Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: November 19, 2019 03:41PM
Ah Susan....
"President Hinckley told Elder Bednar the only person he could tell about his new position was Susan, but she was anxious to share the news with their children.
“I said, ‘Surely we can tell our sons. This is the most important day of your whole life,'” Susan told Elder Bednar. One of their boys was attending Brigham Young University in Provo, another lived in Texas and the third was in North Carolina. Susan wanted them to be in attendance for the announcement the following morning.
“I kept asking and he kept saying no,” Susan says with a smile. “Finally I asked him one more time and he looked at me and said, ‘Martin!'”
Elder Bednar was referring to Martin Harris, one of the first members of the LDS Church who repeatedly asked Joseph Smith if he could show 116 pages of the Book of Mormon to family members. After telling him no a few times, Smith finally agreed to the request and Harris ended up losing the pages.
“I was just trying to be true to what President Hinckley told me to do,” Elder Bednar says with a smile."
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2017/05/20-years-after-arriving-at-ricks-college-the-bednars-reflect-on-life/