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 Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:19 pm
Like EFY, Youth COnfrence can be a memorable thing. If you have a story or a memory about youth confrence, even if your to old to go to them any more (like me >.<) share them.
Just the weekend i wasn't in the most wonderful of moods and i didn't really wnat to go anywhere. I had passed up an oppertunity to go to Fremont School of the Deaf with my sign club and was set at staying home in my room. My mom came to my door around 5isha nd asked me if i wanted to go to youth confrence. At first i flat out said no, that i wasn't interested in giving up my three day weekend, but as i was sitting here playing gaia gamea and answering emails the spirit kept telling me that i need to g, so around 6, just a few hours before departure i made the call saying that i wanted to go. I can honestly say Youth confrence helped change my lief for teh better. Before that i had been struggling to come back to teh church after my parents divorce andmy testimony had been through the wringer. But it turned out Youth Confrence is just what i needed. I made a new friend and really felt the spirit during the time we were up there. It made all the diffrence in the world. But by far the most incrediable moment was when we were singing the closeing song "Until We Meet Again." My new friend kept saying "I think we should stand up, I think we should stand up." but no one wanted to do iyt with us and me, not being confident in my voice, was reluctant. But around teh second verse i got this strong prompting to stand and right before the third and final verse i looked at her and said "i'll stand with you." and when the third verse started we stood, just the two of us in a room filled with our fellow youth singing "Until We Meet Again." For almost a full line we were the only ones standing then a row behind us stood, then teh people next to us stood, then before we knew it the entire toom was standing. The spirit that filled the room at that moment was enough to bring tears to some eyes and it was ...just amazeing.
But anyway, thats my story...whats yours?
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:04 pm
I'm a recent convert, and this youth confernce was my first and last. I was baptized in feb, and have been attending the church for over two years. I was allowed to get baptized or go to EFY until I was 18.
But my story...
I bore my testimony for the first time at Youth conference!!!! And it was great!!!
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:18 am
My third and final year at EFY, I met a girl the first day we were there. We were both going to the registration area, and decide to be friendly to one another. We waited in lines together, and everything, and had a good time chatting. By the end of it all, we found that we were not in the same group as we had hoped, nor were we on the same floor.
So we basically forgot about one another until we both tried out for choir the next day, or the day after that. Even after we sang together, we didn't do much. It wasn't until the first dance that we became inseperable.
We both had the feeling that we knew each other from SOMEWHERE. It wouldn't have been so bad if one of us thought they had recognised the other, but since we both thought we knew the other, we were both driven crazy trying to figure out where we had met.
We didn't live in the same stake, not by a long shot. She was on one side of the same state, and I was in the middle, a good couple hundred of miles away. So that meant that we couldn't have met at Girls Camp, or any of the other stake functions. She had never visited my area for any activities, and I had never gone to her area for activities.
Finally, I asked her if she was in her highschool choir. We both were. Then I asked her if she and her choir went to this one place in our state for a thing where Middle school and highschool choirs go to get some tips on how to be better and to show off to the other choirs in the state. She said that they had.
"THAT's where we saw each other!" I said triumphantly.
We had seen each other go up on stage, sing, then go back down. Nothing more. We hadn't talked to each other after words, but we remembered the other person's group singing, and looking at the other person while they sang.
After we figured out, we were virtually unseparable the rest of the week. We ate together, went to practice together, and even sang 'Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam' with two parts and sign language for the Talent show.
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:11 pm
Jedi Master 1 Just the weekend i wasn't in the most wonderful of moods and i didn't really want to go anywhere. I had passed up an opportunity to go to Fremont School of the Deaf with my sign club and was set at staying home in my room. My mom came to my door around 5isha nd asked me if i wanted to go to youth conference. At first i flat out said no, that i wasn't interested in giving up my three day weekend, but as i was sitting here playing Gaia games and answering emails the spirit kept telling me that i need to g, so around 6, just a few hours before departure i made the call saying that i wanted to go. I can definitely tell you through experience, the times that you feel you REALLY don't want go go and attend something (In this I'm referring mostly to church oriented things) Then this is the time that is the most important to attend. I have heard this from some leaders before, and I have experienced this multiple times. There was one time in particular that I really didn't want to go to youth conference, but as I went it made all the difference in the world.
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:26 am
This may sounds cheesy and all, and I never thought it would happen to me this way, but I had my testimony hit me right between the eyes once at youth conference... It's kind of a funny story, 'cause we were at the Manti Pageant... I think, I can never remember which one it was... Anywho, we were at this pageant, wandering around, and I saw this group of protesters they have at almost every pageant, and I remember looking at this group of people thinking, "they've got nothing better to do on a summer evening than to stand outside, waving banners and signs and yelling at the hundreds/thousands of people who come here every day? If that many people came willingly over the last 40 or so years, don't you think they know what they're seeing is true???"
and later, as I was thinking about this while watching the pageant on Joseph Smith, it hit me hard that everything was true and that there's no way it couldn't be
so, that's my horridly cheesy story about an unforgettable youth conference i suppose.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:03 pm
I've had similar experiences to DK. Whenever I go to a missionary disscussion with my friend who's been investigating the chuch, it hits me time and time again that it's true, and he can feel that too because he keeps on wanting to meet with the elders, he just doesn't know he feels it and it's frustrating sometimes, especailly for him because he has a hard time praying and getting answers.
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:37 am
from beneath you... I'm a recent convert, and this youth confernce was my first and last. I was baptized in feb, and have been attending the church for over two years. I was allowed to get baptized or go to EFY until I was 18. But my story... I bore my testimony for the first time at Youth conference!!!! And it was great!!! Wait, I couldn't get baptized after age eighteen?
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:00 am
zannyxcore from beneath you... I'm a recent convert, and this youth confernce was my first and last. I was baptized in feb, and have been attending the church for over two years. I was allowed to get baptized or go to EFY until I was 18. But my story... I bore my testimony for the first time at Youth conference!!!! And it was great!!! Wait, I couldn't get baptized after age eighteen? Oh, you can get baptized at any age. 3nodding I think she just meant that you can't go to EFY/Youth Conference if you are older than 18.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:00 pm
Dragonwarrior_Keltyr zannyxcore from beneath you... I'm a recent convert, and this youth confernce was my first and last. I was baptized in feb, and have been attending the church for over two years. I was allowed to get baptized or go to EFY until I was 18. But my story... I bore my testimony for the first time at Youth conference!!!! And it was great!!! Wait, I couldn't get baptized after age eighteen? Oh, you can get baptized at any age. 3nodding I think she just meant that you can't go to EFY/Youth Conference if you are older than 18. any age older than 8
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:23 pm
Kisa_Yamino Dragonwarrior_Keltyr zannyxcore from beneath you... I'm a recent convert, and this youth confernce was my first and last. I was baptized in feb, and have been attending the church for over two years. I was allowed to get baptized or go to EFY until I was 18. But my story... I bore my testimony for the first time at Youth conference!!!! And it was great!!! Wait, I couldn't get baptized after age eighteen? Oh, you can get baptized at any age. 3nodding I think she just meant that you can't go to EFY/Youth Conference if you are older than 18. any age older than 8 it was just a misunderstanding and badly placed/formed sentence. but yes, you can gte baptised at any age older/at 8
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:15 pm
Anyone ever heard Brother Hymes speak??? He came to our youth conference this weekend (we got back saturday).im glad i went even though i didnt really want to go at first.
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