President Monson Gives a Hug
Place: Little America Hotel, Salt Lake City, UT
Purpose: Unknown
A couple was at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake last Saturday, March 13th, for an all-day training conference. At the end of their training they were getting ready to go home when they saw the prophet near an elevator. They don’t know why he was at the hotel, but they described their encounter:
Then as we were getting ready to leave I heard someone say to their dad, “Dad, there’s the prophet.” So I start to look around and sure enough there he was waiting to get on the elevator. So Randy and I walked over by him (we were three steps away from him). We didn’t get to shake his hand or anything because there was a crowd, but it was so neat to see the prophet just walking around in regular life. He was with his wife who was in a wheelchair, someone was pushing her, and I’m pretty sure he had to security guard type guys with him. He was being his usual self and joking around, when we walked over to him there was a girl giving him a hug and she was crying. She was saying, “oh this is so embarrassing,” President Monson said something about not wanting to make the girls cry. Then as he was standing right next to the elevator he was standing next to a guy who was taller then him and President Monson made the comment about him squatting a little so he would be shorter then him (President Monson). Anyway, hopefully that all made sense, even though we didn’t get to say anything to him or shake his hand it was so awesome to be that close to him. I’m pretty sure that’s the closest I’ve ever been to an apostle let alone the President of the church. It was so amazing!!
