So General Conference is coming up this weekend. This thread is just for people to post how they get ready to hear the Prophet, Apostles, and other General Authorities words.
One way that has been suggested is to prepare some questions that you are seeking answers for, write them down and then attend Conference with the intent to find the answers you need.
One question, or issue I need to work on is shareing the gospel. That has always been an issue for me. Do you have any questions that you would like answered, or topics you hope to see adressed at this Conference? Feel free to post about it.
Wake up in morning... because wife is screaming at me... stagger downstairs... with blankey... cuddle up to big pillow on sofa... go back to sleepy...
--Ray
Ah, yes...my biannual tradition. Nice to see others participating. It is much easier now with the BYU channel on the satelite. Back in the old days I had to crawl into the ward buildling like that.
Just to show what a geek I am, I saw "GenCon" and thought not "General Conference" but "Dungeons and Dragons convention". If you've never been a D&D afficianado, you won't get it.
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I always wished I could go to GenCon as a kid growing up in California... but it was always held in one of those negligible, unimportant states that could be blown up and no one would even care... Like Ohio or Iowa, or something like that...
--Ray
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Just to show what a geek I am, I saw "GenCon" and thought not "General Conference" but "Dungeons and Dragons convention". If you've never been a D&D afficianado, you won't get it.
D&D! That brings back memories! My parents had forbidden me to play D&D back in the 80s because some kid had offed himself over getting his Elf Lord wasted. That and going to a Evangelical Christain private school and they got all the info on how evil it was. My friends and I devised a way around the no D&D rules. We purchased the lead figures, painted them (now it was an art project), purchased the dice, and made our own game that was basically D&D but without calling it D&D and without anything that said D&D on it.
My personal favorite though was Axis and Allies. I played once a huge game of Axis and Allies that a local club set up on the floor of a local high school library. I was given command of a couple half tracks, some infantry, and a couple machine guns. We were playing the battle from the movie A Bridge Too Far and had a couple of the bridges on the floor of the library, terrain, buildings, etc. I was there all day before I finally got to use my troops and then they were slaughtered and I had to leave. They started at like 5 am and later my friend told me they went until like 1 am in the morning of the third day.
I think I went off topic....sorry about that....must be my short attention span virus that I picked up from Ray. Ray, please don't spread your germs around.
arbilad wrote: Just to show what a geek I am, I saw "GenCon" and thought not "General Conference" but "Dungeons and Dragons convention". If you've never been a D&D afficianado, you won't get it.
Well, I have to say I thought it meant something to do with Genealogy or something. But on the topic of conventions, I shamefully admit (with head bowed in deep shame) that I did go to a ST convention once... got free passes as I was managing a company that was making things for one of the sponsers of the convention... they changed their order mid-stream after production had started, and provided us some free passes as compensation for the order change.
Now that was perhaps the weirdest thing I had ever experienced in my life... But, Mrs. Cat Herder and I got to see a bunch of people that we shouldn't have been able to see, like the dude who played Spock's father and several other minor actor / characters in the autograph room, the lady who played Dee Troit, the guy who played Worf (through an open door to the auditorium for a minute), and we even ended up with a "private" (as in there were no other people in the room other than the actor's fan club pres.) impromptu (as in he had been walking by and noticed his fan club pres in the room and stopped in to say hi to him) audience with the actor who played Gowron (he even gave us personalized signed photos... ooooooo.... aaaaaahhhh! That was a no-no because we should have paid the convention like $10 each for the privilege of standing in line for a photo with his mere signature on it, not with our names and a little message... obviously, that must have been the reason his character ended up getting written out of a continually recurring basis in the ST canon, because he didn't stick by the fan convention bylaws...). The funnest thing about the visit to this gathering of strangeness (besides feeling uncomfortable because of all the people in strange costumes) was seeing a local news celebrity walking down the hallway in his news caster suit wearing a communicator pin and finding a spoof paperback series of books called Star Wreck at the vendor's section. Anyway, I can honestly say I've boldly gone where no manly man has gone.
Hmmm... now, back to General Conference... Ray, dem's almost fittin' wurdz to say Ohio be an unimportant state! Without Ohio, there would be no General Conference... without Ohio, there would be no Buckeyes... without Ohio, there would be no almost heart shaped state below Lake Erie... without Ohio, there would be no Cat Herder... (you can diss Iowa all ya want, but mind you without Iowa, our ability to readily consume pork as a nation would probably be lower...) (see even Green Silent Ninja agrees!).
