This has been a rocky weekend. I would have gone spare had it not been conference weekend.

I loved President Monson's traditional summing up speech at the end of the last session. It had such a wonderful ring of President Hinckley about it, and yet it was all him as well. There was humour and authority, it was personal and prophetic. No doubt about it, he is the prophet. It was great to hear a little about his family background, his wife and parents. I also needed to hear his comments in the earlier session about turning to the Saviour for help.

It was also great to see so much of Elder Uchtdorf. My mate Dave and I agree, he's totally our hero!