On Friday, everyone rotated between workshops and playing the "Game For Life", based on the board game. Volunteers from both stakes came to help the youth play. The gym was set up as a giant board game, and the youth went through, graduating from college (or dropping out), getting married, buying cars, arranging insurance, having kids (I think the largest family ended up being 8-9 children), putting kids through school and missions, trying to stay of debt (or not), etc. Unfortunately, it also included a fair number of divorces, car crashes, terminal illnesses, going to jail, children going astray... It was fun to have so many people from the stakes come to interact with the youth, and I think that the kids learned a lot. I heard several people talk about how they wished they had remembered to pay tithing, how expensive they found it to support kids, how useful an education was, how much easier it was to have a spouse to depend on while they were going through the game, how quickly debt accumulates if you're not paying attention, how they noticed that they couldn't take any of the money they had saved up when they died, but they could take blessings and memories.
Friday evening ended with another dance, then on Saturday we all had breakfast together, followed by a testimony meeting. The conference ended up being a tremendous amount of work by a lot of people to put the conference all together, but it was great to see so much cooperation between so many, and to realize that everyone was willing to help- teaching workshops, helping with the game, organizing and providing meals, driving youth back and forth, housing them for the nights... I'm reminded again and again how things work out when we all work together and the Lord is behind it all. I feel absolutely confident that He had his hand in this.
A few pictorial highlights...
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