We have the semiannual external cleanup of the ward building scheduled this Saturday morning prior to the first session of conference. It wasn't supposed to be until next month, but someone changed it... oh yeah, makes sense to me. Let's move it up a month so we can have maximum number of people not show up due to it being a Saturday to begin with where folks need to get stuff done at home AND it being a conference weekend where, if the men are being 100% dutiful, they will be sitting in the chapel or in front of their TV at home for 6 hours watching conference. Can you guess where I will be? Probably cutting the lawn or doing yard work at home as it is the only day of the week I really have free to do it... let's hope the grass is dry before noon when the first session starts and Mrs. Cat Herder goes to work...
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Catherder, I don't know whether I should be shocked or sickened by your telling of the Star Trek Convention experience. You need some serious help man.
Back to conference:
I am ashamed to admit this but I have serious problems when it comes to watching conference. I don't have a problem with the messages or the speakers so it is nothing like that. I have a hard time forcing myself to watch five two hour sessions over the course of two days for a total of 10 hours of sitting and watching television!!!!!!!! Now I realize that it technically isn't like the other mind numbing television but it still is a lot of sitting doing nothing.
I realize that most folks have no problem sitting through long meetings but it drives me crazy. I feel like I'm going to crawl out of my skin if I sit for more than 30 minutes without getting up and walking around. Even a long sacrament meeting can be pure torture. I'm not ADD or ACDC or anything like that. I have only been able to watch all ten hours at once at one time in my life and I nearly went out of my mind the last two sessions. Now I would have no problem if I could lift weights while I watch it unfortunately I don't have the TV where my weight set is. I read the talks in the Ensign with no problem but I usually only read one or two talks at a time. I have tried stretching during the hymns but that usually only fixes the problem for about five minutes.
I'm pretty much the same way at work moving around all day and working on three different things at the same time. For example, right now I'm listening to my Lord of the Rings soundtrack, submitting a customer's credit application, talking to other managers, and posting this at the same time.
Anything that you can do with your hands is a start. You could also take up whittling, as long as your wife doesn't mind the wood shavings on the floor. You could get some light dumbells and do low weight - high repetition workouts.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Actually I listen but generally look forward to the written transcripts later. That way I can think about what is being said with more depth. I can't recount the times when I wanted to go back and rehear something that was said later in the talk and make the connections between the two points in the talk. I wish I could step out of time and deal with those "ah hah!" moments before the speaker goes on.
Well it looks like it won't be an issue this year since I have to work Saturday. One of my team is going in for surgury to see if they have cancer on Tuesday so I have to come in Saturday and prepaire the payroll info so she can put it in on Monday. Thanks for the suggestions.
But, Mrs. Cat Herder and I got to see a bunch of people that we shouldn't have been able to see, like the dude who played Spock's father and several other minor actor / characters in the autograph room, the lady who played Dee Troit, the guy who played Worf (through an open door to the auditorium for a minute), and we even ended up with a "private" (as in there were no other people in the room other than the actor's fan club pres.) impromptu (as in he had been walking by and noticed his fan club pres in the room and stopped in to say hi to him) audience with the actor who played Gowron (he even gave us personalized signed photos... ooooooo.... aaaaaahhhh! That was a no-no because we should have paid the convention like $10 each for the privilege of standing in line for a photo with his mere signature on it, not with our names and a little message... obviously, that must have been the reason his character ended up getting written out of a continually recurring basis in the ST canon, because he didn't stick by the fan convention bylaws...). The funnest thing about the visit to this gathering of strangeness (besides feeling uncomfortable because of all the people in strange costumes) was seeing a local news celebrity walking down the hallway in his news caster suit wearing a communicator pin and finding a spoof paperback series of books called Star Wreck at the vendor's section. Anyway, I can honestly say I've boldly gone where no manly man has gone.
Without Ohio, there would be no General Conference... without Ohio, there would be no Buckeyes... without Ohio, there would be no almost heart shaped state below Lake Erie... without Ohio, there would be no Cat Herder... (you can diss Iowa all ya want, but mind you without Iowa, our ability to readily consume pork as a nation would probably be lower...) 
(see even Green Silent Ninja agrees!).
or anything like that. I have only been able to watch all ten hours at once at one time in my life and I nearly went out of my mind the last two sessions. Now I would have no problem if I could lift weights while I watch it unfortunately I don't have the TV where my weight set is. I read the talks in the Ensign with no problem but I usually only read one or two talks at a time. I have tried stretching during the hymns but that usually only fixes the problem for about five minutes.
