He was the people’s prophet.
It wasn’t just the fact that he led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for nearly 13 years, or traveled almost a million miles to conduct the church’s business, or helped spread the faith and its message in ways few could have imagined a decade ago.
As President Gordon B. Hinckley confessed to church members worldwide during a recent general conference, “I love you.”
Novel” align=”right” hspace=”2″ vspace=”2″ /> And they loved him back in a personal way at his viewing on Thursday, coming by the thousands to the Conference Center downtown, in cars and buses; on bikes and on TRAX; lugging backpacks and bags and briefcases; in wheelchairs and strollers; walking briskly and slowly; with canes and crutches and walkers and tiny children in tow.
They are old and young, able-bodied and feeble, missionaries with tags and many more without them. They came in suits and dresses as well as jeans and parkas, a mixture of people typical in any Utah suburb %26#151; most of them Latter-day Saints, but many of them believers of a different stripe.
As they filed quietly into the center he built to help spread what Mormons believe is God’s message around the globe, the reverence and the love was palpable.
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