Pres. Monson's Surprise Visit to Canada

Look what our beloved prophet was up to this past week-end.

Worldwide Mormon leader made surprise visit to Brampton Sunday
The Brampton Guardian, Wednesday May 28, 2008
Thomas Monson

BRAMPTON - The worldwide leader of the Mormon church made a surprise visit to Brampton on Sunday.
President Thomas S. Monson, who became president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in January, was to speak to all members of the Church in Canada via satellite from Salt Lake City.
The meeting had been scheduled for more than a year.
Instead, President Monson, who has many ties to Canada, decided to have the two-hour meeting broadcast from the Mormon Church building on Bramalea Road.
Only the technicians and a few church leaders were aware he made the switch.
More than 200,000 members and friends in every province and territory watched the telecast which was live via satellite into about 255 church buildings across the country. It was broadcast in nine languages.
President Monson has been a regular visitor to Canada since he served as a mission president in the early 1960s as the leader of more than 150 missionaries in eastern Canada.
He was only 31 when he arrived in Toronto in 1959 for a three-year stay with his wife, Frances, and young family.
His youngest son, Clark, was born in Toronto.
President Monson and his wife and other speakers, who were originally scheduled to speak via satellite from Salt Lake City, flew to Toronto late Saturday and returned to Utah immediately following the telecast.
In his 45 minute talk, President Monson touched on the rich heritage of the church in Canada, mentioning the visits of church founder Joseph Smith to Toronto, Brigham Young, who became the second president, to Kingston, and the pioneers who gave up the luxuries of house and home in the U.S. to settle in southern Alberta.