Elder Ritter Sighting

Last Friday, Amy and her friends Whitney and Hailey Halford were driving past the MTC on their way to Seven Peaks Water Park. The light turned red just as they approached the crosswalk leading in to the MTC and guess who was crossing as they were stopped at the light? Of course, you can guess. It was Geoff. Whitney and her sister Hailey were in the front seat and they rolled their window down and yelled, "Hey Elder Ritter!" Geoff looked up and smiled and waved. Amy was in the middle seat of the van and Geoff did not see her, but she saw him quite plainly. It was a very emotional experience for her. She called me immediately and told me that she had just seen Geoff. We both cried. It actually surprised us both how quickly tear came. Whitney called her mother to tell her and she cried also. She had just sent her son (Geoff's good friend, Skyler) to the Brazil MTC last Tuesday. She cried because she would never get the experience to see her son walking from the Provo Temple to the MTC and that Skyler is soooo far away. What makes this experience funny is that we got an email from Geoff later that day, since it was his P-day, that explained how he saw Whitney and Hailey. He had no idea that Amy had been in the car and that I had heard the story from her before I heard it from him. I think he will get a kick out of the fact that there are two sides to this story. He told us before he left that he would not greet family members any differently than just someone off the street if he were to bump into us in Provo, so I think Amy played it just right.









(See Geoff's email on www.eldergeoffritter.blogspot.com )