Today, President Thomas S. Monson addressed BYU at the Tuesday Devotional. When I heard he was going to be speaking, I was so excited to have the opportunity to hear him speak live. As quickly as we could, my friends and I gatherd a pad, sleeping bags, and a tent. We had the genius idea to camp out so that we could get prime seating.
When we got there, it as already about one in the morning, and there were about 75 people ahead of us camping. Being the Eagle Scouts that we are, we felt that it would be much better to sleep under the stars rather then take the three minuites to put up the tent...I mean tents are overrated right?-Wrong.
At about three oclock in the morning, it started to steadily rain. And it was cold. And we had no tent. As I started huddling with the people around me, I suddenly felt like best friends with the once strangers camping around us. Doing the only thing I thought would be sane, I dove to the bottom of my sleeping bag and let the torrential rain lull me to sleep. It was only when I was being woken up this morning that I realized how wet it really was. My clothes were soaked, the water had gone right through my sleeping bag, and the memory foam pad we were using had effectivly soaked up ALL of the water.
Climbing out of my sleeping bag, with bedhead, squinty eyes, completly soaked, and sporting my American Flag pajama bottoms...I had the wonderful opportunity to see most of my ward standing in line right next to me, all dressed in white shirts and ties staring at me...
Though I woke up drenched, I got little sleep, and my ward got to see a side of my I hope no one ever has to see again, it was well worth it to be three rows up from a Prophet of the Lord.
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