A good morning in ABQ

 

 

Thursday we went to the Balloon Festival. It was special shapes day. The day was perfect, except that the wind was blowing higher up so the balloons did not take off. It meant for a lot longer time to just walk through them as they were inflated on the ground. Even so it was a perfect morning in a lot of ways.

 

 

Today was the opening day of Albuquerque's 42 annual International Balloon Festival.   There will be over 600 balloons at the festival this year.  The sky was very blue and the air was crisp.

We watched LDS Conference today and enjoyed just being home together.  The conference messages were good. I took some notes and particularly liked the comments of Elder Debe. He said: "In the service of the Lord it is not where we serve but how" and "The past should be lived with but not in" and "The spirit of the Lord is not what we have done or where we have been but where we are willing to go".

President Uchtdorf's messages were really good and I liked his comment "Doubt your doubt before you doubt your faith"