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TOFW Auckland 2011

What do you get when there are 1500 (mostly lds) women in one place?? Time Out For Women.

I was so blessed to be able to secure a ticket, thank you my dear friend Naomi!!

What a great day! Some sisters from Hibiscus ward were travelling in to Auckland City for the event and offered me to go with them. That was such a great Idea. I really enjoyed some sister companionship with them.

We arrived in the city with plenty of time to spare and found good seats.  Even before I walked through the doors of the Auditorium I met up with people I had not seen in years. The first of them was my roomy from college. Nadia Elkington. She was so excited to see me I think it just gave me such a boost.



From then on, and unlike me, If I recognised someone,(or thought I recognised them), I went up to them and said Hello! Usually I would say, I know that person and my feet wouldn't move. Unsure if they would remember who I was. Not this day. I so surprised myself and had such a wonderful experience because of it.



The speakers were fabulous. Each with their own message of motivation and upliftment. laughter and joy filled the auditorium. I LOVED Hillary Weeks. (she is living my dream) She makes me want to get back into writing and performing music. Her songs are amazing and she is so much like all of us. She had some wonderful experiences to share and I think she connected with so many of us on so many levels.

         




Another of the presenters was our dear friend Brad Wilcox. His family accompanied and looked after  after our dear 6 US daughters from BYU Provo when they came over for their intern studies 10 years ago. I saw him in the Foyer just as lunch was finishing and had to say hello. I was thrilled he remembered exactly who I was and so enjoyed the few minutes that we shared together (amongst the crowd hunting him for his autograph!!) He is still the same happy Brad. So full of life!



On our way in from lunch one of the organizers grabbed our little group for a photo for her blog! I had to get her to take one for me too.  


One of our group members conveniently disappeared on us but a great shot none the less.

After seeing a few more people I knew

   






Moana from Onehunga ward,













Angela from our Home town Te Hauke ward in Hastings.


just to name a few, we headed back in to the afternoon session. (After the surprise that someone else had taken our seats) we did enjoy the remainder of the program! 

Thank you to Naomi for organising the ticket for me. (am soo in debt to you!) Looie for arranging the ride for me and my darling for looking after our 6 children on rugby game day (3 games) with shop duty and managers duty to contend with too.  I love you!!




Comments

  1. DonnaJuly 31, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    i am soooo glad you got to go!! it was in Sydney last weekend and I tossed up going but I didn't and I sure do regret it. Aren't they just the coolest tote bags.

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