Author: Spencer Charles aka Latterdayhelp| Saturday, July 3| 8 O’clock News MST| No.4
It was a moment in time that didn’t seem to be anything weird—just some teenaged boys hanging out on a summer afternoon, deciding to stop at a local McDonalds for lunch. But for Christian Butler, that one afternoon he went to McDonald’s turned out to be something he likely won’t ever forget.
In an Instagram post shared over the last weekend, Christian’s father shared why the moment was so unforgettable. According to his father, his son was hanging out with some friends in downtown Salt Lake City when a “nice old man” ordered food behind him in line. The two of them started talking about what the other was getting to eat.
“When their bags came, Christian said to the man, ‘If you want to eat with us, we are just sitting over there,” “When I asked my son [Christian] about it, he told me, ‘I just figured he was some nice old lonely man. Thought he might want some company.’”
So the man joined Christian and his friends as they shared fries until he said that his family was at a nearby table and thanked him for the conversation.
“When he walked away, one of Christian’s friends said, ‘I think I know him. I think that man talks in conference.’”
After googling his name, they discovered that the man they were speaking to was no other than President Dallin H. Oaks. And Christian had no idea!
“Some may think he needs to pay more attention in church, but I think he got the message just fine,” Danial (Christian’s father) wrote. “Only wish I had a picture—one of a world I yearn to live in of two strangers trying to make each other’s days, completely unaware but absolutely winning.”
Danial shared that he had “a grin in my soul” as he looked back on the story and kept thinking of Paul’s words in Hebrews 13:1, which reads, “Let brotherly love continue.” He continued with verse 2, which says, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
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