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