Comments on: Personal interactions with Apostles.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:54:49 +0000

Once Elder Scott came to a stake priesthood meeting and after the meeting we all lined up to shake his hand. I was young and a new convert to the church so I was really excited to meet him. But I was also a shy person so I was pretty nervous to talk to him face to face.

When I got up to shake his hand I meant to say something like “it’s an honor to shake your hand sir” but to my horror I was so nervous that what came out of my mouth sounded something like “wha wha blah blah blah”. I was completely tongue tied. It was also very loud in the stake center so it was hard to hear myself. But it sounded sort of like the people on the phone on Charlie Brown episodes.

Elder Scott smiled and said “we had a great audience tonight”. I walked away wondering what he was thinking. I’ve joked that maybe he thought I was speaking in tongues or something.

By: BJohnson

BJohnson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:01:16 +0000

When I was age 18, President Benson attended a sacrament meeting in my ward (he had a summer home in the area). After the meeting concluded I was one of the first to rush into the receiving line.

When I reached him, he took one look at me and simply asked, “Coming or going?” I immediately caught his meaning and barked out “Going in eight months!” “Good!” he exclaimed and then immediately moved on to the next person in line.

By: Diann Rasi-Koskinen

Diann Rasi-Koskinen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:49:58 +0000

My dear friend,an accomplished pianist, was playing background music at an event in the Joseph Smith Building. Many notable people were coming and going through the area where she was playing. Enter Elder Neal Maxwell:he came over to her at the piano, pulled up two chairsâ€”one to sit on, and one to prop his feet up on, leaned back, closed his eyes and listened for several minutes with a sublime look on his face. Her service and talent was barely noticed by manyâ€”this attention to “the one,” speaks of kindness,character, soul, and spirit possessed by our beloved leadersâ€”as many have also spoken of.

By: observer

observer — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:27:14 +0000

3 experiences meeting apostles–all on a mission:

First two were at the same time, Elder Eyring and Elder Packer. I went through a receiving line and shook both their hands. Obviously a good experience, but nothing out of the ordinary.

The third experience was very different. Went through a receiving line again shaking the hands of various general authorities and their wives (all Seventies). Elder Nelson was at the end of the receiving line. When I reached to shake his hand, I was literally stunned–and I mean STUNNED. He kindly asked my name and I barely squeaked it out. I was stunned because I literally felt the mantle of the apostleship upon him when I met him for that brief moment, and I now KNEW he was a special witness of Jesus Christ.

I had never experienced that before and have never experienced that since.

By: Jacob J

Jacob J — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:46:17 +0000

Did you know an Elder Dallin Oaks?

To which I replied, “Oh, of the quorum of the twelve?”

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:33:19 +0000

I met Elder Oaks at a stake conference. He asked me where I had served my mission. He told me his son had served in the same mission (though many years before me). He said, “Perhaps you knew him. Did you know an Elder Dallin Oaks?”

I just thought that was so funny–Had I known his son, it’s quite likely I would have drawn a correlation given the name. “Wait, DALLIN Oaks? You’re his dad?! Get outta here!”

To me, it just demonstrated his humble nature.

By: BigD

BigD — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:55:09 +0000

I know exactly who the general authority without the arm is. He is Elder John B. Dickson of the first quorum. I believe he served in the Asia area presidency during the early 2000′s but that is all I know about him.

By: Riley

Riley — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:24:41 +0000

jose,

If anyone else notices, before one of the saturday session the camera view showed the First Presidency walking down the line shaking the other apostles hands and Pres. Monson gave Elder Hale the Fonz shake.

As for my own personal Apostle story, my wife is from Cokeville Wyoming and every July 24th they have the Cokeville Celebration to which Elder Perry(“L Tom” as he’s refered to here)attends every year (his wife is from there). Typically he brings other Authorities to speak but my favorite memory was when I was able to eat at the table next to him. He walked by (in his cowboy hat and jeans) and said to me “Are you going to eat all of that food!?” To which I nervously stuttered “umm, you can have it if you want”. His reply was “oh you’re giving up that easy eh.”

By: jose

jose — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:23:29 +0000

As a youth, Elder Faust came to our stake conference. After the conference, I went to the stand and shook his hand–not a traditional handshake, but like the Fonz would do it. I never got to the snap.

By: psychochemiker

psychochemiker — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:41:21 +0000

Elder Eyring came to our Stake for Stake Conference. We had an early morning priesthood meeting for the leadership. At the end of our meeting they asked us not to shake hands with Elder Eyring, so when we stood, and all the rest of the Elder’s offered their hands, I didn’t. Later, I went to the rest-room before the meeting, and who’d I meet but Elder Eyring. At the time my hair was fairly long. He asked me if I had served a mission I said yes and where. Then he said, “Don’t return too much from your mission.”

He gave a great talk that day, which I still share in Sunday School when appropriate.