Polishing the Pulpit

This year was Brody's first Polishing the Pulpit. I was very much pregnant with him last year while we were there. PTP is held at the Wilderness Conference Center. We stayed at the Wilderness Hotel that was right next to the conference center. PTP is a week long event where people can come to hear many speakers talk on various topics related to the church. They split them up into tracks and there are tracks for women, men, preachers, elders, deacons, youth workers, families, teens, etc.

We were worried about how a week long of lectures would fit into Brody's schedule. We decided we would have a relaxed schedule this year and just see how our week went with Brody with us. I was helping Jeanny with her chalking sessions at different times that week, so while I went there Kyle would watch Brody. And other than 3 other times when I wanted to hear April and Teah talk about their visuals, I watched Brody so Kyle could go to the sessions he wanted to hear. I think it went pretty well. I took Brody with me to some of the sessions and I only had to take him out of a few. If you had to take your child out because he/she was crying you got to get a free CD of that session. This was a way of encouraging the mothers to take their children out so they wouldn't be a distraction on the recorded CDs of those sessions.

We also love going because we get to see many friends that we don't get to see throughout the year. Brody even had some friends he couldn't wait to see this year! Some of our friends have babies that are around Brody's age so that will be fun every year to get together and let them play. Brody's schedule was a little messed up while we were there, but I think he did a great job and still was the happy and sweet boy we love to be around. He started waking up some during the night, but we knew it was because he wasn't drinking as much milk during the day as he usually was and he also wasn't in his room in his own crib. I did miss a lot of sessions during the afternoon so that Brody could get a good nap in.

Brody met a lot of preachers while we were there and Kyle took his picture with them and put them on his facebook page in the album with his other preacher friends. We enjoyed being up there and I'm sure Brody's grandparents, Jema and Pop, were even more excited that they got to spend an entire week with their grandson!

Here are some pictures of Brody at his first PTP: