'Golden friend' receives visit from President and Sister Monson

President Thomas S. Monson has said that he likes the quotation, "New

friends are silver, but old friends are gold."

__IMAGE2__On April 8, he met with one of his golden friends, Thelma Wooley Fetzer,

who turned 100 on that day.

President Monson and his wife, Sister Frances Johnson Monson, walked

into Thelma Fetzer's living room that afternoon, bringing with them not

only smiles and heartfelt birthday wishes but also warm memories gathered

during their long friendship that goes back more than 60 years.

Their association began even before the time President Monson was bishop

of Sixth-Seventh Ward in Salt Lake City's Temple View Stake from 1950-55. Thelma Fetzer's husband, Percy K. Fetzer, was a counselor in the stake

presidency. When he became stake president, he called President

Monson to serve as one of his counselors. Percy Fetzer passed away in

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