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This post focuses on October 1972 General Conference talk and it is called, "What Is a Friend?" by Marvin J. Ashton. This post is part two. I hope you will learn something new while reading throughout this post.
Marvin mentioned the following, "Please share this recent experience I had while visiting in South America. I was traveling with a mission president 200 miles from his office. Word reached him one of his elders was in the hospital with a ruptured appendix. His condition was grave because of the six-to seven-hour delay in getting medical attention. The mission president gave immediate instructions by telephone, getting the best physician possible, leading sixty missionaries assembled in zone conference in united prayer. He and his wife were at the elder’s bedside the following morning. Prayers continued, medical attention increased, companions took turns sitting at his bedside around the clock. Parents in Idaho were notified. “The best is being done for your son. We feel he will make it. Please have your family join us in our prayers.”
Here was friendship in action. Here was a friend at work. Here was an example of leaving the ninety and nine for the immediate attention of the one.
No greater reward can come to any of us as we serve than a sincere “Thank you for being my friend.” When those who need assistance find their way back through and with us, it is friendship in action. When the weak are made strong and the strong stronger through our lives, friendship is real. If a man can be judged by his friends, he can also be measured by their heights.
How can we help a friend? An Arabian proverb helps us answer: “A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
Yes, a friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am but who is willing and able to leave me better than he found me. ... I pray God to help us to be friends. We need God’s friendship. He pleads for ours. God lives. He is near. He is available."
Feel free to read the whole talk either now or in your own time, here's the link below.
www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1972/10/what-is-a-friend
Marvin mentioned the following, "Please share this recent experience I had while visiting in South America. I was traveling with a mission president 200 miles from his office. Word reached him one of his elders was in the hospital with a ruptured appendix. His condition was grave because of the six-to seven-hour delay in getting medical attention. The mission president gave immediate instructions by telephone, getting the best physician possible, leading sixty missionaries assembled in zone conference in united prayer. He and his wife were at the elder’s bedside the following morning. Prayers continued, medical attention increased, companions took turns sitting at his bedside around the clock. Parents in Idaho were notified. “The best is being done for your son. We feel he will make it. Please have your family join us in our prayers.”
Here was friendship in action. Here was a friend at work. Here was an example of leaving the ninety and nine for the immediate attention of the one.
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| "A friend Cares. A friend Shows love. A friend Listens. A friend Reaches out." - Thomas S. Monson. |
How can we help a friend? An Arabian proverb helps us answer: “A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
Yes, a friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am but who is willing and able to leave me better than he found me. ... I pray God to help us to be friends. We need God’s friendship. He pleads for ours. God lives. He is near. He is available."
Feel free to read the whole talk either now or in your own time, here's the link below.
www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1972/10/what-is-a-friend
Stay Tuned until next time.
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