Sunday, February 17, 2008

President Thomas S. Monson

I have come to know President Thomas S. Monson just a little better over the past few weeks. I worked with his sister for 3 years as a teacher and she told us that the childhood stories he shares are exactly what he was like as a child. She (his sister) also shares the same qualities- kind, stalwart, open, fun, etc. I have reflected a lot on all that he has taught (in word and deed) over my lifetime. This morning for the first time I watched the press conference announcing his ordination to be the new president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. View it below if you haven't already.

If there were a scripture that described the love and Christlike service of President Monson, it would be James 1:27 -

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."


1 comment:

2 Webers said...

Thanks for posting the Press Conference with the new Prophet Monson. It was neat to hear his testimony.
-Riley