My First Conference

My first conference as a GSM was October 2007.  The Friday night before conference I got a call from my sister who lives in Colorado.  She asked if I was going to be working at general conference.  I said that I was.  She then asked if I knew where I was going to be working.  I said that we would know our assignments in the morning.  She told me that my niece and her roommates had gotten tickets from there ward in Provo and would be at the morning session.  I got my assignment in the morning and was assigned to help get people into doors nine and ten by having their tickets ready and passing out buckets to put metal items in.  Just before 8:30 AM I went outside and started giving out the buckets.  As I went up the line about 15 people there was my niece.  She was excited to tell her roommates who I was and then called her mom to tell her that she had seen me before she had entered the conference center. 

Paul Bredthauer

The Taxi

I was working the west gate at Temple Square with Gene Low looking for bus tours to arrive.  A taxi cab pulled up and out stepped a man.  I approached him and asked if there was anything I could help him with.  He responded by saying, “What do I have to do to be a Mormon?”  I got on the radio and asked if anyone knew where I could find a sister missionary to help him.  I was told that they were in a meeting.  I looked at the information office at the west gate and two sisters were in there.  I told them about the man and they told me that the other sisters were in prayer meeting and would be available after 9:00 am after their sacrament meeting.  Gene took the man into the north visitor center and waited with him until the sisters had arrived.  Gene told me that he waited and as the sisters came into the visitor center he felt he needed to wait for the right one to come in.  After several sisters had entered he felt that one of them was the correct one to talk to the man.

Paul Bredthauer