Second year Day 129 - Sunday April 21, 2013

This morning Stephany, Mark and I went to conference.  Tyler stayed home with Bridgett.  It was a good thing she didn't come with us.  It would have been very crowded and noisy for her, in addition to being uncomfortable on the folding chairs.  Conference was great, as usual.  Carl Clark was put in as the new stake president, which was so exciting for us!  He was Bridgett's branch president in the singles ward.  Anyway, everyone just loves him!!  He kept President Busick and Thorderson as well.  So, it was all exciting and super good news!  I sent a text right after the announcement, to tell Arri about it and I asked her to call Tyler and Bridgett and tell them.  I knew that they'd both be excited about it. Later on after conference I talked to Bridgett and she was just glowing about it.  She was really excited!!  I really enjoyed the talks.  Several of the speakers talked about trials in life and that everyone has them, or will at some point.  We all just do our best and have faith and we make it through the trials.  That's what we are doing....just doing the best that we can right now.  Some days it seems harder than others.  Some days it seems that we don't do as well.  But, overall I think we are all handling things.  Bridgett is progressing, just at a slower pace than we had all hoped.  But, she is progressing all of the time and that's the important thing.  The doctors told us not to be worried unless her progress stops.  I said to Mark, maybe we should ask our very own general authority, our old stake president, President Stanfill, to give her a blessing.  He smiled and said that the Lord is blessing Bridgett and things will happen in the Lord's time.  I know that, I just wish the Lord's time was faster sometimes.  That sounds bad, I'm sure, but I'm human.  Still, I wonder....doesn't it seem like it would be so powerful to have President Stanfill give her a blessing with President Clark, President Busick, President Thorderson and Mark standing in??  Hummm......