I think often of another boy. We met him at a seminary graduation in a remote city in Argentina. He was well clothed and well nourished. The students came down the aisle up to the stand. There were three rather high steps.
He could not make the first step because his legs were too short. He was a dwarf. It was then we noticed marching behind him two stalwart young men who stepped forward, one on either side, and lifted him gracefully to the podium. When the service was over, they lifted him down again and then marched out with him. They were his friends and watched over him.
This boy could not reach the first step without being lifted up by his friends. Those who come into the Church come as children spiritually. They need someone—some friend—to lift them up.
If we design the steps after baptism to fit only those who have long, strong legs, we ignore what the Lord said in the revelations. We must be careful lest we make that first step too high or design it for those with strong, long legs and leave the others without some friend to lift them up.
When His disciples asked what kind of men they ought to be, Jesus set a little child in their midst see Matt. A deep concern for children and their parents is in my mind and heart and soul. Now in my 78th year, I understand what President Kimball was seeing; I know what he meant.
That boy in Cuzco and the one in Japan and the other children about the world profoundly influence what I think and how I feel and what I pray for most earnestly.
I constantly think of little children and their parents who struggle to raise them in ever more perilous times. Like my Brethren, I have traveled all over the world. Like my Brethren, I have held positions of trust in education, in business, in government, and in the Church. I have written books, and, like them, have received honors, degrees, certificates, plaques. Such honors come with the territory and are undeserved. Assessing the value of those things, the one thing I treasure more than any of them—more than all of them put together—the thing of most value to me is how our sons and daughters and their husbands and wives treat their children and how, in turn, our grandchildren treat their little ones.
When it comes to understanding our relationship with our Heavenly Father, the things my wife and I have learned as parents and grandparents that are of most worth knowing, we have learned from our children.
This blessing has come to me as a gift from my wife. I bear witness that the gospel is true, and the power of it is to bless little children. I pray earnestly that the children and youth and their parents will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, that it will be a guide and a protection to them, that it will bear in their hearts the testimony that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Only Begotten of the Father.
The Daily Universe. President of the Quorum of the Twelve Boyd K. Vaccine Exemption Bill passed in Utah Legislature. After the fever finally subsided he was allowed to get up, but he could not walk.
He remembers clearly sliding around on the linoleum floor and pulling himself up on chairs to learn to walk again. It resulted in lifelong difficulties with his knees and hips.
I just moved on through life. After graduation from high school, he worked for a time on construction of an army hospital in his hometown. In the spring of , he enlisted in the Army Air Force and graduated as a pilot the following year. He was ordered to the Pacific Theater and stationed in Japan for nearly a year after the end of the war. They were married on July 27, , in the Logan Utah Temple. Packer and his wife Donna were married in the Logan Utah Temple. It was Boyd K. Those were busy years.
In addition to functioning in local Church callings—teacher, assistant stake clerk, and high councilor—he began teaching seminary in The same army hospital in Brigham City that he had helped to build had been turned into a federally run school for Indian students, and from until mid the young seminary teacher, employed by the Church Educational System, also served as Coordinator of Indian Affairs at the school.
In that role, it was his opportunity to work frequently with Elder Spencer W. He often gave his children practical gifts: toolboxes, paintbrushes, shovels.
On one side of the house was a workshop, where parents or children could tackle large projects. During the apostles' traditional July break, Packer always had a project — build a shed or fence, dig a pond, repair a car. He taught himself WordPerfect.
He took up bird-watching and learning new languages. He sculpted or painted pictures, some of which made up his exhibit at the Museum of Church History and Art, "Lifework of an Amateur Artist. Packer summed up his assessment of any life, including his own, in the conclusion of his book, "A Christmas Parable.
Oaks, center, helps President Boyd K. His talk included thoughts about the family and abortion. Hinckley on February 2, McKay, June Packer kneeling front-left with a bomber crew during World War II, Packer leaves the October general conference with his wife, Donna. Hunter and Boyd K. Packer at general conference, s. Packer shaking hands with President Spencer W. Kimball at general conference, s. Packer holding the new editions of the scriptures, Packer speaking at Utah State University, s.
This photo was taken September Packer and Elder and Sister Gordon B. Hinckley, s in Montevideo, Uruguay. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaks at the Sunday afternoon session of general conference, April 6, Packer, his wife Donna and their son Elder Allan F.
Packer of the Seventy and his wife Terri participated in the cornerstone and dedication of the Brigham City Utah Temple. President Packer was born and raised in Brigham City and began teaching seminary there before becoming a general authority. Elder Allan F. Monson greets President Boyd K. Packer during the October general conference. Packer was sustained as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 6, Donate to the newsroom now.
The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. Mormon leader Boyd K. Packer dies — a man of wit, known for tough talk The Brigham City native, who served more than 45 years as an apostle, gave bold speeches and tackled tough topics but could be lighthearted and playful.
July 24, , p. Updated: Aug. Longtime Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer seemed a man of contradictions. Tribune file photo Boyd K.
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