Urban Poly Princess

I could tell my friend Chris was uncomfortable about visiting my apartment to fix my Desktop sound sooo I unplugged everything on my tower and lugged it to work. He tested it and it worked fine. Sooo I told him there must be something wrong with the speakers I just bought. I got my speakers for him to test AND there's a power button on the back of one of them. Dale and Chris could not stop laughing at me. Charity called it my blonde moment.
Sooo I was without sound because I didn't notice a power button!!! Now it's fine and I'll be able to watch conference on my desktop instead of my laptop although I can lay in bed with my laptop. I love my culture and have enjoyed watching all the events surrounding the king's funeral BUT-conference weekend in particular has been celebration time and reunion time for my Tongan community.
I used to live 2 blocks from the conference center. I served a church service mission there after I met the man in charge of that at my friend's wedding reception. She was a service missionary there and she introduced me to him. I told him how I thought it was great that my friend did that and then he said why don't you do that too? I couldn't think of a reason for him so I gave tours at the conference center every Thursday night for 3 years.
Since guides were familiar with the Center and the ushers were in demand at conference we were always asked to do this too. We had to be there at 6am and as soon as we got the congregation seated we were to go and eat lunch during the talks that were played on huge screens in the Church Office Building cafeteria. By the time we finished eating it was time to return to our assigned post and help people exit the building.
On Saturdays we ate dinner too before priesthood session but on Sundays we just went home and made our own meals that night. Ushering never allowed me to listen to the talks the way I wanted and it always required a little more effort to read or watch these later online. Ironically the years I ushered for conference were the years I didn't get as much from the sessions.
I loooved being a guide. Sometimes I didn't feel like going there but once I was there and had a group of people and started a tour it was incredible. People in Utah are so blessed to have those types of opportunities. It was so neat to share my testimony all the time although we didn't do it the typical way. We were not allowed to share our testimony the way people usually do but we could make simple declarative statements that to me are actually more powerful.
One of my favorite things about the conference center is all the artwork is original. The Arnold Frieberg gallery holds ALL the Book of Mormon paintings while original works by Minerva Teichert and Walter Rane are all over the place too. I looove art. I wish I took even one art history course. Renoir is my absolute favorite but I also like some contemporary artists and other old masters from diverse styles like Van Gough and my friend got me to like Picasso too. I looove the Honolulu Art Gallery. For some reason I thought Utah would have better galleries and museums but I have been sadly disappointed. The U's art museum and even BYU's don't compare AND NOT just by a little bit, by A LOT!!! I think I need to explore California's museums next. I know there are MANY there. I'm not sure where to start.