Speaking of books, I get to do another LDS book giveaway, just in time for General Conference. Here's the description: " Consider the Blessings presents fifty of the true accounts President Thomas S. Monson has shared over the past fifty years. With beautiful photographs and heart-touching content, this is a book to treasure with the whole family."
To enter the giveaway, share a favorite story or teaching from or about or related to President Monson -- either one he has shared himself or one you have heard shared about him.
The one catch for this giveaway is that the winner gets to write a review to be posted here! :) So with your entry, please pick a date in October for posting a review. This allows me to get information DB requires to mail out a book to the winner. Also, if you haven't yet liked Deseret Book on Facebook, you'll want to do that, too.
Here's my contribution to the conversation. Following are two posts that I love about President Monson and his ministering love and the difference it has made in individual people's lives. When I hear stories like these, I imagine the Savior and how He would minister personally to those around Him. And how we each need to seek to follow the Spirit (as Stephanie did) so that we can be instruments to help others, to be on His errand.
http://mormonwoman.org/2010/06/29/meeting-the-prophet-on-the-roadside-in-gila-valley/
http://diapersanddivinity.com/2013/09/04/in-which-president-monson-turned-my-stressful-week-around/
I loved in General Conference how he spoke of his wife, Francis, with such love and pride, and how he also poked fun at himself by sharing her humour relating the note she left for their kids, stating " ‘Dear children, do not let Daddy touch the microwave’ — followed by a comma ‘or the stove, or the dishwasher, or the dryer.’ I’m embarrassed to add any more to that list.” His love for all obviously started in the walls of his own heart and home.
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