Read the full talk, “Be a Light to the World,” given at a BYU devotional on Nov. 1, 2011 (LDS Living – 6 Stories from President Monson (That He’s Never Told At General Conference)) (I love the joke that begins this talk, to the testimony at the end.)
Update.
- Brother Christensen has indicated that he loves to return to Oxford. Most of the people there are either students or tourists who have come to look at a beautiful university. But he loves to return there because it’s a sacred place to him, and he can look at the windows of that room where he lived, and he recognizes it as the place where he learned that Jesus is the Christ and that Joseph Smith was the prophet of the restoration for the true church.
I have neighborhoods in Green River, Wyoming and in Ogden, Utah that I have returned to which have what I consider sacred places to me.
Made me tear up to visit this again even on Maps.
As a fifth grader, two steps beyond the end if that playground fence onto the gas station lot, heading up the hill to home in a heavy ice storm:
Visit your’s:
The story in Brother Christensen’s own words.
