The First Presidency Meeting Rooms
A First Presidency meeting room in the Church Administration Building
Last Wednesday evening, a youth group from a ward had the opportunity to go downtown to the Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City and receive a tour of some of the rooms where the First Presidency holds their meetings with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Presidency of the Seventy. The invitation came from their bishop, Bishop Mortensen, who is an assistant secretary to the First Presidency.
The group was able to see several boardroom-style meeting rooms, ask questions, and take pictures. They saw the door to President Monson’s office, but weren’t able to go inside. The picture shown here is apparently the room where they meet most often for committee meetings, etc.
The blogger includes a fun anecdote of an exchange once between their bishop and President Monson:
…if you look in the photo, in the left corner is the door that leads to the Prophet’s office. Our Bishop has the responsibility to open it for the Prophet. The wood in the room was imported from Russia, and the door is at least 3 inches thick, so it is heavy and President Monson always jokes with our Bishop because it’s hard. One day they were joking and the Bishop mentioned he was doing push-ups to get ready to open it and Pres. Monson said: “Oh really? Well lets see!” So Bishop Mortensen dropped down and gave the Prophet 10 push-ups and got up and Pres. Monson said: “I meant show me by opening the door!”
You can read more about the tour, and see a couple more pictures, at the link below:
