I regret not having posted for a few days. I have pretty much given up on the notion of writing in my blog on an every other day basis. This was a busy week and on top of it all I came down with whatever bug is currently going around. Kind of a sore throat, stuffy nose kind of thing; Not as miserable as I could be, but certainly not as happy-go-lucky as I would like to be.
I have been taking this stuff called Cold-eez...that is supposed to shorten the duration of your cold. Its a zinc thing. D likes using them, but I have pretty much found that they make my tongue feel numb and nothing tastes good for the next several hours. I also tried sucrets-which D also says work great. (No I didn't try them at the same time...) but they are even WORSE about making your tongue numb. I think that a dentist could drill on you after you had one of those and you might not notice. Yes, they do make your throat feel better. That is because they have an oral anesthetic as the main ingredient.
This weekend was also General Conference for church. For those of you who are not LDS we have General Conference twice a year, and we get to watch or listen to a broadcast from Salt Lake and get to hear the Apostles and the Prophet speak as well as other church authorities. Its something that I always look forward to. We could go and watch it at the church, or if we had cable we could tune into it there. We don't have cable and we have a hard time keeping the boys settled for four hours two days in a row. (Conference goes for two hours in the morning, a two hour break and then another two hours in the afternoons on Saturday and Sunday) I got to hear many wonderful talks this weekend and they have me reflecting on being a better person and making some changes that I need to make. There were a few interruptions and such with the boys, so I wasn't able to get everything out of it that I wanted to. I also had a hard time getting up this morning because of being sick and missed some of the talks. The church website already has most of the sessions of conference available to be listened to or viewed (in English) at http://www.lds.org/conference/sessions/display/0,5239,49-1-646,00.html . I can even listen to them in 38 other languages plus ASL (if I had a faster internet connection.) Its nice to know that I can go online any time I want to be uplifted and listen to the Prophet of God and to the Apostles who are special witnesses of Christ. There are sessions of conference back to 1997 online, so there are plenty of talks to choose from, and there are many other talks from Church Education Firesides and other resources in the archives. I even found six years worth of Christmas devotionals! I think that D and I are going to make a habit of listening to something from the broadcast archives each week. For those interested the archives can be found at http://www.lds.org/broadcast/archive/0,7298,510-1,00.html . Its a wonderful thing to me that the technology is there for the Conferences to be broadcast all over the world and in many languages. It really helps to tie the church together and to make it a worldwide church. I like thinking about the many LDS people in Africa, South America, Russia and many other countries watching and listening to conference in their own languages. I also love that their Sunday School lessons and other church lessons are the same as ours, only in their own languages. It is a comfort to me that anywhere I go in the world, the church will be the same.
I have been taking this stuff called Cold-eez...that is supposed to shorten the duration of your cold. Its a zinc thing. D likes using them, but I have pretty much found that they make my tongue feel numb and nothing tastes good for the next several hours. I also tried sucrets-which D also says work great. (No I didn't try them at the same time...) but they are even WORSE about making your tongue numb. I think that a dentist could drill on you after you had one of those and you might not notice. Yes, they do make your throat feel better. That is because they have an oral anesthetic as the main ingredient.
This weekend was also General Conference for church. For those of you who are not LDS we have General Conference twice a year, and we get to watch or listen to a broadcast from Salt Lake and get to hear the Apostles and the Prophet speak as well as other church authorities. Its something that I always look forward to. We could go and watch it at the church, or if we had cable we could tune into it there. We don't have cable and we have a hard time keeping the boys settled for four hours two days in a row. (Conference goes for two hours in the morning, a two hour break and then another two hours in the afternoons on Saturday and Sunday) I got to hear many wonderful talks this weekend and they have me reflecting on being a better person and making some changes that I need to make. There were a few interruptions and such with the boys, so I wasn't able to get everything out of it that I wanted to. I also had a hard time getting up this morning because of being sick and missed some of the talks. The church website already has most of the sessions of conference available to be listened to or viewed (in English) at http://www.lds.org/conference/sessions/display/0,5239,49-1-646,00.html . I can even listen to them in 38 other languages plus ASL (if I had a faster internet connection.) Its nice to know that I can go online any time I want to be uplifted and listen to the Prophet of God and to the Apostles who are special witnesses of Christ. There are sessions of conference back to 1997 online, so there are plenty of talks to choose from, and there are many other talks from Church Education Firesides and other resources in the archives. I even found six years worth of Christmas devotionals! I think that D and I are going to make a habit of listening to something from the broadcast archives each week. For those interested the archives can be found at http://www.lds.org/broadcast/archive/0,7298,510-1,00.html . Its a wonderful thing to me that the technology is there for the Conferences to be broadcast all over the world and in many languages. It really helps to tie the church together and to make it a worldwide church. I like thinking about the many LDS people in Africa, South America, Russia and many other countries watching and listening to conference in their own languages. I also love that their Sunday School lessons and other church lessons are the same as ours, only in their own languages. It is a comfort to me that anywhere I go in the world, the church will be the same.
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