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Elder Hales’ neighbor who, despite “wild party,”
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Salt Lake City, UT-- More details have leaked out about an
October, post-General Conference Quorum of the Twelve party that at least one
participant described as “out of control.” According to an unnamed source, the party,
which this year was at elder Robert D. Hales’ home, had “more caffeine-free Diet Coke
and Fig Newtons than even last year’s blowout—and we all know how crazy that
one got!”
Many attribute the unprecedented initiation of three new
apostles into the Quorum as the reason why this year’s party was, according to M.
Russell Ballard, “quite the hootenanny!” Elder Ballard, who reported on the
party to staffers at the Church Office Building the next morning, said that “of
course we started with a little Old Testament Pictionary, just to show the
young whippersnappers how serious we were about this shindig, and by the time
we got to the Hymns of the Church Name That Tune, well, as my great grandkids
would put it, it was off the rope (or chain or however that goes).”
“Yes, as always there was quite the revelry,” said Elder
Holland the next morning. He continued, “we were slapping high-fives, swapping
stories about calling new stake presidents, telling the new guys about our
first conference talks—I would even go so far as to say that some of us were on
the verge of a little loud laughter—but I guess that’s just how we march or do
it or roll or whatever.”
According to several staffers, the festivities “really pushed
the envelope—they almost made it to 9:30 this year!” One staffer noted that “some
of the new guys still seemed fresh after 9 o’clock, causing Elders Nelson and Oaks to look on and shake their heads with that look of enjoy-your-youth-while-you-can
on their faces.”
Church staffers also reported that this year’s party had to
be held at Elder Hales’ home since Sister Bednar was “still a little upset after
April and the mess they’d left in the downstairs rumpus room.”
That was super cute!
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