Time Out For Women

Time Out For Women was wonderful. I loved it. I was alittle worried at first because I didn't know what to expect. Was it going to be like Conference? NO! We all "WooHoo" and clapped and cheered. Last night we were there from 6:45 -9:30. We are were priveleged to hear from Sister Chieko Okazaki. She was the 1st Counselor in the General Relief Society Presidency from 1990-1997. She is 82 years old and a great speaker. She spoke on "What is a correct Principles?", "How do you teach correct Principles?" and "How do you let them govern themselves?"

Then Hilary Weeks performed for us. I have to say I had never heard of her before but she is amazing. She writes her music and plays the piano. She would sing a few songs in between speakers and then she spoke telling us about her music and how it comes to her.

Then we heard from Mark Mabry. He is a photographer. He did a slide show on his work, "The Reflections of Christ." It was amazing. When he was speaking he was alittle distracted because his wife is in AZ having contractions. So she was due any minute. But he told us how he came to his project and how he became a better person for it.

Today we were there from 9:00 to 3:45. Cherie Call was our Musical Presenter today. We have heard of her she does a lot of EFY songs. She played the piano and the guitar. So just like Hilary Weeks she song in between speakers and then told us of how she came up with her songs. Shelby and I bought 2 of her cds and she auto graphed them for us. She is very kind and down to earth.

Emily Watts was such a fun speaker to listen too. She spoke on personnal appearance and how kids "ripen" at different paces.

Micheal Wilcox was very interesting. He was very scriptual and doctrinal. Everything he said was connected to a scripture. I wish I could know my scriptures that well.

Wendy Ulrich was my favorite speaker. She talked about the difference between a sin and a weakness. Sins are a delibrate error that we know is wrong. A weakness is emotion, inadequcy, illness or temptation. Did Jesus have sins? No he is perfect. Does he have weaknesses? Yes because he has a body. I ended up buying her book and she signed it for me.

Emily Freeman was our last speaker and spoke on the loaves and fishes story. Related to Abundance. And abundance equals miracles.

I am so glad we were able to go. It was a great experience. And us girls got to bond.