The big event for April 29th was a special presentation for the women in our Stake. The event was preceded by lot of advertising along with the admonition to be there well before 7 p.m. because the doors would be closed at that time.

The presentation was based around the Parable of the Ten Virgins from the New Testament. The program started in the Chapel and each sister as she arrived was assigned a number between 1 and 10. After a short introduction, the group split into ten much small groups and went to the room with their number on it. In the room, which was very nicely decorated, was a woman portraying one of the Ten Virgins and, after the group was seated, told a bit about herself and some of the choices she had made during her life. After about 5 minutes, a bell rang and the group exited the room and made their way to the next higher-numbered room. Over the course of about 70 minutes, each group visited each of the ten rooms and heard each of the ten presentations.

The turnout was almost overwhelming! The planning was set around about 150 women in attendance and well over 270 showed up. I’m certain that all of them had a great experience.

My assignment was to lead one of the groups from one room to the next and then to help serve the light refreshments at the end. Several sheet cakes had been ordered, but only enough for about 180 people … so we cut the pieces in half. We did have some left over, though quite a few sisters took a small piece (or two) home for their husbands.

Then came the cleanup. Fortunately we had a lot of help and by 11 p.m. I was headed home for a quick night’s sleep. Friday morning was a 3:30 a.m. wakeup to be at the Idaho Falls Temple by 5:30 a.m.

TTFN!