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Elder 15 Jun 2005
"If you want to be remembered... do something that people will remember!" I served in CAM during June 1980 - July 1982. Half way into my mission, The CAM traded up Presidents and all the missionaries said goodbye to President Livingston and welcomed President Charles Grant as our new leader in our part of God's Army. Not long after Pres. Grant took hold of the reins as Mission President, my companion was feeling rather briskly and "popped a wheelie" on his 10-speed just as we were heading out to do the lords work "finding, teaching and baptizing". His mount didn't come back to earth the way it had left, but rather, went all-the-way over and dumped him on the blacktop head first, giving him a slight concussion and leaving me to tend him for a few days in our apartment until he was fit again to go and proclaim the Gospel. The first day at home tending a sleepy and flushed Elder was a long and BORRING 18 hours and I was ecstatic to have the Elders that were sharing our "6-some" with come back for the evening! I shared with them their experiences for the day which gave me new life and revived me to the exstent that I was rather boisterous and excited! I was District Leader at the time and I was exspecting a phone call from the ZL's to get numbers and accounting from me when I heard one of the Elders in our apartment answer the phone and give a short account of the injured Elders condition and then handed me the phone saying, "Elder Kelley, the phone is for you, the ZL's called before while you were in the restroom". I picked up the phone, and thinking it was our ZL, Elder Maben, (now, let me describe Elder Maben, He was double my size and as gentle as a lamb) I greeted him saying " hello ya big fat pig!!!" Remember, I was cooped up all day long with no one to talk to except for a delirious companion who was sleeping most of the time. The voice on the other end of the phone came back slowly, and cautiously saying "E l d e r K e l l e y !" I immediately recognized the voice as being our newly appointed MISSION PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT GRANT, the former Ricks College Football varsity coach! He continued... "I s T h a t t h e w a y y o u a n s w e r t h e p h o n e a s (and his voice grew more stern as if commanding a military to come to attention) AN ELDER OF THE CHURCH? As you can imagine... I stood there with my mouth dropped opened and looked around at the other 4 Elders who also had there mouths dropped open and tried to stutter out an explanation that I thought that it was Elder Maben on the phone and not the MISSION PRESIDENT! The response from President Grant was "Do you always greet your Zone Leader in such a fashion?" "You should be setting an example as a District Leader for the other Elders to follow! You wouldn't want them to be greeting their leaders in such a way each time they had conversation with them now would you?" Each meeting I had with the President after that fateful day began with a glairing look and paused conversation that always reminded me how LOW I felt that evening and how awkward it made me feel with each meeting in the President's office! Years later, my Parent's now serving a mission on Temple Square ran into President Charles Grant at a mission reunion in SLC and introduced them self’s as Elder and Sister Kelley and that their son had served a mission in CAM while you was president there. His first words with them were... "I remember your son... He once called me a "BIG FAT PIG" on the phone and I was really taken back and surprised! So, just ever happened to Elder Kelley after his mission days?" The rest you can probably imagine yourselves! But one thing is for sure, I still find myself sing in my mind the primary song "I hope they call me on a mission... I hope by then I will be ready, to teach and preach and TALK like missionaries do!" knk
Kent N. Kelley Send Email
 
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