Compiled by Dennis B. Horne
At Pres. Marion G. Romney’s funeral, Elder
Boyd K. Packer shared this experience:
On one occasion, we were holding a meeting of
mission presidents in Geneva, Switzerland. He arrived a day late, having spent
a day in England to work on a very difficult problem for the First Presidency.
We met him at the airport. I’d never seen him so tired. I pushed my way through
the attendants and walked back where he was waiting for his luggage and he
stood there, looked at me, and finally said, “Hello. What do we have going
tonight?” I said, “Oh, I think maybe you’d better rest.” But he thought he’d
better meet with us.
As we gathered, the rest of the agenda was suspended and he talked to us. Perhaps because he was weary and less guarded in what he might have otherwise said, he spoke openly of inspiration and the process by which we receive divine direction. And then he told us more than he had said publicly about an event in the growth of his testimony.