Thoughts On Conference...And About Life, About Love (You Little Wet Puppy)

(Please keep in mind that the second half of the title must be spoken in a cheesy French accent, a la Steve Martin in "The Pink Panther." Which is where that quote came from. Anyhoo, moving on...)

OK, so I loved Conference a lot. It was very inspiring and just...Conference-y. There were so many good talks and important messages. And a lot of random fun things that happened. To start off, I'll name a few:

• Elder Causse (from the Seventy) giving a good talk, and at the same time, sounding like an awesome cross between the guy in the Dyson vacuum commercials and Steve Martin in "The Pink Panther."
• Two General Authorities in a row during the Sunday Afternoon session having equally awesome South American accents. (And their talks were also very good. There never is a bad talk at Conference.)
• Having the strange and exciting experience of seeing both Jason Alston and Brad Pew pop up on the screen during Priesthood Session. They were singing in the Provo MTC choir, and it was crazy, because when they said where the choir was from, I was thinking, I wonder if I'll know anyone in there?, and about a minute into the first song, there was Jason. (They didn't show him again, but they showed Brad twice.) It was weird to see them on TV and with missionary tags on and everything, but also great because they get the chance to serve the Lord. Coolness!
• The new temples they announced excited me! Especially the Kansas City and Rome ones...now the Costello's will have a temple really close, and it's amazing that there will soon be one in Italy. Go Italy, it's your birthday! (Well, not really--it's a figure of speech--oh, deal with it!)

In terms of spiritual-ness, I really got a lot of President Uchtdorf's talk about hope. It just gave me a lot of comfort. Elder Nelson's talk was comforting to me as well. And Elder Perry talking about Henry David Thoreau (whom I really admire) and basing his talk on that to talk about the spiritual things we need, that was amazing! Since this post is getting too long, I'll wait until my next post to put down some really good quotes that stood out to me from my notes.

In other news...the Variety Show is this Tuesday, at either 7 or 7:30. I'm not sure about the time right now, though I thought I was. No matter what the time is, come! It will be a night full of great performances, music, and...cheese? Well, you could bring some cheese. There we go, that problem is solved. And as for other things...I don't know. I can't really think of anything else to say right now, at least not anything that would fit in the end of this crazily long post. So anyways, I will end this now, and all I have left to say is, cheese out!