Sweethearts

For Valentines Day here is a story of true life sweethearts to touch your hearts. As I read the article in the Deseret Morning News I got choked up. (Thanks to Jamie M. for the link to the article.) I'm a romantic, what can I say. Here is the gist of the article. Recently James Faust, a leader in the LDS church passed away and then EXACTLY 6 months later his wife did.

"Surely his almost storybook romance is among the sweetest in the annals of the LDS church," Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, said at President Faust's funeral. "Ruth Faust adored James E. Faust—everything he did and said, every act or deed or gesture melted her. He felt the same way about her, and they were 'melted.'"

Granddaughter Nicole recalled his reaction at Christmastime 1994, when the family gathered to watch President Faust open a portrait of his wife they had urged her to have taken as a gift for his office. As he unwrapped it "he pumped his fist in the air as he let out a Portuguese expression meaning 'wonderful!' Then family members became absolutely silent as he continued to look at the picture, and then he began to shake as tears rolled down his cheeks. He was so touched he couldn't speak.

And this is my favorite:

"With all my heart I want to thank Ruth Wright Faust for letting me share her life and giving me the hope that we can share eternity together," President Faust said in 1973 when he was called as an assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve. "She is more than a wife and a sweetheart because she has become part of my very being."

Happy Valentines Day to my sweetheart JASON!