Journey Through the Book of Mormon Youth Conference

The month of July was action packed and it came at us faster than we could record the happenings.   It's the middle of August and this is the first chance I've had to sit down and remember a few of the incredible events our family-- or parts of our family-- got to enjoy.
Abe, Clark, Bethany and Elinor went to a Journey Through the Book of Mormon youth conference July 6 thru the 8th.

They camped and did activities and watched actors perform reenactments of Book of Mormon stories,  I wasn't really sure what to expect and feared it might be a little hokey--- but they really enjoyed it and found it to be very moving and inspiring.  Abe played the part of Mormon, the editor of the Book of Mormon, so to speak.  He was basically a narrator who opened and closed all of the vignettes.   Here are Mormon and Moroni (Abe and the President Neilson)

 A picture of Abinadi and wicked King Noah and his priests.

We have some really great youth in our ward and our kids enjoy them so much.  I am very thankful for dedicated leaders who sacrifice their time to create these great experiences for our children.

Here is Mormon and King Benjamin and the Sons of Mosiah.

King Benjamin address his people while they listened from their tents.

All the youth reported the moment when the actor portraying Christ appears was a very powerful, moving experience.  

The stake had gone to so much work to decorate the cultural hall to look like Old Jerusalem that the Stake Primary put on an activity for the Primary children after the youth took off for their camp.  The culminating part of this Book of Mormon blitz, if you will, was the Stake Conference meeting today.  Finally the adults got in on the action!  Our very own Bethany was the youth speaker in Stake Conference today.  She spoke on obedience in the Book of Mormon and she did very well.  She worked so hard on her talk and is feeling a great sense of relief this evening.