Book Review: Sacrament Time

Sacrament Time: A Book for LDS Children, by Kathleen H. Barnes and Virginia H. Pearce, Photographs by Don O. Thorpe, Deseret Book, Salk Lake City, Utah, 1973.
This is just a short book on what children can think about to help them be more reverent during the sacrament.  It suggest thinking of things Jesus did,
Jesus prayed to Heavenly Father,
Jesus helped the sad,
Jesus cared for the Sick,
Jesus fed the hungry,
Jesus helped people in trouble,
Jesus obeyed the law,
Jesus loved.
It suggests thinking of ways we can follow these examples of Jesus during the sacrament.
The illustrations are photographs, often of the Holy Land.

Book Review: Memorable Stories with a Message

This book was written by Boyd K Packer.  It is
One of my favorite stories draws upon his military experience “Follow the Bean.”  He explained that pilots during the war would follow a “beam;” a steady signal from the airport, that would let you know you were on course.  “If you moved to one side of the steady signal, it would break up to a ‘dit-da’ the Morse code for the letter A.  If you strayed to the other side of the signal, the beam would break up into a ‘da-dit,’ the Morse code signal for N.  In stormy weather there was always static and interference.  But the life of many a pilot has depended on his hearing, above the roar of the engines and through all the static and interference, that sometimes weak signal from a distant airfield.”
President Pack then draws this gospel analogy: There is a spiritual beam with a constant signal.  If you know how to pray and how to listen, spiritually listen, you may move through life—through clear weather, through storms, through wars, through peace—and be all right.”
May we all learn to take advantage of the spiritual beam, and draw upon the Spirit to guide us in the way we should go and the decisions we make.

a book of sixty short snippets from the discourses and writings of Boyd K Packer.  They cover a broad range of topics.  Some I have heard before during his conference talks.  He draws upon his military experience, experiences in the field of education, church work, and farm experiences to related many different stories.  He talks about his wife and her influence in their home, and ability to head of problems before they became problems, he gives advice to bishops and priesthood leaders on how to make a call using the Spirit “Call instead of Invite”, he talks about encouraging young people with a few words, and of how we are all important in Heavenly Father’s eyes.