spoke to Chris and I in spanish and sounds good. He taught us part of the first discussion and about a pass-along-card, he's a great missionary. He looked so happy and knows that is where he is supposed to be. It was so fun to see him!

Fast Forward to this weekend. My dad, Zoey, and Tessa came to visit me!! I am such a lucky girl. I love my family soo much and it has been way hard to be away from them. My dad and Zoey couldn't come down with us in August so they both had a free weekend and decided it was time to come see where I live. It worked out that my cousin Sunny and her mom (Aunt Ann) were here too. So, Friday night we had a sleepover in my dorm. Here's Lindsay (Jess' sister), Zoey, and Sunny before we started our movie.

The sleepover ended up being me, Jess, Zoey, Tess, Sunny, Mi'kel, Lindsay, and Jaime (another of Jess' sisters). We all somehow fit in Jess and my room. I don't know how, but it was a ton of fun. We stayed up doing "true laugh" and laughing super hard. It was seriously the best to have a sleepover with my sisters again. I miss ours at home, and we missed having Megan here as well.

Tess is losing her front teeth. It got pretty darn loose while she was here. It will be our before we know it!

My dad had to buy new sunglasses so we went to Cabella's. Oh man, Tess was in heaven. If you know Tess, you know that she is animal queen. She knows so much about animals and can tell you random facts about the weirdest animals. We walked around the store and she told me all about all the animals. She did have a tough time understanding how they got them to stay still, even when they were dead. On Saturday my dad took her to the Bean Museum (full of taxidermy animals) while Zoey and I went to a crazy Mary Kay party:) Overall it was a great two weekends. I've been so busy and they go by way too fast. Thanks family for coming! I needed to see you, 5 weeks till I get to go home again!!

Lilly