This Afternoon

Alright. It’s currently 3:45 pm and today was the day! I have a feeling the blogging will become less and less detailed as we go on and I have limited free time.
Brief Overlook of the Day:
8 Worship with a lot of good music
9 Episcopacy Address…stories of hope from Sharon Brown Christopher
Then the General Secretaries discussed the Four Areas of Focus
And then it was time to go backstage…
We prepared (Annie had to tie my sash on my shirt because I’m apparently incapable of dressing myself.), we got powdered to avoid shine, and off we went! The speech was aired live. I’ll try and find that link to put it on the side list of the blog so you can see it if you’d like.
The press conference was short and sweet…we were somewhat disappointed that no issues were brought up, mostly just questions about our involvement in the Church and our backgrounds. But the press we’re great.
I now feel like a celebrity…it took the group forever to get anywhere, as we kept being stopped for hand-shaking and picture-taking.
We went to our “Last Supper” together and came back in time to participate in the final wrap-up of Messaging Time.
Then it was straight to plenary. We’re working with the amendments to the rules from last night. After this we’ll go into Legislative Committees to elect our officers. Good luck to me and Matt!!

Agenda Committee Report
4:15ish Legislative Committee
Adjournment for Dinner; Training for Officers
8 Legislative Committee Meetings

Tomorrow
8:15 Worship
9:05 Conference Business
Nominations for University Council and Judicial Council
Morning Break
10:45 Legislative Committees….all day

Judicial Council’s Report
We have some reconciliation business to do with an issue regarding allocations on General Conference Boards in Paragraphs 705 and 706.