President Uchtdorf, Welcome to Los Hermanos!

So the other day at work, on Monday, I was off and just waiting for who knows what, and I happened to be standing at the host desk reluctantly as a couple of women started to come into the building.  I looked down at the hosting paper and looked up, asking them how many.  I looked down as I wrote the number 4, and looked up again, and about a foot in front of my face stood President Uchtdorf, the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of my Church!!! The thought came to my mind...I just saw you on TV yesterday.  Your picture is on my WALL.  Uchtdorf.  President. Whoa..... I am sure my blanched face gave me away, as I looked down and I said, very shyly, "Okay...um...right this way."

I led President Uchtdorf down the aisles as I asked him, his wife and his daughter how their day was and if they would prefer a booth or a table.  His wife, brightly and smiling, asked "Oh! Can we have a table out there in that pretty area?"  We walked towards the doorway to the Garden Room, and President Uchtdorf spoke in German to his wife, pointed to a table right in the middle and asked if they could take that one.  Then he had second thoughts, as there were many people in the room, most of which were probably LDS and probably recognized him, and then he asked me very kindly if he could take a booth in a separate aisle away from the Garden Room. I led them to the booth and in my drunken stupor kept bumping into him.  I tried placing their menus and silverware and that's when I kept running into him as they were trying to sit down at the same time. Haha....When finally they were seated, I looked at them all, smiled, looked at President Uchtdorf, smiled at him, and he smiled right back.  I felt like he looked right into my soul, and at that moment I felt like I was doing alright, because I could look at a Prophet in the eye and feel as though I was in the temple, and I could with confidence feel comfortable in his presence.  What a great feeling!  And then I told them their server would be with them in just a few minutes.

And that is my experience meeting and having the opportunity to very briefly and in a very small way serve a very great servant of the Lord.  For the record, our manager didn't make him pay for his meal, and she thanked him for a talk he gave awhile back, and he thanked her and his server profusely, and gave our manager a big hug as she began tearing up as what he said meant a lot to her.

Come to Los Hermanos, you never know who might show up!