Friday, October 24, 2008

More Sunday Goodness

After posting about how much I love Sundays, I checked facebook and noticied that there was a fireside at BYU that night for the Brasilian community. Elder Richard G Scott had been invited to speak to them. And, yes, he does speak Portuguese. Anyway, I called my brother who also served his mission in Brasil and asked if he wanted to go. I also invited another friend, who doesn't speak Portuguese but went hoping to get the chance to shake Elder Scott's hand. The fireside was to be held in a large auditorium on BYU campus and by the time we got there (and we were about half an hour early) the whole place was packed! All the seats were taken and the people standing were jammed in. They had also opened another auditorium where the meeting would be broadcast but all the seats were taken there as well. So we just started wandering around trying to decide whether to stay and fight for a seat or just go home. As we opened the door to leave the building, we found ourselves face to face with Elder Scott on his way in. He said hi and asked how we were doing and then went on in. We just stood there and stared after him. It was pretty funny to us, especially since we didn't even stay to hear him to speak.

4 comments:

jen said...

See the wicked prosper sometimes too! He he.

That's a funny story.

Mena said...

That's funny. He's really nice. I met him once in the Wilk. I had just served at a lunch he had attended. He stopped his entourage so that he could meet me (they weren't happy about it, but it really touched me and built my testimony.)

Stephanie said...

I just wanted to say hi. It's nice to read your inspiring coments and stories you write on your blog. How are you liking living in Salt Lake now? (I think that's where you are at)

jen said...

Hey I tagged you on my blog, so if you want to you should check it out and play too!