"Righteous Traditions"

GENERAL CONFERENCE! I love general conference.

A tradition that I will never forget is that each April conference, my father would take one of us children to the Conference Center in Salt Lake. And since we lived in Connecticut at the time, it was a big trip. We would spend the whole weekend in Utah, taking the time to walk around temple square and go to the Joseph Smith Building. It was also really special because my father would only take one of us at a time. This way, we each had a chance to bond with our father and share our testimony of what the Brethren were saying. It was a great and tender one-on-one experience of bonding and building of testimony that I will carry for the rest of my life.

And... just last Conference in April, my father flew here with my youngest brother to attend Conference. He got tickets for my husband and me too, and it was a specially significant experience. As we were walking home from the Conference Center, my father pulled me aside and with tears in his eyes, he told me that he knew I was going to be a good mother someday. He said that during Elder Ballard's talk "Daughters of God" he had a distinct impression that I was going to be a good mother if I followed Elder Ballard's counsel. I will never forget that.

Breanna Plooster