98. Meeting President David O. McKay, and about his life.
Many years ago I had the opportunity and blessing to meet President David O. McKay in person. I wish I could remember it more clearly. The first time was with a Seminary class while I was in high school. Growing up in St. George during that time, we didn't get to Salt Lake City often, and each spring the Seminary students took a trip up, and toured the Church Office building, and saw the Tabernacle, Salt Lake Temple, and other interesting places there. The tall Church Office building wasn't built for many years after. I remember what a gracious and polite gentleman he was. Around this same time, Wayne was on a mission in Sweden, and the highlight of his mission was having Pres. David O. McKay, and his wife Emma Ray Riggs McKay, when they were making a tour of missions in Europe. Wayne took the photo below. A few years later, we were living in the Salt Lake Valley, and President McKay was returning from an airplane trip to Scotland, where his ancestors came from.