Young Single Adult Conference

Thursday, October 27, 2005

We had a great adventure today going to speak at a Regional Young Adult Conference - traveled for about an hour up and down and around on the tiniest dirt/rock mountain road you can imagine - after two hours of driving over the mountains and down the coast on paved roads)- but we got there. Coming home it was pouring rain - and someone was following us since we had a young adult guide with us.The Conference was held at a place called Hidden Valley Resort - in Lamak - which was a branch assigned to us, but we were told by a missionary that we would probably never go there since the roads were too bad! We had a wonderful time and saw many of the young adults whom we have met in the various branches. Over 300 YA's were at the conference which was for 2 Stakes and 3 Districts. Simultaneously on Negros Island, another YA Conference was being held for one Stake and four districts from parts of our mission and the adjacent mission. Our Mission President went to speak at that one. It is semester break for the schools here. We were assigned to talk for one hour on Mission Preparation to those who had not yet served missions - we had about 150 in our group. The previous speakers - Employment Resource Center - took half of our time, and we definitely wanted to finish on time to give ourselves time to get down off the mountain road before dark - so our talks were short and to the point and seemed greatly appreciated, which made the 3 hours driving each way all worth it.