In Case You're Wondering

I do not intend to go into detail of every day I was at Tampa. But that first day left quite an impression on me.

The sheer number of foreign-speaking delegates, especially the ones speaking Portuguese, French, and Swahili, was stunning. The numbers of just them were as large as my own annual conference plenary sessions.

Learning the background of how translating began, walking more than a mile in the rain, meeting a bishop who wants to learn what to do and what to avoid doing in his young and growing denomination, and connecting with old friends sandwiched between two long periods of driving in my car represent the kinds of things that can happen at General Conference, even a couple days before it started.

It really is a big deal.