Well the weekend just gone was such a busy one for me as I was away most of it as a Youth leader for a special youth convention that was put on by the Devenport Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that involved the 14-18 year olds. It involved youth from all over Tassie and it went down really well. On the Friday night the youth from each Ward put together a DVD over the past few weeks to show, the theme was based on the youth theme this year is from 1 Timothy 4:12 "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity". It was excellent to see the ideas that each group had come up with and they all had done great jobs.
On the Saturday the youth participated in a service project at Newstead Heights school and they did gardening, cleaned the gym, and made some blankets. They worked really hard and even finished earlier than expected and then went to Punchbowl for a a kick of the footy and some lunch.
While the youth were at the service project Ryan and I took our kids into town and hung out at City Park, which was fun William loved the train, while Amelia loved the monkey bars, Charlotte just enjoyed hanging out with Dad.
After lunch the youth went to do some obstacle courses, which was great as they had stations set up and they were put into groups and they had to problem solve together. After this they travelled back to where they were staying and got ready for a formal dinner and dance. They had a great time and really enjoyed their night.
On Sunday everyone attended church in the morning and the youth went to workshops i the afternoon. Sunday evening we went to a great fireside that was linked up with Kenneth Cope in America, he is a guy who writes and perform inspiring songs and e spoke to the youth for about an hour, the Skype line cut in and out a few times but overall it worked well and the youth loved him. We also had a testimony meeting which was great as the youth love them.
On Monday everyone went to the pool at Riverside for a swim, so Ryan and the kids came along and had a great time. William LOVED the little pool and made some new friends at the same time. I must say that when the close of the convention came around I was rather relieved as I was starting to feel very tired from such a busy weekend, we never had time to stop at all which I think is a good thing when it comes to doing stuff with the youth.
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