On Halloween weekend, we were able to go home for my Dad's Stake Conference in the Panguitch Utah Stake. He was being released after 10 years as a Stake President. In those 10 years I've never been able to be there to hear him speak and all of my siblings were going to be there so I was really excited to go. Brett was also able to help his parents move to Hurricane so it was a good weekend.
I wanted to write down what my dad said in his talk's before I forget.
The theme of the conference was missionary work and Elder Snow from the Quorum of the 70 and Elder Dane Leavitt were there. Dad talked a lot about his mission (Sydney Australia) and there were stories I've never heard him tell before. My favorite was when he talked about getting into the home of a Church of England minister. His companion was Elder Hill from Moses Lake, WA. He said he was a wrestler and wasn't a very big guy but he was very wiry. He said they were in the middle of a discussion and there was a bit of arguing back and forth. Dad said he was just sitting there watching this whole thing take place. He said right in the middle of the discussion his companion stopped mid-sentence and paused. Then he bore his testimony.
Dad started to cry from the pulpit and said, "The Church of England minister was not converted, but I was".
It was so powerful to me to hear this experience. I don't know why. Maybe it's because Elder Hill has no idea how he has touched a life and in turn my life has been changed forever. I wish I could find him and tell him.
My dad has loved working with the people in his Stake. During the closing song in the Saturday night session (Go Forth With Faith), he sat on the stand and sobbed. I've never seen him do that before and when we all noticed what was happening we all were sobbing too.
On Sunday he only spoke for a minute but he bore a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and then he told a little bit about some of the experiences he has had with the new Stake President, Brady Eyre. He said that when they had had that long, hard day on the trek and found out that their house had been flooded, Brady and his wife offered to let them sleep in their blow-up mattress in the back of their trailer so that they could get a better night's sleep.
We also had a bunch of people that he served with write letters to him. We all did too. We put them in a book and then surprised him with it. I thought he would be embarrassed by that and would have not liked that we did that but when we gave it to him he started to cry, thanked us, and then said, "this is really neat". He spent the rest of the night reading the letters and crying. Then my mom did the same. I made copies to make books for me and my siblings. They are so neat to have because some of them tell about specific experiences but they all express love to my parents for their service.
I've said it before and I will say it again-I LOVE MY PARENTS!
The theme of the conference was missionary work and Elder Snow from the Quorum of the 70 and Elder Dane Leavitt were there. Dad talked a lot about his mission (Sydney Australia) and there were stories I've never heard him tell before. My favorite was when he talked about getting into the home of a Church of England minister. His companion was Elder Hill from Moses Lake, WA. He said he was a wrestler and wasn't a very big guy but he was very wiry. He said they were in the middle of a discussion and there was a bit of arguing back and forth. Dad said he was just sitting there watching this whole thing take place. He said right in the middle of the discussion his companion stopped mid-sentence and paused. Then he bore his testimony.
Dad started to cry from the pulpit and said, "The Church of England minister was not converted, but I was".
It was so powerful to me to hear this experience. I don't know why. Maybe it's because Elder Hill has no idea how he has touched a life and in turn my life has been changed forever. I wish I could find him and tell him.
On Sunday he only spoke for a minute but he bore a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and then he told a little bit about some of the experiences he has had with the new Stake President, Brady Eyre. He said that when they had had that long, hard day on the trek and found out that their house had been flooded, Brady and his wife offered to let them sleep in their blow-up mattress in the back of their trailer so that they could get a better night's sleep.
We also had a bunch of people that he served with write letters to him. We all did too. We put them in a book and then surprised him with it. I thought he would be embarrassed by that and would have not liked that we did that but when we gave it to him he started to cry, thanked us, and then said, "this is really neat". He spent the rest of the night reading the letters and crying. Then my mom did the same. I made copies to make books for me and my siblings. They are so neat to have because some of them tell about specific experiences but they all express love to my parents for their service.
I've said it before and I will say it again-I LOVE MY PARENTS!
The Boshell's, Dad & Mom, John & Mavis Torgerson, Jean & Denny Orton, and Susan & Gary Morgan.
Denny made us all laugh when they were first put in. He took an OLD Piute baseball cap and an OLD Panguitch baseball cap, cute them in 1/2 and then sewed them together. I told my dad he needs to give it to the new Stake President but I don't think he can part with it.
In Lexi's letter to my dad she mentioned how he used to hang them from the rafters at Grandma's and how she always trusted him to get her back down. My girls didn't know what that meant so I had to show them. Mia did NOT want Grandpa to let go.
Hanging out at the shop and enjoying LOTS of candy from Bishop!
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