Conference brings blessings of peace and family

I got Scott squared-- My brother Scott was in town with his youngest daughter Ellie. (Scott's real name is Theodore after my dad, and his son is Ted, and my great grandpa was Theodore... you get the picture.) Ellie is a beauty and so feminine. SHe is a natural blond, but a few years ago she went dark- (so she now had blond roots). Ellie is named after my grandma Elizabeth Scharrier, who I never got to meet. She died of kidney failure before I was born. She was young. My older siblings loved her, they tell me how warm and loving she was. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of her friends and family over the years and I think I will just be the best of friends with her in heaven.
It was fun to be with Scott and Ellie and watch conference. How cute that my brother flew up here with his daughter and did stuff she wanted to do. (I did miss seeing Scott's wife Karen, who has been a angel over the years to all of us.) Scott even took Ellie shopping. Scott makes me laugh- he is funny brother.
Anthony, Scott (my hubby Scott) couldn't get over how much Scott reminds us of our dad. Do any of us look alike? We were sad to hear how Scott's step dad is very ill with Alzheimer's. He was a really neat man, kind and funny. That is a disease that breaks hearts. Watching your loved one lost inside themselves. It about killed my mom when my Grandpa Dixon had it. He lived for 10 years like that.
It seems when I am overwhelmed with sorrow I can lean on the new conference talks. I believe them to be inspired from God to help lead us with love and happiness. Since we have to live in an imperfect world with our imperfect selves it is refreshing to be reminded that we are strangers here on earth. I loved the first talk on Sat. about prayer. Here is a link to listen to it if you missed it. http://www.lds.org/conference/sessions/display/0,5239,49-1-690,00.html Then click on Elder Scott's from the Sat. session. They had excellent talks about marriage, divorce, how to be better, the bible, Jesus and repentance. It was nice to be together as a family and learn from God how to improve ourselves, our jobs, our families our personal relationship with God. Another thing I love about conference is I get Scott all to myself. The ward keeps itself busy and the phone was relatively quite. I hope that is not selfish, 2 weekends a year:)