The couple had three children, eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Frances died in at the age of Throughout his life, Monson was an avid fisherman who also raised homing pigeons, specifically, roller pigeons who twirled as they flew. He was known for his love of show tunes, Boy Scouts and the Utah Jazz. The change triggered a historic influx of missionaries, and proved a milestone change for women by allowing many more to serve.
Out of respect for Monson, his successor will not be officially named until after his funeral services on Jan. Eyring and Dieter Uchtdorf, they would go back to being regular members of the Quorum.
That is always reserved for the longest-tenured member of the Quorum. Once Nelson assumes the presidency, that distinction will fall to year-old Dallin H. The other opening was created when leader Robert D. Hales died last October. AP writer Michelle A. Monroe in Phoenix contributed to this report. This story has been corrected to show that Russell M.
Holland in Said Elder Richard G. He made friends wherever he went and counted friendships as his greatest blessings. Born in Salt Lake City on Aug. Monson, the second of six siblings, was raised in an apartment duplex at W.
His mother was a homemaker, his father a printer. In August , when Tom was 10 days from his 18th birthday, just after the atomic bombs had been dropped and with the wartime draft still in effect, his father accompanied him to the recruiting station in Salt Lake City so he could enlist. He chose the U. Two and a half accelerated years later he graduated with honors from the School of Business, and in the fall of he married Frances Johnson, a fellow Ute he met at a school dance. He did not serve a full-time mission as a young man, hardly a harbinger of what was to come.
The call as bishop of the Sixth-Seventh Ward came when Tom and Frances had barely been married a year, and two years before their first son, Thomas Lee Monson, was born in Their daughter, Ann, came along in , when President Monson was serving in the stake presidency, and their third and final child, Clark, was born in Canada in when his father was serving as mission president there.
After college he worked in the newspaper business, first as an ad salesman for the Deseret News, and, later, as a printer, like his father. He was general manager of Deseret News Press and launching a promising career as a printing executive when he was called to the Quorum of the Twelve in His wife of 64 years preceded him in death in His posterity includes his three children, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
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President Thomas S. Monson: 'No one in our time has been called so young to do so much'. Reddit Pocket Email Linkedin. Grid View. Monson on Friday, Feb. Monson after a cultural program on Nov. Jeffrey D. Monson, bottom right. Hunter, 86, sits between his two counselors, Presidents Gordon B. No plan. No objective. No goal. The road to anywhere is the road to nowhere, and the road to nowhere leads to dreams sacrificed, opportunities squandered, and a life unfulfilled.
Unlike the youthful hitchhiker, you and I have the God-given gift to choose the direction we go. Indeed, the apostle Paul likened life to a race with a clearly defined goal. So run, that ye may obtain. Actually, the prize belongs to him who endures to the end. When I reflect on the race of life, I remember another race, even from childhood days. Perhaps a shared experience from this period will assist in formulating answers to these significant and universally asked questions.
When I was about ten, my boyfriends and I would take pocketknives in hand and from the soft wood of a willow tree fashion small toy boats. With a triangular-shaped cotton sail in place, each would launch his crude craft in a race down the relatively turbulent waters of the Provo River. During such a race, we noted that one boat led all the rest toward the appointed finish line.
Suddenly, the current carried it too close to a large whirlpool, and the boat heaved to its side and capsized. Around and around it was carried, unable to make its way back into the main current. At last it came to rest at the end of the pool, amid the flotsam and jetsam which surrounded it, held fast by the fingerlike tentacles of the grasping green moss. The toy boats of childhood had no keel for stability, no rudder to provide direction, and no source of power.
We have been provided divine attributes to guide our destiny. We entered mortality not to float with the moving currents of life, but with the power to think, to reason, and to achieve.
Yes, I speak of prayer. I speak, too, of the whisperings from that still, small voice within each of us; and I do not overlook the holy scriptures, written by mariners who successfully sailed the seas we too must cross. Individual effort will be required of us. What can we do to prepare? How can we assure a safe voyage? First, we must visualize our objective. What is our purpose? In this one sentence we are provided not only a well-defined goal, but also the way we might achieve it.
Second, we must make continuous effort. The visit of the Master to His disciples on the way to Emmaus, the good Samaritan on the road to Jericho, even Nephi on his return to Jerusalem, and Father Lehi en route to the precious land of promise. Let us not overlook Joseph Smith on the way to Carthage, and Brigham Young on the vast plains to the valley home of the Saints.
Third, we must not detour from our determined course. In our journey we will encounter forks and turnings in the road. There will be the inevitable trials of our faith and the temptations of our times. We simply cannot afford the luxury of a detour, for certain detours lead to destruction and spiritual death.
Let us avoid the moral quicksands that threaten on every side, the whirlpools of sin, and the crosscurrents of uninspired philosophies. His tune is ever so old, his words ever so sweet. His prize is everlasting. He seeks not the refuse of humanity but the very elect of God. King David listened, then followed, then fell.
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