Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018)

Personal revelations from an extraordinary man. Thomas S. Monson, an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, writes with the same wisdom, compassion and humor with which he speaks.

This book is well worth the read, regardless of your religious affiliation.

Just finished this one and I need to get it back to the library. I really enjoyed this book. Some great stories in here. My only complaint is that the stories are mostly quite brief and I would have enjoyed seeing them expanded. But I found several stories to share with my family.

One of the things we most love about President Thomas S. Monson is his willingness to beautifully share personal experiences with us.

Here he tells us of a time when as a little boy he made a poor decision.

In his mind he thought it would work out so perfectly.

Just use one little match to burn the weeds that would take forever to pull by hand.

He thought that it would somehow just go out when the circle was big enough for his friends to have a campfire.

But in reality it was not the best of show more plans.

He knew he was doing a wrong by using the match.

Now so many years later he easily could have kept this part of his life from us.

Instead he shares with us to teach us the lesson of obedience.

"Rules and laws are created to keep us safe."

Beautifully told!
Beautifully illustrated!
A book for the whole family! show less

I remember always loving President Monson's stories. So I loved this book. The one thing it lacked was detailed citations (preferably on the page of the story) that listed where they could be found in the talks he had given.