Meeting President and Sister Callister

For the April 2008 conference I was asked if I would work with the H group to assist in getting conference attendees to the right entrances.  On Saturday morning I was out on the plaza directing people to the correct doors when I saw a couple looking around for the right entrance.  As I approached them to offer my assistance, I recognized them as my son’s mission president and his wife.  I went up to them and asked, “How can I help you President and Sister Calister?”  President Calister looked at me, surprised, and said, “Do we know you?”  I explained that I had met them the previous October when my wife and I picked up our son from his mission.   He then looked at my name badge and recognized me as Elder Bredthauer’s dad.  After we chatted for a few minutes he mentioned that it would be good to talk to my son again.  I called home and had my daughter get him out of bed to come to the phone.  President Calister talked to him for a few minutes then hung up the phone so they could get into one of the very long lines. I led them to the shortest one and moved them to the front so they would make it into the building on time. That same day, President Calister was put into the second quorum of the seventies.

Paul Bredthauer