we watched a talk this evening from last october (2012)'s general conference. it was President Thomas S. Monson's sunday morning talk, "Consider the Blessings."
one of the stories he shared was about the kansas city temple dedication cultural celebration (or whatever the official name was). the plan was for all the youth from all over (who were participating) to convene at the municipal center the morning of the performance. they had been practicing separately and all the small groups were going to learn and practice together the entrances, exits, where to stand, etc. he said there were roughly 3,000 youth! all the different numbers were introduced and connected together by video segments that would be shown on the jumbotron. that morning, however, something was wrong and they couldn't get the jumbotron to work. technicians worked for a while with no success. they lost rehearsal time as the day went on.
"Just an hour before the audience would begin to enter the center, 3,000 youth knelt on the floor and prayed together. They prayed that those working on the Jumbotron would be inspired to know what to do to repair it; they asked their Heavenly Father to make up for what they themselves could not do because of the shortage of time.
Said one who wrote about it afterward, “It was a prayer the youth will never forget, not because the floor was hard, but because the Spirit melted their bones.”
It was not long before one of the technicians came to tell them that the problem had been discovered and corrected. He attributed the solution to luck, but all those youth knew better."
when he said the technician attributed it to luck, he made a funny face/expression that conveyed that it obviously wasn't "luck", but a blessing from their Father in Heaven.
we had lucky charms for breakfast, but i'm happy that we know that all the good things we have in life and every blessing we have comes from our loving Heavenly Father, and it's not just "luck". we receive countless blessings and tender mercies every single day.
we enjoyed celebrating st. patrick's day in our own way, but we will always be blessed, not lucky : )
we had lucky charms for breakfast (special shamrock edition that ended up turning our milk green!)
shamrock cookies that we bought from a young woman in our ward for her camp fundraiser
corned beef and cabbage!!
homemade bread!
chocolate pie!
we wore green (like most other people at church : ) and we love green! : )
i realize that just about everything on this list is food... but we like food : ) and there were other good things that made this a great day as well!
