Catch From My Generation To Yours...with Love! Conveyed By Gordon B. Hinckley Depicted In E-Text

book was given to me by my grandmother in my teenage years to encourage me, I read it often and loved it, Little did I know he would one day become the President of the Church, I reread it when he did, I lent it to my daughter when he was the prophet, President Kimball was the prophet when I read it in my youth, awesome book, helped me with a talk a few years back President Hinckley was known, even at the age of, as a tireless leader who always put in a full day at the office and traveled extensively around the world to mix with Church

members, now numbering nearlymillion innations.
His quick wit and humor, combined with an eloquent style at the pulpit, made him one of the most loved of modern Church leaders.
A profoundly spiritual man, he had a great fondness for history and often peppered his sermons with stories from the Churchs pioneer past.
He was a popular interview subject with journalists, appearing onMinutes with Mike Wallace and on CNNs Larry King Live, as well as being quoted and featured in hundreds of newspapers and magazines over the years.
During the Salt Lake Olympics President Hinckley was known, even at the age of, as a tireless leader who always put in a full day at the office and traveled extensively around the world to mix with Church members, now numbering nearlymillion innations.
His quick wit and humor, combined with an eloquent style at the pulpit, made him one of the most loved of modern Church leaders.
A profoundly spiritual man, he had a great fondness for history and often peppered his sermons with stories from the Churchs pioneer past.
He was a popular interview subject with journalists, appearing onMinutes with Mike Wallace and on CNNs Larry King Live, as well as being quoted and featured in hundreds of newspapers and magazines over the years.
During the Salt Lake Olympics of, his request that the Church refrain from proselytizing visitors was credited by media with generating much of the goodwill that flowed to the Church from the international event.
In recent years, a number of major developments in the Church reflected President Hinckleys personal drive and direction, In calling fortemples to be in operation before the end of the year, the Church president committed the Church to a massive temple building program.
Inyears after the Church was organized by its founder, Joseph Smith the Church hadoperating temples, Three years later that number had doubled, largely because of a smaller, highly practical temple architectural plan that delivered these sacred buildings to Church members in far flung parts of the world.
Many Church members can now experience the sacred ceremonies that occur only in temples, including marriages for eternity and the sealing of families in eternal units.
President Hinckley was the most traveled president in the Churchs history, His duties took him around the world many times to meet with Latter day Saints in thancountries, He was the first Church president to travel to Spain, where inhe broke ground for a temple in Madrid and to the African nations of Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Cape Verde, where he met with thousands of Latter day Saints in.
In, he traveled nearly,miles on a seven nation, nine day tour to Russia, South Korea, China, Taiwan, India, Kenya, and Nigeria.
At a general conference of Church members in April, President Hinckley initiated the Perpetual Education Fund an ambitious program to help young members of the Church mainly returning missionaries from developing countries receive higher education and work related training that they would otherwise likely never receive.
Closer to his Salt Lake City home, President Hinckley announced the construction of a new Conference Center inand dedicated it four years later.
Seating,people, it is believed to be the largest religious and theater auditorium in the world and has become the hub for the Churchs general conference messages to the world, broadcast inlanguages.
Even before his term as president, President Hinckleys extensive Church service includedyears as a counselor in the First Presidency, the highest presiding body in the government of the Church, andyears before that as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
President Hinckley was bornJunein Salt Lake City, a son of Bryant Stringham and Ada Bitner Hinckley, One of his forebears, Stephen Hopkins, came to America on the Mayflower, Another, Thomas Hinckley, served as governor of the Plymouth Colony fromto, President Hinckleys first job was as a newspaper carrier for the Deseret News, a Salt Lake City daily, After attending public schools in Salt Lake City, he earned a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Utah and then served two years as a full time missionary for the Church in Great Britain.
He served with distinction and ultimately was appointed as an assistant to the Church apostle who presided over all the Europe sitelink.