President Uchtdorf loves Costco too!

May 6, 2008

Last night Julie and all the kids met me at Costco in Bountiful on my way home from work. When we walked out of the frozen foods aisle, I looked across to the books section and was surprised to see President Uchtdorf and his wife, pushing a shopping cart. President Uchtdorf looked very casual in khaki pants and a black and white aloha shirt. He turned into the main aisle and started heading towards the front. It was kind of weird because no one was talking to him. It looked like he was able to shop in relative peace. Oh well, not anymore! I grabbed Peyton and Soren (Julie, Eden, and Logan were in a different aisle with their cart) and pushed our cart with the twins in it to chase him down from behind. I called “President!” and it took a little bit for him to turn around. Maybe, he’s still getting used to that title? But he turned around and was very friendly. He shook our hands and asked Peyton and Soren their names and how old they were. Meanwhile, his wife had gone around to the cart and was oohing and aahing over the twins. She called her husband over and they both played with the twins for a bit. He said they have twin grandsons who are 18 years old. It was kind of funny because while we were talking to him, this lady was walking by talking on her cell phone and got all flustered. “Oh my gosh, uhh, hi, uhh, umm, elder, no, umm, president…ooohh…” and he shook her hand and she walked off.

On the way home, Soren rode in the truck with me. He was in charge of the Family Home Evening lesson last night so I figured we better take advantage of the situation and we planned a little lesson about having prophets on the earth and how cool it was that we got to shake a prophet’s hand. For the lesson we pulled out the conference Ensign and the boys got excited when they saw him in there and could easily pick him out as the man they had met earlier. Peyton and Soren each shared how good they felt inside when they shook his hand and we talked about the spirit. It was a great experience. I’m kicking myself though. I just got this new phone that does EVERYTHING (PDA, Phone, GPS, camera, etc, etc). The phone I’ve had for a while doesn’t have a camera and I’m not in that mode at all. So I missed out on a great photo op. President Uchtdorf in an aloha shirt with Peyton and Soren – that would have been classic!

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