Thursday, September 22, 2011

thee hand shake

today was like any other thursday. i work up at 7:00am to head into work. got my cream of wheat with brown sugar from the kitchen. got to my floor and quickly went to work. The day went by so fast because i was by myself for half of it.  It was around 4:30pm when myself and another employee took a patient back to the Patient Tower (we are in the heart and lung). we made a short cut through same day surgery and just as we about to turn the bed left to the employee/patient elevators i get this warm feeling inside me. i seriously have no idea why, then i see this man in a nice suit come out of where we were going. he takes a step back, looks at a person that was behind him then keeps walking. the next minute President Monson is standing right in front of me. I think he could tell that i wanted to say something because he slowed down. I  stopped pushing the bed and asked him if i could shake his hand ( but in reality i wanted to give him a hug, which i did almost ask him) he reached out his hand and gave me a nice firm but comforting hand shake. and as i shook his hand i began to cry and told him. "ahh your making me cry." and he smiled to me and said "oh dont cry" before his body guards whisked him away. After that for a good 15 minutes i was in light tears, if that makes since. I had to call my mom as soon as possible to tell her what happened. That feeling that i got with being around him i wanted to come back. Seeing him and feeling his strong spirit just reminded me how much i love my heavenly father and that i know that he died for us. That our church is the true church, and that one day i will be with him again. It also reminded me of what i need to be doing here on earth. Going to church every week, paying my tithing, going to the temple weekly, saying my prays and reading my scriptures and just keeping that commandments. The feeling i had today will be added to one the many best feelings i have ever felt in my life. I still cant believe i shook hands with the man that goes into that little room in the Salt Lake Temple (people remind me of the room) and prays to and is told what to do first hand by our heavenly father. what a spiritual, powerful feeling i felt from him (even before i actually saw him). Today was seriously a great memorial day.

2 comments:

  1. hahahaha that's so funny. I have had the privilege of seeing/helping/talkign to him often since I moved up here 5 years ago. I love listening to him talk during conference in the capacity of prophet but day to day I feel like he's just another guy/ the president of our church. I'm glad you were recommitted to be a better person after just a handshake. You're a better person than I am. HaHaHa. I seriously take interacting with him for granted.

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  2. is it normal for me to read this and cry? probably not. it's fine though, it's the good kind of cry. the i-love-this-gospel-and-love-president-monson sort of cry.

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