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Sunday Session 4, Talk 6 – Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church, Prophet

My Notes:

• Service
• “Often we live side by side, but do not communicate heart to heart.”
• Story of Father who asked “What did you do for someone today?” at the dinner table each night.
• King Benjamen “When you are in the service of your fellow beings, you are only int he service of your God.”
• Savior taught us “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. But whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.”
• He is telling us that unless we lose ourselves for service to others, there’s little purpose to our own lives.
• “Man’s greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.” – President David O. McKay
• At Baptism – covenanted to bear one another’s burden that they may be light.
• Warm Fuzzies! Embodied by little things in a jar! 🙂
• Notes from children who helped others:
  • “My grandpa had a stroke and i held his hand”
  • “My sister and I served my family by organizing and cleaning the toy closet. It took us a few hours and we had fun. The best part was that we surprised my mom and made her happy because she didn’t ask us to do it!”
  • “There was a family in my ward that did not have a lot of money. They have 3 little girls and mom and dad had to go somewhere, so I offered to watch the three girls. The dad was just about to hand me a 5 dollar bill. I said “I can’t take it”. My service was that I watched the girls for free.”
  • Mongolia – “Brought water from a well so his mother would not have to do so”
  • “My dad has gone for army training for a few weeks. My special job is to give my mom hugs and kisses”
  • “I picked strawberries for my great grandma. I felt good inside.”
  • “I played with a lonely kid.”
  • “I went to a ladies house and asked her questions. And sang her a song. It felt good to visit her. She was happy because she never gets visitors.”
• Elder Richard L. Evens of the Quorum of the Twelve:”It isn’t easy for those who are young to understand the loneliness that comes when life changes from a time of preparation and performance to a time of putting things away. To be so long the center of a home, so much sought after, then almost suddenly to be on the sidelines watching the precession pass by, this is living into loneliness. We have to live a long time to learn how empty a room can be that is filled only with furniture. It takes someone beyond hired service, beyond institutional care, or professional duties to thaw out the memories of the past and keep them warmly living in the present. We cannot bring them back, the morning hours of youth. But we can help them live in a warm glow of a sunset made more beautiful by our thoughtfulness and unfeigned love.”
• Matthew Chapter 25 quoted.