This was one pretty successful venture. Evelyn has taken recently to reading stories out of the Friend. We have months of the Friend that she has practically memorized the stories out of. Well, in the most recent one, there was a story about kids who decided to be like the people of King Benjamin, and build a tent facing toward the prophet, and watch Conference from it. So as not to be to rowdy, they named it the "reverence tent" and brought scriptures, old Friend magazines, and other supplies for watching Conference.Evelyn thought this was a great idea, and we did, too. So watching Conference at Grandma & Grandpa Hinckley's house, we set up a tent with some pillows, blankets, dolls and snacks. She loved it. She stayed quiet and occupied—if not for the entire time, then at least as long as can humanly be expected of a toddler. I think it helped that I, dutiful father that I am, conceded to watch/nap/snack from the reverence tent as well. This was a much more successful solution than last year's taking turns and only catching half the talks.
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Well, it kept DAVID awfully reverent! MOM
I have to admit that the reverence tent wasn't quite as successful for us. Of course, it was the second day of Conference when we tried it (so the novelty of getting to "watch the prophet on T.V.!" had worn off by then), and it may have been more fun if Kendall or I had gone in with Adriana. Still a cute idea, though. I think we'll try it again in April. I'm glad it worked so well for you guys.
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