General Authority Run-ins

Because I work at Deseret Book Headquarters AND the Church Headquarters I occasionally run into different General Authorities. Thought I would share a few of my run ins.

Sister Silvia Allred is the First Counselor in the General Relief Society Presidency. We were doing some work on their website and had to go to the RS Building. We saw her in the tunnels and said Hi. She's super nice.


Yesterday, I rode the elevator up 18 floors with Bishop Burton. We chatted about the beautiful fall weather we are having. Very friendly guy.

Elder Russell M. Nelson just recently had a new book published and needed a few boxes delivered to his office. Since I work in the mail room at DB, I got to take them over. Normally I just deliver them to their assistants, but he happened to be there and I delivered them directly to him. I was little surprised to see him at his desk, but I said hi and he did the same. We didn't say a whole lot, but I left feeling like I had just met a very powerful and spiritual man.

Elder Dallin H. Oaks - I only saw him briefly in the lunch room they have in the Admin building on my way to make a delivery.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland - I delivered a few boxes of books for him and he seemed to come out of thin air. I'd just come down the empty hallway, through his doorway to greet his assistant, and all of a sudden he was holding the door for me to pull my hand truck through. He said, "Hello" and asked how I was doing. Sweet, genuine guy.

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf saw me sweating while holding a heavy stack of boxes, waiting for the elevator. He mentioned that the boxes, did indeed look heavy. Unsure of what to say, I smiled and said.."Oh..they're not too bad." He smiled and left to go meet with President Monson.

My whole goal is to not say something stupid...sometimes I succeed and sometimes I just blow it. Oh well. It still totally makes my day to see them. It's almost surreal to see them in everyday situations. They're regular people, but you can tell that they have a special calling and there is a powerful spirit that they all have with them.

Disneyland Photos

Alan came through and sent the pictures. Enjoy!

In front of the Mantterhorn

Splash Mountain - you'll notice you can't see me. I'm third back, but hiding behind Jason as to not get as wet. My strategy worked and Jason took my share of the splash.

For Halloween and the Christmas season, they decorate the Haunted Mansion up with a Nightmare before Christmas theme.

If I look tired, it's because I was. We had gone surfing that morning and it had wiped me out pretty good. ;)

They had some cool decorations.

We should have taken more pictures of other rides we went on, but we were having too much fun and forgot.

Pictures of Rowe

So...I borrowed a few pictures from Michelle's facebook account of Rowe. Hope she won't mind. :)

Rowe's Blessing

On Sunday, Rowe had his baby blessing. His daddy did a really good job. It was cool experience, but what made it even more memorable was the fact that he was blessed in the presence of 3 Apostles. Judson and Michelle live with her parents and they happen to live in a ward with a few General Authorities. They are: President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Elder Robert D. Hales, and Elder David A. Bednar. All 3 of them happen to be there on Sunday. :) How cool is that?

Conference Weekend

Here I am with part of the Web Media team in the Audiovisual Department that worked Saturday during General Conference. We were backstage at the Conference Center making sure that the world would have each session in 4 different languages (English, ASL, Spanish, and Portuguese). We would post the sessions to the web site after Conference had aired live. So...in other words...if you didn't get to watch or listen to conference you can right now. Just go here: http://www.lds.org/move/index.html?type=conference&event=Oct179&lang=english

For the first time in history, we posted the Priesthood session online after it had aired live. Very cool!

It was a really cool experience even though I didn't get much out of conference. I'll have to go back and listen to Saturday's session myself.

Quick trip to California

So I'm behind and have lots to catch up on. A few weeks ago I flew to California to see my brother Alan. He has been gone since May doing summer installs for security systems and he was finally getting ready to come home. He has never been to Disneyland and since all of his friends had already gone home in August, he was trying to find someone to go with. I jokingly suggested that if he flew me out there, I'd love to go with him. Well...he said yes. So the next day I was there. We had a fun filled weekend that included surfing and Disneyland. It was a fun trip. Here are a few random pictures. The Disneyland pictures are on Alan's camera, so I'll have to get those up later.

Jason came along too. This was his first time on a plane. Here we are at the airport, excited and ready to go.

While driving around Long Beach, we saw this sign, that was just too funny.

*More pictures of Disneyland will come as soon as I can get Alan to send them to me. *

Baby Rowe

So...the little guy has a name. Rowe Judson Jennings. He gets his middle name from his daddy, and the first name was inspired by the story of John Rowe Moyle, a stonecutter who worked on the Salt Lake Temple.

Here is Uncle Kyle and Rowe.