On being a better, friend, grandmother, and mom

Well, an apology to everyone but Dave and our ward family. Youth Conference was all consuming. We did an Amazing Race with 40 youth and 12 adults. We were all over the Salt Lake valley on Thursday the 25th and on Friday the 26th we hit Utah County. Service, service, and more service, but what the youth had was fun, fun, and more fun. We said afterwards that we should have kept track of our hours. I am sure it would have been over 100 hours for Dave and I alone. I can't even think of how may the Pulsiphers must have spent. Everything went as planned. We had so many blessings that I think I should write a few of them down.

Weather: We had to try our River Adventure, so one week prior to the Conference, we borrowed a raft and headed to the Provo River. Matt, Kathie, and Ammon came along. It rained all the way down to the river, but when we opened the door of the car, it stopped. It was clear during the trial, and as soon as we put the raft away and got into the car, it started raining again. Then, the day of the actual River Adventure, it was pouring rain all the way up the canyon, but as the door opened, once again it stopped. The sky was clear all day and as the last group of kids was getting off the river, the rain began again. I know that the Lord wanted the experience to be what we had hoped and prayed for.

Another small but huge miracle. It took many hours to get all the clues into all the envelopes. Each team had between 27 and 29 clues. Each team was going to different places all the time. So each family's clues had to be done separately and then put together into a box that would be at each location. Not easy. But we finished on Tuesday evening. Wednesday morning I was breathing a sigh of relief and eating my breakfast at the kitchen table. I pulled out one of the schedules and was just thinking of how fun this would be, when an impression came to me. "What time does DI open?" I called to Dave in the computer room. We discovered that it opens at 10 and we had several teams showing up at different DI's in the valley at 9. Well I am grateful to a Heavenly Father who is into details. We had time to redo the clues that needed to be changed and still get them out on Wednesday evening. So, I learned that if Heavenly Father cares about our clues, he must care about each of us individually. I felt his love and care during the conference and was really touched that the youth felt it as well. We had a wonderful experience and I am glad that I could be a part of it!

So, now it is over, and I promise to be a better friend, grandmother, and mom to all of you who have felt the neglect. Love, Sue