BYU Women's Conference

I just got back from BYU Women's Conference Saturday night, it was really fun.  I went with my sister in law, Tonya and some of her friends, there were six of us in total.  We left on Tuesday and stopped in SLC before heading to Provo.  We did some shopping at the new mall downtown and spent some time on Temple Square.

We laughed a lot, like pretty much the whole time.  We lived like students in the dorms, I couldn't imagine having to live like that for any extended period of time, a couple of days were barely manageable for me.

The Conference was great, there were a lot of great, inspiring speakers.  The thing that surprised me was how disrespectful some ladies were, the conference commitee asked us to follow a couple rules while we were there.  For example, don't leave a session early especially while someone is talking and don't save seats.  People were always getting up and leaving with 5-10 minutes left, just so that they could get a head start on the next class in another building or area (we had to wait in line and sometimes the classes would fill up).  I thought it was so rude that people would do that, so to give them the benefit of the doubt, we had a standing joke that those people probably had diarrhea.  When they would leave, we would say, "Oh, they must have diarrhea." One time we were meeting up with our friends because we skipped a session to go shopping and we thought we would catch them as one of the sessions was ending.  We saw some older ladies walking from the Marroitt Center and the session hadn't ended yet, one of the girls yelled out, "There are some diarrhea ladies!"  We laughed and laughed.  But what I couldn't believe was that at the very last session of the conference Elder Anderson was speaking and people were walking out early.  That really bugged me.

And as for saving seats, I often walked to the front of the sessions and sat in seats that people  were "saving".   We ended up getting some great seats.

One thing that I noticed was how hilly it is around BYU,  my friends walked so fast and must have been in great shape.  I will definitely be better prepared next year.

I loved the atmosphere and making new friends, I would like to go again, maybe next year.