The Millenial Year Presses on to our View

This memory has been stirred over the past couple months and makes me laugh every time I think of it, so I want to write it down!

When I was home for Christmas in 1999, middle of my sophomore year at BYU, Bishop Swenson (or was it still Bishop Ebert? I don't remember) asked me to give a talk in the Granite Ridge Ward Sacrament meeting on the Sunday between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Dad was the Stake President at the time, so he came to our ward to hear me speak and sat on the stand with me. For the opening hymn, Dad and I shared a hymnal as we sang "Come, let us Anew" (Hymn 217). When we got to then end of the second verse and sang the words "The millenial year presses on to our view, " Dad started to chuckle a little- being that it was just days before January 1, 2000. It was just too fitting and he couldn't help himself. And that made me start to giggle. And we were sitting on the stand. And trying to stifle the laughing, which made it all the harder. I remember trying so hard not to burst out laughing that I was physically shaking and my eyes were watering. Then, through watery eyes, I caught a glimpse of Mom, over on her second row on the side. I'm sure you can image the stern expression on her face: pursed lips, wide eyes, and a look that unmistakably said, "STOP IT." Dad saw her about the same time because, through his own attempts to stifle the laughing he said, "look at Mom!" and we both started laughing more and her eyes got even wider! Neither of us completely lost it while on the stand, but I think there was enough going on that anyone who happened to look at the stand during that song could tell there was something going on! Ha!