Day 10

I would like to tell you about the two church service related events that I participated in. At 9am we were set to have sacrament meeting. They said that there were about 7,000 in attendance (see pictures below). Elder Robert D. Hales, one of the Twelve Apostles came to Jamboree and our meeting. He spoke to the Young Men and had a great message. I will post some of the notes I took later. We had about 65 Priests blessing the sacrament and I don't know how many pass the sacrament but would have to estimate between 80 and 100. In the evening we had a fireside with President Beck, the General Young Men's President and his two counselors Larry Gibson and Adrian Ochoa. They all spoke but we learned from President Beck to Learn, Act and Share. He had quite a few young men come up to the stand to talk about what they learned in sacrament meeting from Elder Hales or to commit to do some of the things he discuss. Both meetings were terrific. I also talked to David Larson a former member of our ward 20+ years ago. The more we talked the more we remembered each other. I told mom about it and she didn't have any problem remembering them. After the fireside I spoke with Sister Beck and she is going to call mom (y'all share the same first name) to talk to you about your Philmont Training Center experience. Get excited.

In between those two meetings I worked and also had some time off to visit Brown Sea Island, a recreation of the Island that were the early Boy Scouts under Lord Baden Powell were able to go to camp. They had it setup like turn of the century life. I also went to the museum that is set up here.

Well, it is late and I am going to sign off after adding a few pictures. Y'all have a great week. I missed a weekender this week. Skyler, have a safe trip home tomorrow.

Here are some of the pictures. Captions will be added later (maybe tomorrow).








What a special experience today was. The weather was very pleasant and the temperature hovered between 78 and 82 degrees. Most of the day was cloudy which made for a very comfortable day.