Saturday Session of Stake Conference

On Saturday January 25, Sister Carol McConkie, First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency, spoke to us in the Saturday session of Stake Conference. For this particular session of Stake Conference, we got special permission from President Thomas S. Monson to have all the youth 12 years of age and older in attendance.  Sister McConkie's words were directed to the youth.  We got there early because we wanted to have good seats so we sat on the front third row.  I noticed our Stake President, President Shill walking in the front of the chapel and motioned for a young woman to speak with him, then I noticed he looked at Parker so I knew something was up.  Our Stake President then started talking to one of his counselors, President Johnson who had been our bishop and both were looking in Parker's direction. The next thing, President Johnson walks over and sits next to Parker and asked him to participate in something that sister McConkie was doing during her talk. Parker said yes but was worried and not happy, and told me it was my fault for sitting in the front, hahaha. Sister McConkie asked a young woman and two young men, one of them Parker, to go up to the front.  The young woman had a picture of Jesus on one side of the podium, representing good choices and the young man was standing on the opposite side representing bad choices.  Parker stood in the middle, where an imaginary line was.  She would say some things that were either good choices that Parker did or bad choices and Parker would move to either side depending whether the choice was good or bad.  Parker did awesome he answered all her questions and was funny at times. It was great! Parker said to me when he was finished "now everyone in the Stake knows my name", Sister McConkie repeated his name many times.  After the conference Parker and I went up to speak with her for a few minutes. She is awesome! On Sunday we had a Regional Conference, but it was broadcast at our Church building.  When we were sitting waiting for it to start, one of the counselors in the Orlando Temple presidency and his wife were sitting in front of us. He turned to us and said to Brent how much he enjoyed his Gospel Doctrine lessons, when he saw Parker next to Brent he said, "You are Parker from last night's conference." I laughed because I remembered Parker saying that everyone in the Stake now knows his name! Hahaha.