On Tuesday night, my choir, again, had the priveledge to sing for some pretty amazing people--the employees of Beneficial Life. (their Chistmas Party at the Marriott downtown) Makes me want to get a job there! And some or all (not sure which) of the board members were in attendance, and include some familiar faces! (again, not sure if all of these gentleman are on the board, but I didn't care-they were there!)
So, we sang about 6 or 7 songs from our Christmas music repertoire (including "Baby," Mainha!) and they were a very generous audience. I have to say, I looked down (we were on risers) at the table in the front, right at President Monson, and he TOTALLY made eye contact with me and smiled! It was very nice :) Hopefully I wasn't hallucinating and it really did happen.
After the performance, we got to stick around and listen to President Monson speak. It was great--he just has such a great spirit about him, and he mostly told stories about Christmas service and good will. One thing I really liked that he said was that each of us should be showing and telling our Heavenly Father that we are willing to "be on His errand" and help others... especially during this season. President Monson also has a big soft spot for the widows--he talked of delivering small chickens to each of the 8o+ widows in his ward each Christmas Eve, his wife Francis spending a lot of Christmas Eve without him, but fully supporting him. What a great man. He said it is a miracle, but he has been able to speak at ALL of these widows' funerals over the years...some 3 a day!
Anyway, it was a wonderful experience, as usual, and nice to sing for such a great group. I have had a bad cough lately, can't hit anything higher than an A, and just have had the worst breath support, but was able to sing my descant solo to "Little Road to Bethlehem" and I guess (at least they told me) it turned out good. Pheww... :)
No pictures of the night, but you'd just see what you see in the last post anyway--our lovely red dresses!!
1 comment:
Wow, what a neat experience! I wish that i could have been there too. We have a Beneficial life insurance plan, does that count? That makes sence that they were all there. The company is owned by the church.
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