Conference crafting

One of my favorite traditions that I have started is a craft during the saturday sessions of general conference. It started about 4 years ago and I LOVE it.i have made a candy corn wreath, a wooden pumpkin, a set of 3 wooden candy corns, and this conference, I made a wooden Fall sign foe decoration. Something about creating a and listening to the words of my church leaders is so compelling. So refreshing. It is a way that I can be begged in a project, yet able to focus on all of the different messages that are given during general conference.
I know that Heavenly Father guides and directs each conference speaker to deliver their talk with the spirit and to help each member of the church gain more of a testimony of gospel priciples and truths. I am so grateful that I can listen and learn during these times.
Conference has been an evolution for me. I can remember being a young child and we would dress in our Sunday best, gather a few quiet things" (usually a coloring book or a notebook for notes) to do during the session. Then as a family we would head out to our stake center, which was about a 20 minute drive away.
My father was in charge of making sure that the sessions were recorded so we would arrive at least 30 minutes before the first session and spend the day at the stake center, we picnic-ed out on the grass in between sessions and sat quietly in the chapel on the sides with light, so that mom could keep notes in her journal during conference.
I remember as a child I was not invested in conference, nor did I understand just how important each session. Was to me as an individual member of the church. That understanding didn't come until much later in life after I had grown and married and was beginning a life of my own. But the important thing is that my parents helped me lay the foundation of principle of general Conference.
Likewise, I understand that my children do not have a full understand of the importance of general conference, I know that it will come in their own time. I am just helping them lay their foundations one brick at a time. I love the Gospel, I have a firm testimony of the many principles and precepts.i look forward to many, many more conferences and crafts.