The Begining

The internet is still not working well so I am typing all of my blog entries in a word document with hopes to put them online later.

It is Saturday morning and the fun has begun. We began with a YAD picture before breakfast which was tons of fun. We all hoarded out onto the stairs leading up to a parking deck so that we could all fit. Hopefully it will be a good picture :)

We had our first business meeting at 10am this morning and it was very informational. They thanked everyone, and we watched some videos, and so on, and so on. The room where we meet is awesome. It’s about as wide as a football field and about as long as two or three. If the internet is working correctly then hopefully I will have some pictures up.

Lunch time was next! The food here that we get as YAD’s is amazing to say the least. Most of our meals are catered by the hotel and are absolutely delicious. Dinner the first night was homemade pizza, yesterday for lunch we had steak and potatoes, dinner last night was heaps of pasta, and on, and on.

After lunch we came back to the plenary hall, everyone was broken into three groups, and we traveled through stations learning about different aspects of plenary sessions. It was exciting to get things going, but I’m a bit anxious about all of the rules and strict procedures that we have to follow. I’m also a bit nervous about starting committees tomorrow.

Dinner at last! I feel as though we eat every five minutes here. Our group wandered around and found a cute hole-in-the-wall pizza place a few blocks away from our hotel. It was delicious (just like all food here is) and we had great laughs (like always), but we had to hurry back to the conference center for our third business session.

Right now it is 7:20pm and I am sitting in the business session listening to representatives from the churches of European countries. Soon we will have the moderator campaigning and elections, and then we will return to our hotel for YAD caucus. Hopefully we will be done by 11, but our group has a hardcore game of Mafia (a card game) planned for tonight.

We are getting started now so I must go … until next time! To tack on to earlier … I have sat through an hour of a moditorial question/answer session, the moderator election, the moderator installation (Bruce Reyes-Chow won!!!), and YAD caucus.

Now I am most defiantly ready for bed … but we are all in one room on our laptops facebooking one another and talking. It’s wonderful!!!

Until tomorrow ...

Oh ... to highlight a feely good moment: this morning during the plenary session, they showed a video of Triennium and discussed the power of the candel light service we had. It brought back all of those moments and I got warm fuzzies remembering all of those good times! Also, they showed a picture of my Triennium small group in their video and that was just awesome!!