Saturday, June 01, 2013

Youth Conference 2013.


Thursday was the day I left to Youth Conference for my stake! My friends and I have been excited to go to this for months and it was finally here!! Our ward met at the stake center at 8am and packed everything in the trailers and coolers and headed off to Mormon Lake.



When we got there we ate a quick lunch and left to hear Brad Wilcox speak. It was an awesome talk and he was hilarious! Afterwards, we went to our classes and those were good too. Then we went to dinner and they were serving Mexican food, it was delicious! We met up with some people we met at night games a few weeks back and it was great! After dinner it was "personal time" and you could basically do anything. So we talked with the same people, walked around, and then went to get ready for the dance.

Pretty much the dance was the best thing EVER. All of our friends agree it was the highlight of the conference and definitely the best time of our lives yet! It was my first dance as a Mia Maid, so it was pretty exciting. They played some awesome dance songs (my favorite: 22^), which was SO fun. And every once in a while they played some slow songs. I danced with two boys that I didn't know and then two boys that I had met at night games. It was pretty much just amazing!

Then that night in our (Jill, Kallee, and I) tent, we talked about everything that had happened that day, like a boy in our ward giving up his chair for us, awkward and great compliments received at the dance, and much more.

Even long after Jill and Kallee went to sleep (including after waking up Kallee to go to the bathroom), I couldn't sleep and I didn't even know why. By the time it was morning I was so tired and when most everyone was up I went to go to the bathroom, I was waiting in the line when all of a sudden I felt nauseous, I sort of knelt down and everything went black for about 2 seconds, so I laid down, there on the ground. One of my leaders came by and got some help. I stayed in a cabin for about 7 hours and then they sent me home with another girl. 

I was pretty sad that I missed the rest of the day, especially testimony meeting, but I was mostly glad I got to go to the dance! I'm still a little sick, with the flu, and earache, pink eye, and a little headache, but I feel a lot better than yesterday.

Anyhow, besides the getting sick part... youth conference was extremely fun, it was just THE best. I loved it!