Youth Conference--"Xcentuate the Positive"

17 September 2011 Gabriel and I had Youth Conference this fall and participated in a great service project. We went to a Las Vegas park and pulled weeds for the community.

That is a BIG 'ole pile of weeds!!! Have you ever seen that many WEEDS???? Honestly, it didn't even take that long with as many hands as we had. These are the group of girls that we had show up.

Gabriel worked really hard and did his fair share...always so proud of him!

We had a great lunch together, but this photo was actually taken by our bishop who texted it to my husband to mock him for his family wearing ORANGE! We got a kick out of that.

We had a motivational speaker you spoke to us about "xcentuating the positive," which was our theme for the weekend. His name is "Wheelz" and he is prapalegic who does tricks on his wheelchair. He has a world record of completing two backflips. He has a great attitude in the midst of his circumstances and was a great example to our youth on how to keep things in perspective and live life with a positive outlook.

The youth were very impressed with him and wanted to take pictures and get his autograph. His signed the back of my shirt. :)

Later in the evening, the youth had a dance.

Gabriel and another girl decided to dress 80's style. LOL. Can you see the mullet he's wearing?

Austin and Gabe

Gabriel loves to dance with the ladies.

There's a little down syndrom girl who likes Gabriel a lot and she got very upset with me when I kind of interrupted their dancing to take a picture. Hahaha...she was so jealous! Gabriel is always so sweet to her and gives her lots of attention.

She finally forgave me, though. :)

I have some great videos of the youth dancing together. I think they had a blast!