Well, my young friends, what a thrilling life awaits you! You may not be a John Cabot, sailing off into the blue with the king’s patent to discover new lands, nor a Captain James Cook, whose voyages of discovery carried him to “far away places with strange-sounding names.” 1 But you can be explorers in spirit, with a mandate to make this world better by discovering improved ways of living and of doing things. I’m not certain who would have been more surprised on that occasion had I stayed with the stake president-the student or me! I think it’s rather a good thing we didn’t find out. But, unknown to us and totally unexpectedly, our son returned home from school at two in the morning, came in the front door, walked up the stairs to our bedroom, turned on the light, and yelled, ‘Surprise!’” “Well,” he replied, “we have a son away attending the university, and our anticipation was that we, of course, would have you occupy our bedroom on Saturday evening. The next morning President Lowe greeted me at eight o’clock and said, “Brother Monson, you made an inspired decision.” I responded, “Well, President Lowe, it’s late at night, and, if it’s all the same to you, I’ll stay with your counselor here in Indianapolis.” On one occasion many years ago, while visiting the Indianapolis Stake, I remember President Lowe, who was with Purdue University there, saying to me, “Brother Monson, would you like to come out to my home and stay with us Saturday evening, or would you prefer to forego the 40-mile drive and stay here with my counselor in Indianapolis?” There were occasions when a tiny brother or sister, not knowing that Mother and Dad had given their bedroom and their bed to a General Authority, would creep in the bedroom early in the morning and think that he or she was crawling into bed with Mother and Father-only to be amazed and confused to find that such was not the case. Sometimes, rather interesting things would occur. For many years it was my privilege nearly every week to attend stake conferences and to be in the home of a stake president or a counselor to a stake president. I seek your faith I ask for your prayers.Īs I look at you assembled here and contemplate those of you who are assembled elsewhere, my thoughts turn to your parents. I approach this assignment after earnest personal prayer. It is an honor for me to be with you, and I want you to know that there is nowhere else on earth I would rather be this evening.
You are a glorious group, even a chosen generation, assembled both here in the Marriott Center at Brigham Young University and in many other locations.
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