This one is dedicated to all the ladies out there - My notes from tonight's manhood session

(my written thoughts are in parentheses)

Grandpa Packer-

• We had gender from the creation of our spirits in the pre-existence.
• (We had spirit junk?)
• Some races are better than others
• (Though he didn't clarify which was better)

Bishop Edgley

• (If I close my eyes I picture him with a large white cowboy hat, alligator skin boots, and a bolo tie)
• Something about "corn brothers"
• (Who and what are these "corn brothers"? Sounds farmish or cultish)
• Some women "even have to work."
• (He should prepared me for that. It was a lot to take in at once)
• These working women "can teach and babysit."
• (Okay. I can handle that)

Claudio Return Missionary Costa

• FHE must be on Mondays
• If children have any other responsibilities on Mondays, those responsibilities must be given up or abandoned.
• This includes sports.
• (Did you here that Pres. Monson?)

Elder Uchtdorf

• (Here comes another story that he is going to relate to the gospel)
• Jokes about trying to find another story to relate to the gospel.
• (Haha. I was right)
• "The story of the lightbulb"
• Tendency to focus on the insignifant to the detriment of the profound.
• Even some Church programs can be a problem if they are focused on the the extreme.
• Nehemiah - "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• (He's always so tan. And has great hair. I wonder if he works out)
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• (I'm not having gay thoughts. I'm just admiring a handsome man)
  
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• (If we were in a black church, we'd all be repeating and shouting out with him right now.)
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• (I so wish I was in black and in a black church right now)
• "I am doing a great work and cannot come down."
• (Oh... So maybe that's what Packer meant with not being jealous of another race)

Elder Eyring

• (Wasn't he in a movie where he kidnapped Santa Claus and made a mess of Christmas?)
• Recounts his favorite movie Black Hawk Down
• The usual crying
• "No one left behind" in the priesthood.
• (Please end the talk with a "Whuup")
• (No Whuup)

President Monson

• Study diligently
  
• Pray fervently
• Live Righteously
• Don't eat rotten egg salad sandwhiches
• (I love his talks. Enteraining and to the point)