A few weeks prior to General Conference we started putting a little more emphasis on Bridget recognizing members of the quorum of the twelve.

My sister made her this great “Prophet cards” with the name and image of each member of the first presidency and quorum of the twelve. We keep them in her church bag, and the past few Sunday’s they’ve been pulled out to test her knowledge. She’s getting there, slowly but surely… Thanks Livia for the flash cards!

Anyway, this past weekend she had them out during conference and had fun finding the appropriate card when that particular apostle was talking. “Hey, I have that guy” was a pretty common phrase coming from her. Then she’d proceed to find the card and hold it up to the screen to make sure it matched.

She doesn’t recognize everyone by name yet, maybe by next conference.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf confuses her a little though. She calls him “Jeffery H. Uchtdorf” – I suppose its an improvement over last October when she wouldn’t even try to say his name. Dave and I do find it funny, though, that she’s combining 3 different names to come up with her version.

But the best part is that she walks around the house saying “Jeffery H. Uchtdorf” pretty regularly now.

She also seems to like to say “Quinton L. Cook” – I’m pretty sure that she can’t quite match a face with a name on that one yet, because all during conference she’d ask me, “Is that Quinton L. Cook?,” to any speaker she didn’t recognize.

Well… I think she’s adorable. And I just wanted to share.

P.S. This session we tried setting out 3 different bowls of snacks. One for missionary work (animal crackers), one for Jesus (marshmallows), and one for Obedience (nilla wafers). She was supposed to eat a snack from the bowl when the corresponding subject was discussed. It worked really well for most of the Saturday morning session… then it effectiveness wore off. I think we need to change things up a bit next time.