Savior of the World

We took our family to Austin this weekend to see the musical "Savior of the World."

www.savioroftheworldtickets.com

I didn't know anything about it, except it was some kind of church production. I was completely amazed to find out that the cast, crew members, and orchestra consisted almost entirely of youth.

The youth of the Austin stake, some living more than 30 minutes away from the stage they practiced and performed on. They all did this for free, the tickets were free, and they even had to rent out a huge performing arts stage to showcase the musical properly. Amazing! Those kids gave a commendable performance. They started practicing for this last August! To think how many hours they put into it...

It was a two part play, based first on the birth of Christ, secondly on his resurrection. What a wonderful opportunity for the youth to show their friends how they feel about the Savior, and to strengthen their own testimonies. It was such a great musical to take our kids to, I know they felt the spirit and could follow the simple story of our Savior and his role on earth.

This is a picture from the original showing of the musical at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City.


Besides this, we also saw the BATS in Austin. They were cool, I was afraid they would come too close, but no need to fear, they were way above the tree tops. (We were wondering if we needed an umbrella... think of walking under that many birds... same problem, we were fine though) Watching literally millions of bats fly out from under a bridge is NO everyday sighting!